February Highlights

A selection of the top news stories for the month...

February 28

ND pumps record 113M barrels of oil in 2010, easily beating 2009 record...state documents show a record 356,505 barrels was pumped daily in November, with nearly 10.7 million barrels produced for the month... http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/article_2d403290-435f-11e0-8bf9-001cc4c03286.html

February 19

Enbridge Plans to Expand North Dakota Bakken Pipeline by 15% http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-18/enbridge-plans-to-expand-north-dakota-bakken-pipeline-by-15-.html
 
February 17
 
Active rig count...end of day total 172...new record

February 16
 
AP Enterprise: ND oil boom outpaces oversight
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110216/ap_on_bi_ge/us_oil_oversight_north_dakota_2

February 11

New activity data released from ND Oil and Gas Division...

Nov Oil 10,695,153 barrels = 356,505 barrels/day
Dec Oil 10,659,867 barrels = 343,867 barrels/day (preliminary)

Nov Gas 10,693,372 MCF = 356,446 MCF/day
Dec Gas 10,601,691 MCF = 341,990 MCF/day (preliminary)

Nov Permitting: 245 drilling (0 shallow gas) and 2 seismic
Dec Permitting: 134 drilling (0 shallow gas) and 0 seismic

February 6

Billions of cracks; millions of barrels
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/article_22aed8c6-30b4-11e0-9609-001cc4c002e0.html

February 1

The first North Dakota mineral lease auction for 2011 was held today in Bismarck. Use the following link to review the results... http://www.land.nd.gov/data/minerals/getrcountyresults.asp