Plentywood, Medicine Lake, Westby: Madison and Red River stripper production in deep decline, and a tribal trust question that catches out of state owners off guard.
Sheridan County is in the far northeast corner of Montana against both the Saskatchewan and North Dakota lines, and it is a legacy conventional county in deep decline. The Madison, Charles, and Ratcliffe play that peaked here in 1986 at 3.4 million barrels ran about 380,000 barrels in 2025. Roughly 55 wells produce across 51 leases. There are no permits and no new drilling.
The Bakken is present on the shelf here but it is thin and thermally immature and is not a commercial horizontal target. We say that plainly because the Bakken name gets attached to a lot of northeastern Montana acreage that will never see a horizontal well.
Two trust land issues matter. The northeast corner of the Fort Peck Reservation extends into Sheridan County. And separately, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa holds off reservation trust parcels here, which surprises people because the band's reservation is across the line in Rolette County, North Dakota. Trust status determines whether an interest can be conveyed at all, so it gets established before price. Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge adds federal surface.
We buy small stripper interests with no minimum and pay all closing costs. If money is sitting in operator suspense we will tell you how to claim it and you keep it, whether or not you sell.
The 1980s play that carried this county, now deep into decline.
Deeper conventional pays across the northeastern shelf.
Present on the far northeastern shelf but thin and thermally immature. Not a commercial horizontal target here.
Wherever your tract sits in Sheridan County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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