October 2025

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in October 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 output1,178,548barrels a day0.5% above the month before · 0.4% below a year earlier

Wells reporting oil19,034plus 184 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld

Wells spudded80oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed87210 spacing and 62 pooling actions

Crude price$54.30a barrel, first purchase$66.98 a year earlier

Flared share of reported gas4.6%

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

Drilling

80 oil and gas wells have a spud date in October 2025 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Williams 39, McKenzie 27, Divide 11, Mountrail 3.

Hearings and orders

87 Industrial Commission orders signed in October 2025 are in the project's order index, with 210 spacing and 62 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (23), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (13), Koda Resources Operating, LLC (8). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

107 operators filed rows in the October 2025 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (2,738), Devon Energy Williston, L.L.C. (2,070), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (1,973), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (1,972), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (1,768).

The operator of record changed on 1 wells since their previous report. No single change covered five or more 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 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.