March 2024

North Dakota's oil month in March 2024, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in March 2024. 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 output1,231,484barrels a day2.0% below the month before · 9.5% above a year earlier

Wells reporting oil18,313plus 99 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld

Wells spudded74oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed3752 spacing and 30 pooling actions

Crude price$74.37a barrel, first purchase$70.01 a year earlier

Flared share of reported gas5.0%

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks March 2024.

Drilling

74 oil and gas wells have a spud date in March 2024 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Mountrail 26, McKenzie 18, Dunn 10, Williams 9, Divide 6.

Hearings and orders

37 Industrial Commission orders signed in March 2024 are in the project's order index, with 52 spacing and 30 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Kraken Operating, LLC (11), Slawson Exploration Co., Inc. (9), Whiting Oil and Gas Corp. (6). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

107 operators filed rows in the March 2024 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (2,506), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (1,965), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (1,798), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (1,681), Grayson Mill Operating, LLC (1,249).

The operator of record changed on 89 wells since their previous report.

XTO Energy Inc to Oasis Petroleum North America LLC: 88 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 March 2024, 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.