Where We Buy · North Dakota · Divide County

Sell your Divide County mineral rights.

Crosby, Fortuna, Noonan: the one Bakken fringe county in North Dakota with a real ongoing drilling program, and about a quarter of the state's rigs.

Divide County sits in the far northwest corner of North Dakota against the Saskatchewan and Montana lines. The Bakken here is on the basin margin, thinner and shallower than the core, and for years that meant Divide was written off. It is not being written off now: Koda Resources and Phoenix Operating have been running the most concentrated drilling program of any fringe county in the state, and recent permits have been almost entirely theirs.

Divide has no tribal lands, which simplifies title relative to the core counties. What it does have is homestead era patenting from the 1900s and 1910s, which produced a great many 160 and 320 acre tracts that four and five generations of inheritance have divided into very small pieces. We buy those, including the small ones, and we pay for the curative work.

Whatever you own here, producing royalties, non-producing acreage, or an inherited fraction nobody has probated, we will identify it from whatever paperwork exists, tell you whether the twenty year clock is a problem, value it off the actual wells and the remaining locations, and show you the reasoning. Free, and if keeping it is the right answer we will say so.

Formations & Plays

What produces here

Bakken and Three Forks

Far northwest basin margin: shallower, thinner, and lower pressure than the McKenzie and Mountrail core, but genuinely economic, which is why the rigs are here.

Madison

Scattered legacy conventional production across the county.

Counties

Communities we see in Divide County title

Crosby Fortuna Noonan Ambrose Alamo

Wherever your tract sits in Divide County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.

Questions

Straight answers for Divide County owners

Is Divide County still being drilled?
Yes, and it is the exception among North Dakota's fringe counties. Divide has carried roughly a quarter of the entire state rig count in recent counts, with Koda Resources and Phoenix Operating running the active programs and dozens of recent permits between them. Hunt, Continental, Chord, Petro-Hunt, and about two dozen other operators carry existing production. Roughly 856 wells are producing out of about 1,900 drilled.
Is Divide County Bakken as valuable as McKenzie or Mountrail?
No, and any buyer who prices it the same is not doing the work. The Bakken here is on the basin margin, so wells are shallower and less productive than in the core. What Divide has that most fringe counties do not is active drilling, which means undrilled locations on your spacing unit carry real rather than theoretical value. We price the existing production and the remaining locations separately and show you both.
Do I need to worry about the twenty year abandonment statute here?
Yes, in Divide as everywhere in North Dakota. Under N.D.C.C. chapter 38-18.1 a mineral interest unused for 20 years can be deemed abandoned and taken by the surface owner. Divide was homesteaded in the 1900s and 1910s in 160 and 320 acre tracts that have fractionated across four and five generations, so there are a lot of interests here that have had nothing recorded against them in a very long time. A statement of claim under section 38-18.1-04 preserves the interest for the cost of a recording fee.
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