Oil and gas field · McKenzie County, North Dakota, United States

Banks

Banks is an oil and gas field in McKenzie County, North Dakota, United States, with 13,458 boe/day of production in 2013.

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Facts

Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.

Fact	Value	Source
Name in the source	BANKS	North Dakota DMR · Restricted · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	McKenzie County	EIA Oil and Gas Field Code Master List · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Available on request	North Dakota DMR · Restricted · checked 24 Oct 2026
Commodities	Available on request	North Dakota DMR · Restricted · checked 24 Oct 2026
Discovered	1982	EIA Oil and Gas Field Code Master List · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Onshore or offshore	Available on request	North Dakota DMR · Restricted · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Available on request	North Dakota DMR · Restricted · checked 24 Oct 2026
Production	13,458 boe/day (13,458 barrels of oil a day, no. 33 of EIA's top 100 US oil fields, oil and condensate only, gas not ranked, in 2013)	EIA Top 100 U.S. Oil and Gas Fields · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	48.0106, -103.2599	EIA Oil and Gas Field Code Master List · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares by production

Banks is the 8th-largest of 19 oil and gas fields in North Dakota and the 145th-largest of 319 in the United States by production, with 13,458 boe/day in 2013. Ranks and totals cover the oil and gas fields in our data that report their production, not every one in existence.

Within	Rank
North Dakota	8th of 19
United States	145th of 319

Nearby

Within 50 km of this oil and gas field: 1 power plant and 1 data center, measured from the coordinates in the facts above.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Bison Generation Station	Power plant	1,518 MW	Planned	36 km
Atlas Powr Williston Datacenter	Data center	—	—	41 km

Place

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Data on this page

BSEE Data Center. BSEE Data Center, Public domain.
Colorado ECMC (formerly COGCC). Colorado ECMC (formerly COGCC), Free reuse.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Feb 2016). EIA Oil and Gas Field Code Master List, Public domain.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Apr 2015). EIA Top 100 U.S. Oil and Gas Fields, Public domain.
North Dakota DMR. North Dakota DMR, Restricted.