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.
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.
Scattered legacy conventional production across the county.
Wherever your tract sits in Divide 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.