February 2025

North Dakota's oil month in February 2025, from the public record.

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in February 2025. 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 output1,165,214barrels a day1.5% below the month before · 7.2% below a year earlier

Wells reporting oil18,148plus 158 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld

Wells spudded53oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed3763 spacing and 31 pooling actions

Crude price$65.04a barrel, first purchase$69.95 a year earlier

Flared share of reported gas5.0%

Oil output, January 2003 to August 2026; the dot marks February 2025.

Drilling

53 oil and gas wells have a spud date in February 2025 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: McKenzie 23, Williams 19, Mountrail 6, Dunn 5.

Hearings and orders

37 Industrial Commission orders signed in February 2025 are in the project's order index, with 63 spacing and 31 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Hunt Oil Co. (8), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (6), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (5). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

104 operators filed rows in the February 2025 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (2,624), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (1,964), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (1,885), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (1,727), Grayson Mill Operating, LLC (1,302).

The operator of record changed on 8 wells since their previous report.

Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC to Hunt Oil Company: 6 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 February 2025, 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.