Bottineau, Westhope, Newburg: Madison and Spearfish waterflood country with no Bakken at all, where unit participation factors matter more than net mineral acres.
Bottineau County is not the Bakken and should never be valued as if it were. This is Madison Group and Spearfish country along the Manitoba border, waterflooded, shallow, and producing since the early 1960s when the county peaked. Roughly 396 wells still produce out of about 2,500 drilled, and the very low gas to oil ratio you see on the statements is diagnostic of these reservoirs.
The thing that actually decides value here is unitization. Large secondary recovery units, principally the Newburg Spearfish Charles Unit, mean revenue flows through a tract participation factor written into the unit agreement rather than through your raw net mineral acres. If a buyer quotes you a number based on acreage without reading the unit agreement, they have not valued your interest. We read it, and we show you how it works out.
J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge and Souris River floodplain easements add federal surface across parts of the county. The Turtle Mountain Reservation is in neighboring Rolette County rather than in Bottineau.
Send us a check stub or a division order and we will tell you which unit you are in, what your participation factor is doing, and what the interest is worth.
The Newburg Spearfish Charles Unit and the South Westhope and Landa fields. Shallow, waterflooded, and very long lived.
A horizontal Spearfish play ran here around 2011 to 2013, mirroring development across the Manitoba line at Waskada.
Wherever your tract sits in Bottineau County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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