June 2022

North Dakota's oil month in June 2022, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in June 2022. 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 output1,097,967barrels a day3.5% above the month before · 3.2% below a year earlier

Wells reporting oil16,746plus 86 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld

Wells spudded93oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed1543 spacing and 2 pooling actions

Crude price$111.86a barrel, first purchase$66.52 a year earlier

Flared share of reported gas5.8%

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks June 2022.

What stood out

The operator of record changed from QEP Energy Company to Oasis Petroleum North America LLC on 403 wells.
The operator of record changed from Ovintiv Production Inc. to Ovintiv USA Inc. on 331 wells.
The operator of record changed from Resource Energy Can-Am LLC to Formentera Operations, LLC on 217 wells.

Drilling

93 oil and gas wells have a spud date in June 2022 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 31, Williams 22, Dunn 20, McKenzie 19, Divide 1.

Hearings and orders

15 Industrial Commission orders signed in June 2022 are in the project's order index, with 43 spacing and 2 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Continental Resources, Inc. (6), Enerplus Resources (USA) Corporation (2), Rimrock Oil & Gas Williston LLC (2). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

114 operators filed rows in the June 2022 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (2,131), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (1,886), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (1,658), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (1,503), XTO Energy Inc (1,078).

The operator of record changed on 1,111 wells since their previous report.

QEP Energy Company to Oasis Petroleum North America LLC: 403 wells
Ovintiv Production Inc. to Ovintiv USA Inc.: 331 wells
Resource Energy Can-Am LLC to Formentera Operations, LLC: 217 wells
Enerplus Resources USA Corporation to Emep Operating, LLC: 62 wells
Rampart Energy Company to Stephens Williston, LLC Dba Seg Williston, LLC: 48 wells
SHD Oil & Gas, LLC to Spotted Hawk Development, LLC: 18 wells
Southwestern Production Corp. to Northwestern Production LLC: 13 wells
EOG Resources, Inc. to Prima Exploration, Inc.: 7 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 2022, 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.