June 2018

North Dakota's oil month in June 2018, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in June 2018. 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 output1,231,133barrels a day1.3% below the month before · 19.2% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil14,285plus 149 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld

Wells spudded89oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed52102 spacing and 34 pooling actions

Crude price$63.01a barrel, first purchase$40.62 a year earlier

Flared share of reported gas16.7%

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks June 2018.

What stood out

The operator of record changed from SM Energy Company to Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. on 227 wells.

Drilling

89 oil and gas wells have a spud date in June 2018 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Williams 30, McKenzie 28, Mountrail 16, Dunn 7, Billings 3.

Hearings and orders

52 Industrial Commission orders signed in June 2018 are in the project's order index, with 102 spacing and 34 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Enerplus Resources (USA) Corp. (7), Whiting Oil and Gas Corp. (6), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (5). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

140 operators filed rows in the June 2018 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (1,606), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (1,539), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (1,459), XTO Energy Inc (973), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (964).

The operator of record changed on 287 wells since their previous report.

SM Energy Company to Petro-Hunt, L.L.C.: 227 wells
Vanguard Operating LLC to White Rock Oil & Gas, LLC: 48 wells
Lime Rock Resources III-A, L.P. to P.o. & G. Operating, 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 2018, 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.