Scobey, Flaxville, Peerless: one producing well in the whole county, which makes this a leasing and acreage question rather than a royalty question.
Daniels County is the quietest county we have a page for, and we wrote it anyway because owners here get almost no straight information. There is one producing well in the entire county against 172 drilled, producing around 600 barrels in a recent month, and county production peaked in 1994. There is essentially no drilling and no operator presence beyond a single company.
That means value here is acreage value, not royalty value. If your family holds Daniels County minerals, what you own is the possibility of a future lease bonus rather than a producing asset, and any honest offer should be underwritten as raw acreage. We will give you that number with the reasoning, and if we think you should simply hold it because holding costs you nothing, we will say so.
Two things are worth knowing. The northwestern portion of the Fort Peck Reservation extends into Daniels County, so trust versus fee has to be established before anything else. And Montana has no dormant mineral act, so unlike neighboring North Dakota, your interest cannot lapse for nonuse no matter how many decades it sits untouched. That is genuinely good news for a family holding old northern Montana minerals.
Send us a legal description or just a family name and a township. We will run the records and tell you what is there, free, whether or not there is a transaction in it.
Shallow northern shelf targets that have all been tested here over the decades.
No public record supports a commercial horizontal play in Daniels County.
Wherever your tract sits in Daniels County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
Free, no obligation, and no pressure. We reply within one business day, usually faster.
Prefer the phone? Call or text 918-984-1645 and you will get Stephen, the owner, not a call center. If we miss you, we text back the same day.