October 2024

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in October 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 output1,183,000barrels a day1.8% below the month before · 5.9% below a year earlier

Wells reporting oil18,673plus 185 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld

Wells spudded119oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed99125 spacing and 82 pooling actions

Crude price$66.98a barrel, first purchase$81.04 a year earlier

Flared share of reported gas4.9%

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

Drilling

119 oil and gas wells have a spud date in October 2024 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 40, Williams 31, Dunn 29, Mountrail 16, Divide 3.

Hearings and orders

99 Industrial Commission orders signed in October 2024 are in the project's order index, with 125 spacing and 82 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Marathon Oil Co. (21), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (20), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (8). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

103 operators filed rows in the October 2024 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (2,604), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (1,968), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (1,877), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (1,716), Grayson Mill Operating, LLC (1,289).

The operator of record changed on 103 wells since their previous report.

Emep Operating, LLC to Morningstar Operating LLC: 62 wells
Kaiser-Francis Oil Company to Morningstar Operating LLC: 41 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 October 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.