February 2019

North Dakota's oil month in February 2019, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in February 2019. 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 output1,336,679barrels a day4.8% below the month before · 13.7% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil14,628plus 136 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld

Wells spudded85oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed3489 spacing and 14 pooling actions

Crude price$51.76a barrel, first purchase$59.65 a year earlier

Flared share of reported gas19.3%

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks February 2019.

What stood out

The operator of record changed from Crescent Point Energy U.S. Corp. to Ballantyne Oil, LLC on 130 wells.

Drilling

85 oil and gas wells have a spud date in February 2019 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 39, Mountrail 18, Williams 16, Dunn 9, Burke 2.

Hearings and orders

34 Industrial Commission orders signed in February 2019 are in the project's order index, with 89 spacing and 14 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Whiting Oil and Gas Corp. (8), Continental Resources, Inc. (5), Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Co. LP, (4). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

135 operators filed rows in the February 2019 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (1,741), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (1,587), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (1,549), XTO Energy Inc (995), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (986).

The operator of record changed on 145 wells since their previous report.

Crescent Point Energy U.S. Corp. to Ballantyne Oil, LLC: 130 wells
BTA Oil Producers, LLC to NP Resources, LLC: 12 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 February 2019, 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.