ND crude output continues to rise

The North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources says state oil producers pumped an average of 660,322 barrels of oil each day in June, per a report the agency released Aug. 14.

That’s up from about 639,277 barrels a day in May and 609,503 in April, per DMR records.

There were 7,352 producing wells in June, as compared to 7,188, in May and 7,036 wells in April.

North Dakota drillers produced almost 20 million barrels of oil in June, up from 11.5 million barrels for the same month a year ago.

The state produced almost 34 percent more oil than Alaska in June, the fourth consecutive month that North Dakota out-produced the northernmost state, usurping Alaska’s position as the second largest oil producing state in the union.

Check out the full DMR report at https://www.dmr.nd.gov/oilgas/mpr/2012_06.pdf.

—Petroleum News Bakken