North Dakota has published January production data for the Bakken and for all North Dakota . Bakken production was up 37,617 bpd to 932,817 bpd while all North Dakota’s production was up 37,972 to 980,294 bpd. Bakken bpd per well was up 3 to 86 while the average bpd per well for all North Dakota wells was up 4 to 76. The North Dakota stats have “Wells Producing” dropping by 189 in December and dropping another 35 in January for a total decline of 224 over the two months. The total number of producing wells in North Dakota in January stood at 12,976. You will notice these numbers differ quite a bit from Lynn Helms’ numbers below. I have no explanation for this. From the Director’s Cut : Oil Production December 29,211,993 barrels = 942,322 barrels/day January 30,389,117 barrels = 980,294 barrels/day(preliminary) (all-time high was Dec 2014 at 1,227,483 […]