Top 50 Oil Producers In North Dakota -- As Of December, 2013

I can't recall if I've posted this before. Regardless here it is again at Petroleum News. When you get to the link, it's a PDF, scroll down to page 10. The "bopd" is from the linked source; the estimated acreage is the company's acreage in North Dakota only and comes from my "snapshot" page. Here are the numbers as of December, 2013 (there may be typographical errors; check the source if any questions)(the estimated acreage is from my data base and may be very, very wrong in some cases):

Company / bopd -- estimated net acreage in North Dakota Bakken

1. Hess: 82,108 -- 640,000
2. CLR: 74,332 -- 1.2 million
3. Whiting: 73,132  -- 685,000
4. EOG: 58,842 -- 580,000
5. XTO: 48,141 -- 600,000
6. MRO: 45,156 -- 370,000
7. Statoil: 43,797 -- 258,000 (378,000 in ND and MT)
8. Oasis: 37,981 -- 500,000 (may be slightly more/less; recently sold some non-core acreage)
9. KOG: 37,219 (will be acquired by Whiting by end of 2014) -- 183,0000
10. BR: 35,858 -- 620,000
11. QEP: 31,925 -- maybe 118,000
12. HRC (Halcon): 26,470 -- 131,000
13. WPX: 26,210 -- maybe 85,800
14. Slawson: 23,254 -- at one time reported to be about 100,000
15. SM Energy: 20,688 -- about 159,000
16. OXY USA: 16,864 -- ~ 300,000
17. Petro-Hunt: 16,176
18. Newfield: 14,024 -- hard to say; maybe 60K in ND Bakken; 40K in Elm Coulee (MT)
19. Enerplus: 12,020 -- 215,000 + (ND, MT, and Saskatchewan)
20. Fidelity (MDU): 11,200 -- 124,000 (ND, MT)
21. Hunt: 9,152
22. Murex: 7,298 --
23. Triangle: 7,201 -- 190,450
24. Zavanna: 6,800
25. Samson Resources: 6,503 -- no idea; sold 20,000 acres to Magnum Hunter; sold 120,000 acres to CLR
26. Baytex: 4,973 -- maybe 70,000 (had 126,000 acres prior to selling 50,000 acres to Magnum Hunter)
27. Sequel: 4,840 -- 65,000 (2011, company website)
28. Abraxas: 4,449 -- acreage in ND Bakken hard to determine; 21,000 back in 2011, but sold 13,500 net acres in 2013
29. American Eagle: 2,966 -- 11,000 perhaps
30. Crescent Point Energy: 2,414
31. Sinclair: 1,959
32. Emerald: 1,812 -- maybe around 70,000 net acres after acquiring 20,800 net acres in early 2014
33. Arsenal: 1,073
34. Denbury: 991 -- sold most of their Bakken position to XOM in 2012
35. Cornerstone: 804 -- maybe 89,000 net acres in ND (21,000 net acres in Sheridan County, MT)
36. True Oil: 767
37. Mountain Divide: 698
38. Armstrong Operating: 539
39. GMX Resources: 427 -- maybe 35,000 (2012 corporate presentation)
40. Bakken Hunter: 388 -- a subsidiary of Magnum Hunter; 97,000 (ND)
41. Gadeco: 249
42. Windsor Energy Group: 227
43. Rim Operating:  151
44. Resource Drilling: 147
45. Legacy Reserves Operating: 82
46. North Plains Energy: 81 -- sold to KOG some time ago; kept some wells?
47: SHD Oil & Gas: 75
48. Texakot: 46
49: Resolute Natural Resources: 44
50: Petro Harvester Operating: 19

Net North Dakota Bakken Acreage by Producer

Just a reminder.

This link provides a fairly quick look at net mineral acreage various producers have in the North Dakota Bakken.