November 2025

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

Written on November 8, 2026, looking back. This issue was not published in November 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 output1,199,000barrels a day1.7% above the month before · 2.4% below a year earlier

Wells reporting oil18,857plus 169 confidential wells whose volumes are withheld

Wells spudded71oil and gas wells, by spud date

Orders signed24110 spacing and 11 pooling actions

Crude price$53.85a barrel, first purchase$64.49 a year earlier

Flared share of reported gas4.2%

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

What stood out

The operator of record changed from Zavanna, LLC to Zavanna Energy Operating, LLC on 168 wells.

Drilling

71 oil and gas wells have a spud date in November 2025 in the state's wells layer of November 6, 2026. By county: Williams 29, McKenzie 25, Dunn 9, Mountrail 8.

Hearings and orders

24 Industrial Commission orders signed in November 2025 are in the project's order index, with 110 spacing and 11 pooling actions on spacing units. Most frequent applicants: Continental Resources, Inc. (9), Phoenix Operating LLC (4), EOG Resources, Inc. (3). The facts are machine-extracted from the signed orders and not individually reviewed.

Operators

106 operators filed rows in the November 2025 report. Most wells reported: Continental Resources, Inc. (2,749), Devon Energy Williston, L.L.C. (2,077), Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC (1,981), Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation (1,972), Oasis Petroleum North America LLC (1,770).

The operator of record changed on 181 wells since their previous report.

Zavanna, LLC to Zavanna Energy Operating, LLC: 168 wells
FH Petroleum Corp. to Acp Energy Corporation: 8 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 November 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.