August 2019

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in August 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 output1,481,129barrels a day2.4% above the month before · 14.4% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil15,429plus 194 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld

Wells spudded120oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed5855 spacing and 38 pooling actions

Crude price$50.61a barrel, first purchase$65.31 a year earlier

Flared share of reported gas19.0%

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

Drilling

120 oil and gas wells have a spud date in August 2019 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 36, Dunn 29, Mountrail 26, Williams 24, Burke 5.

Hearings and orders

58 Industrial Commission orders signed in August 2019 are in the project's order index, with 55 spacing and 38 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Whiting Oil and Gas Corp. (19), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (7), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (6). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

133 operators filed rows in the August 2019 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (1,807), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (1,671), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (1,608), XTO Energy Inc (1,034), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (1,028).

The operator of record changed on 5 wells since their previous report.

QEP Energy Company to Slawson Exploration Company, Inc.: 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 August 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.