McKenzie County
CoreHighest oil output in the country. Heart of the Middle Bakken and Three Forks along the Nesson Anticline.
Williston Basin
We buy in the Bakken. That is the whole map.
Fort Union does not shop twenty basins. Offers are written on Middle Bakken and Three Forks minerals and royalties in North Dakota and eastern Montana — priced from the well file, not a flyer.
Why Bakken mineral rights still matter
The Bakken is a self-sourced tight-oil system. Light, sweet crude. Horizontal laterals at roughly 9,000 to 11,000 feet in the core. Remaining value is in producing decimals, held minerals, and leftover locations in existing spacing units.
Operators in the play include Chord Energy, Continental Resources, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Devon. We underwrite the operator as carefully as the geology.
The Bakken and Three Forks stack we price
Upper Bakken
Organic-rich shale. Source rock and seal, typically 5–25 feet.
Middle Bakken
Primary horizontal target. Siltstone, dolomite, and sandstone, 10–50 feet in the core.
Lower Bakken
Second source shale. Helps charge both the Middle Bakken and Three Forks.
Three Forks
Devonian benches beneath the Bakken. Upper bench is the workhorse; we price remaining locations by unit.
North Dakota Bakken counties
Mountrail County
CoreParshall Field and a thick, over-pressured Bakken. Long-lateral inventory still being drilled.
Williams County
CoreWilliston and Tioga. Deep infrastructure, stacked pay, and a mature operator set.
Dunn County
CoreSouth-central core. Strong EURs from both the Middle Bakken and upper Three Forks benches.
Divide County
ActiveNorthern flank. Mix of producing units and undeveloped minerals we still underwrite.
Burke County
ActiveNorthwest extension. We buy producing royalties and non-producing minerals by the tract.
Billings County
ActiveSouthwestern depositional edge. Selective buying where the Bakken still has reservoir quality.
McLean County
ActiveEastern extension. Offers depend on spacing, operator, and remaining locations.
Stark County
ActiveDickinson area. We review producing and non-producing interests case by case.
Golden Valley County
ActiveFar southwest. Thin Bakken, priced from the actual well file — not a county average.
Montana Bakken counties
Richland County
CoreSidney and the Elm Coulee heritage. The Montana side of the core Bakken.
Roosevelt County
ActiveFort Peck and surrounding townships. Minerals and royalties, producing or not.
Sheridan County
ActiveNortheast Montana. We buy where title is clean and the geology still works.
Dawson County
ActiveGlendive area. Selective offers on held-by-production and undeveloped tracts.
Have a legal in one of these counties?
Send it. If we cannot buy the tract, we will say so.