June 2017

North Dakota's oil month in June 2017, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in June 2017. 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 output1,032,900barrels a day0.7% below the month before · 0.5% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil13,440plus 111 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld

Wells spudded117oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed1698 spacing and 2 pooling actions

Crude price$40.62a barrel, first purchase$42.80 a year earlier

Flared share of reported gas11.8%

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks June 2017.

Drilling

117 oil and gas wells have a spud date in June 2017 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 54, Dunn 21, Williams 18, Mountrail 17, Billings 4.

Hearings and orders

16 Industrial Commission orders signed in June 2017 are in the project's order index, with 98 spacing and 2 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Kraken Oil & Gas, LLC (5), QEP Energy Co. (3), SHD Oil & Gas, LLC (3). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

141 operators filed rows in the June 2017 report. Most wells reported: Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (1,483), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (1,474), Continental Resources, Inc. (1,446), XTO Energy Inc (919), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (886).

The operator of record changed on 25 wells since their previous report.

Hunt Oil Company to Iron Oil Operating, LLC: 20 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 2017, 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.