June 2016

North Dakota's oil month in June 2016, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in June 2016. 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 output1,027,367barrels a day1.9% below the month before · 14.7% below a year earlier

Wells reporting oil12,843plus 58 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld

Wells spudded46oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed917 spacing and 0 pooling actions

Crude price$42.80a barrel, first purchase$53.41 a year earlier

Flared share of reported gas10.2%

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks June 2016.

Drilling

46 oil and gas wells have a spud date in June 2016 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 23, Dunn 11, Mountrail 7, Williams 4, Divide 1.

Hearings and orders

9 Industrial Commission orders signed in June 2016 are in the project's order index, with 17 spacing and 0 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Marathon Oil Co. (4), Continental Resources, Inc. (3), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (1). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

144 operators filed rows in the June 2016 report. Most wells reported: Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (1,438), Continental Resources, Inc. (1,436), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (1,395), XTO Energy Inc (862), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (684).

The operator of record changed on 87 wells since their previous report.

Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation to Foundation Energy Management, LLC: 78 wells
Jayhawk Energy, Inc. to Vast Operations, LLC: 5 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 June 2016, 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.