North Dakota stripper well tax break more generous than ‘historic norm’

By: Jacob Orledge

Outlets: North Dakota Monitor

Published: October 13, 2026

Words: 1,366

Last Updated: 4 days, 22 hours ago

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This is the second in a two-part series supported by a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. Read the first installment here.

More than one-third of North Dakota’s stripper wells that are exempt from half of the state’s oil tax would not qualify for that status in other major oil-producing states.

That’s because North Dakota defines a stripper well differently than those states do. North …

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