Top 40 Producers in North Dakota, by Production -- 2009

Oil, gas, and water statistics are available but I am only including the barrels of oil (in millions of barrels):

• EOG: 13.039
• BR:10.674
• CLR: 8.185
• WLL: 6.760
• HES: 6.606
• MRO: 4.065
• Encore: 3.068
• Slawson: 1.923
• Murex: 1.921
• XTO: 1.912
• Hunt: 1.895
• Petro-Hunt: 1.886
• SM: 1.702
• Fidelity: 1.160
• Zenergy: 0.812
• Newfield: 0.666
• BTA: 0.664
• BEXP: 0.601
• Sagebrush: 0.510
• Tracker: 0.510
• Oasis: 0.471
• Citation: 0.465
• Luff: 0.404
• Peak: 0.357
• Encore Energy Partners: 0.351
• Eagle: 0.344
• KOG: 0.334
• Anschutz: 0.328
• Summit: 0.319
• Samson Resources: 0.287
• Zargon: 0.275
• Sinclair: 0.244
• Helis: 0.241
• True: 0.226
• Ward-Williston: 0.221
• COP: 0.214
• Prima: 0.213
• Berenergy: 0.199
• G3: 0.186
• Armstrong: 0.163

It will be interesting to see what the 2010 results will be. I was surprised not to see Zavanna on the top 40 list. I assume Oasis will move up significantly in 2010. I was surprised to see how far down BEXP was on this list, but I expect it to move up in 2010. BR is owned by COP. EOG has overtaken BR for the top spot (in 2009); it was not long ago that BR was #1 on the list. It's amazing how fast the production drops once you get past the top five or six producers.

The list comes from the Rocky Mountain Oil Journal.