The Bakken production data published by North Dakota is out with October production data. ND Monthly Bakken Oil Production Statistics (Bakken Only) and ND Monthly Oil Production Statistics (All North Dakota) . The below chart is North Dakota Bakken barrels per day and All North Dakota Barrels per day. As you can see it’s mostly Bakken and very little “the rest of North Dakota. Bakken Barrels Per Day It looks like there is a pattern developing. I charted the month to month percent change in the chart below with a line indicating a possible trend. Bakken Percent Change Basically I think you can ignore everything before July 2011. That is because that was the month the surge started, additional wells almost tripled that month and Bakken production has tripled since that date. From the Director’s Cut : The drilling rig count was unchanged from Sep to Oct […]