November 2015

North Dakota's oil month in November 2015, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in November 2015. It is assembled now from today's public records, with what was known later, so that every month since January 2003 has an issue.

The month in numbers

Oil output1,174,200barrels a day0.7% above the month before · 0.4% below a year earlier

Wells reporting oil12,613plus 107 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld

Wells spudded95oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed68354 spacing and 25 pooling actions

Crude price$36.98a barrel, first purchase$67.26 a year earlier

Flared share of reported gas15.0%

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks November 2015.

Drilling

95 oil and gas wells have a spud date in November 2015 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 48, Mountrail 24, Dunn 15, Burke 2, Divide 2.

Hearings and orders

68 Industrial Commission orders signed in November 2015 are in the project's order index, with 354 spacing and 25 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Continental Resources, Inc. (19), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC, (8), XTO Energy Inc. (8). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

150 operators filed rows in the November 2015 report. Most wells reported: Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (1,582), Continental Resources, Inc. (1,432), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (1,371), XTO Energy Inc (814), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (725).

The operator of record changed on 54 wells since their previous report.

American Eagle Energy Corporation to Resource Energy Can-Am LLC: 54 wells

A change of operator of record is what the reports show; it does not say why. Sales, mergers, renamed legal entities and new contract operators all look the same. Names are as the reports spell them.

Sources

Oil output and price: U.S. Energy Information Administration, monthly state series (public domain), as published today.
Wells reporting, withheld wells, operators and flared gas: the free NDIC Monthly Production Reports for November 2015, as first reported (workbook).
Spud dates: the DMR GIS wells layer of November 6, 2026.
Orders: the project's index of signed NDIC orders (facts only; see the well index).

Not an official record of the State of North Dakota. Not engineering, investment or legal advice. Every figure is in the archive data file.