November 2023

North Dakota's oil month in November 2023, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in November 2023. 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 output1,282,767barrels a day2.0% above the month before · 16.7% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil18,157plus 133 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld

Wells spudded71oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed31109 spacing and 9 pooling actions

Crude price$72.81a barrel, first purchase$82.09 a year earlier

Flared share of reported gas5.4%

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks November 2023.

Drilling

71 oil and gas wells have a spud date in November 2023 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 25, Williams 22, Dunn 14, Mountrail 4, Divide 3.

Hearings and orders

31 Industrial Commission orders signed in November 2023 are in the project's order index, with 109 spacing and 9 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Grayson Mill Operating, LLC (8), Continental Resources, Inc. (7), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (4). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

109 operators filed rows in the November 2023 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (2,451), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (1,960), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (1,764), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (1,565), Grayson Mill Operating, LLC (1,220).

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 November 2023, 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.