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Bakken prairie in the Williston Basin at dusk, a North Dakota section-line road running toward a distant oil well pad

Williston Basin · Bakken & Three Forks

We buy Bakken minerals.

Cash offers on mineral and royalty interests in North Dakota and eastern Montana. Underwritten from the runsheet. We pay to close.

14

Bakken counties we buy in

21–45

Days, typical close

0

Seller closing costs

What we buy

Minerals, royalties, and the interests people forget they own.

Bakken mineral rights

Fee minerals, leased or open. We price the lease, the royalty, and remaining Middle Bakken and Three Forks locations.

Royalty interests

Producing Bakken royalties and held-by-production acres. Checks in the mail still count.

NPRI & ORRI

Non-participating and overriding royalties. We read the reservation before we send a number.

Title first

We do not price a tract we have not read.

Fort Union is a Bakken buyer, not a national mailer. Offers come from the abstract, the spacing order, and the well file — not a county average emailed to every name on a tax roll.

Heirs, trusts, and split minerals are ordinary work here. If the chain is messy, say so. We will tell you whether we can close it.

How a buy works
Landman desk with a township plat map and mineral title abstracts used to underwrite Bakken mineral rights

Process

Four steps. One wire.

01

Send the tract

County, legal, and whatever you have on net acres.

02

We run the file

Title, type curves, spacing, and the operator’s remaining inventory.

03

Written offer

A cash number you can take to counsel. No broker cut.

04

We pay to close

Deed, tax pro-ration, and recording — on us. Wire on funding.

Coverage

The core Bakken, and the counties next to it.

McKenzie, Mountrail, Williams, Dunn, and Richland first. Then the rest of the producing Williston Basin in North Dakota and eastern Montana.

North Dakota · Core

McKenzie County mineral rights

Highest oil output in the country. Heart of the Middle Bakken and Three Forks along the Nesson Anticline.

North Dakota · Core

Mountrail County

Parshall Field and a thick, over-pressured Bakken. Long-lateral inventory still being drilled.

North Dakota · Core

Williams County

Williston and Tioga. Deep infrastructure, stacked pay, and a mature operator set.

North Dakota · Core

Dunn County

South-central core. Strong EURs from both the Middle Bakken and upper Three Forks benches.

Montana · Core

Richland County

Sidney and the Elm Coulee heritage. The Montana side of the core Bakken.

All fourteen counties

If the minerals sit in the Bakken, send the legal.

Producing or not. One section or a scattered estate. We will tell you if we can buy it.

Request a written offer