Glendive, Richey, Lindsay: a Bakken fringe that was tested and largely failed, over a Red River base, with a Northern Pacific checkerboard running through the middle.
Dawson County is honest about what it is: a quiet county with a Bakken story that did not pan out. The fringe around Richey was tested horizontally in 2012 to 2014, oil peaked at about 847,000 barrels in 2013, and it collapsed afterward. Today roughly 5 wells produce across 4 leases out of 368 drilled, with about 1,600 barrels and 607 Mcf in a recent month for the whole county. Four operators remain.
We will not build you a story around that. If you own here, the realistic question is whether your acreage carries option value from future leasing rather than what your production is worth, and we will price it on that basis and show you the reasoning. Sometimes that number is small enough that the honest answer is to keep it.
The defining title feature is the Northern Pacific land grant. The mainline runs through Glendive, so odd numbered sections were patented to the railroad with minerals reserved, and those reserved estates now sit with successor royalty and mineral companies rather than with families. The Yellowstone River crosses the county, raising riverbed and accretion questions on riparian tracts, and there is substantial BLM and state trust acreage south of the river. There are no reservation lands.
Montana has no dormant mineral act, so whatever your family reserved here is still yours regardless of how long it has sat. Send us a legal description and we will tell you what is under it.
The county's most durable conventional pay.
A fringe around Richey that was tested horizontally in 2012 to 2014 and largely did not work.
An older shallow gas base that peaked in the late 1990s.
Wherever your tract sits in Dawson 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.