Check out this pump working away to bring oil to the surface so you can drive your car. Shaky photography courtesy of James Ulvog.
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Preliminary production data for the state is 1,039,635 barrels per day average in May 2014. That will be revised up a smidgen over the next two months.
At the average price for the month provided in the Director’ Cut report of $88.31 for 32.2M barrels, that is an economic output of $2.84 billion for the month. Very cool.
Here’s a few graphs:
Monthly production since 2008:
Two more –
Monthly production since 1990:
Total barrels of oil given to boost the U.S. economy from North Dakota:
Increase in May was 3.6% over revised April. The increase in April was 2.8%.
Should be full steam ahead until the winter weather kicks in. Six months of 2% per month would put November production at 1.17M bopd. A 2.5% monthly increase would be 1.21M bopd in November.
Carpe Diem says May was another record-setting month for North Dakota oil as the state’s daily output topped 1M bbls. for second month. Also points out for ten months in a row, North Dakota has provided over one-eighth of all U.S. production.