Can someone help me with what wells i have interest inin. In mountrail county nd.
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You would need to give a description of your location in section, township and range. Then we can help. I moved your question to the Mountrail County topic area.
158 94 1,12 ,13 ,24
158 93 6,7,18,17
You can look up the wells on the North Dakota website. Here are screenshots of the two townships with the wells. You can see that wells are often spud in one section and go for a section or two. More info can be found on the main NDIC website. https://gis.dmr.nd.gov.
158 94 1,12 ,13 ,24
158 93 6,7,18,17
If you have a specific question, we may be able to point you in the right direction.
Whats the pooling on file 33712 and 40101
What im asking is storsul c and the federals 1 and 2 . Since i have leased sections 17 and 18 with SH Would i get royalties from those wells.
I would say that 17 is a part of all the storsul wells the c, 1mbh,2mbh,10mbh. Ive found where it say comgloberated, (lol) all in section 17. Is it a stand up unit? Is everything over lapped? Is 16 spaced with section 17. Is section 20 spaced with 17? Why is it so hard to find the answers ? And i did try and get the answers from ndic. Ive been twittling my thumbs waiting. I even called back 2x. Wating over a month now. Im not even jumping on the deduction train. I just am trying to find out what wells i have an interest in. Do i in haley? Kaitlyn,nvc,rice,etc. Is it normal to be ignored? Is it normal for their landman to never give you the answers to your questions?
the morgen (sections 17 and 20) and paige (sections 18 and 19) are 2 laydown drilling spacing units. (standup drilling spacing unit is 2 miles north to south and 1 mile east to west, laydown drilling spacing unit is 1 mile north to south and 2 miles east to west. they do this because the lateral is best situated perpendicular to the underground fault line.) the mollet well was in sections 19 and 20. when they reconfigured these drilling spacing units to standup drilling spacing units, the bottom section was added to each. so the morgen ended up in sections 17, 20, and 19 and the paige ended up in sections 18, 19 and 20. while the storsul has a wellhead in section 17, the lateral goes north, into the storsul section.
you likely receive royalties from the morgen and paige drilling spacing units but not the storsul, because the storsul lateral is designed to pull oil outside of your drilling spacing unit.
then they took a percentage of your net mineral acres in each drilling spacing unit to “normalize” the drilling spacing unit to 1,280 acres. they use this percentage to calculate your royalties.
then they joined the morgen and the paige for a boundary well. they performed a similar calculation: net mineral acres / joined morgen and paige drilling spacing unit. they normalized this percentage to 2,560 acres and use this to calculate your royalty.
you can contact silver hill energy if you have any questions. our family has interests in these 2 drilling spacing units. i had the same questions that you had, at one time.
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you could contact the ombudsman: Surface and Mineral Owners Information | Department of Mineral Resources, North Dakota
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become familiar with the ND mineral resources website. see the GIS map server. it is sort of user-friendly, once you learn how to use it. Oil and Gas Division | Department of Mineral Resources, North Dakota
look at the information center, recent presentations. they are all different but provide basic information.
- morgen and paige drilling spacing units are stand up units.
paige is yellow highlight.
morgen is green highlight.
storsul is orange highlight.
the ecopad to the north have laterals into the storsul, the morgen and the paige. the ecopad to the south has 1 well into the paige and 1 well into the morgen. they are separate wells. i think these wells may be spaced 50-100 feet from one wellhead to another on the same ecopad.
township border is bold black. red lines are oilfield lines. you are in the east tioga oilfield, mountrail county.
kaitlyn and haley are south of the morgen and paige wells. rice is in the next township well to the west. you get paid only on the morgen and paige well, given the sections you posted. you do not get paid on any of the other wells you listed. future wells in the paige will start with “paige” and future wells in the morgen will start with “morgen”.
you have to understand the way companies view inquiries from the public. it is tax document time. they are busy. answering questions from royalty owners are a cost to the companies, answering questions from royalty owners doesn’t increase revenues. often the data entry operator is stuck answering questions.
ask the department of mineral resources for exhibits from cases 40098 and 40115 from the hearing docket.
Email: oilandgasinfo@nd.gov
those will tell you more information. google any terms or abbreviations you don’t understand. EUR= Estimated Ultimate Recovery (EUR): What it is, How it Works
i put in oil EUR to find this.
- here is a 2024 picture of the rig drilling the morgen.
nabors B23.
- you should be getting paid on the morgen and paige wells now. if you are not, your title might need some work. find out why you are not getting paid and then you can address it. sometimes people inherit mineral rights but have not cleared the title to be able to be paid. one of the fastest methods to find out if there is a problem is to request the title to the mineral rights (giving township, range, sections) from the land records of the county. mountrail county Recorder's Office - Mountrail County
stay well.
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Thank you for taking the time to break it down and explain. I appreciate it so much. One last question. If the pooling order has section17 in it then it is part of the unit for that well and royalties are paid out from that?? And what is this over lapping of units that started happening, is it because of the depth. And then the deduction train , i understand costs, but how can expenses be deducted with out checks and balances inregards to not over exagerating the pencil pushing? I do thank you a million times over for taking the time to answer questions.
You always got a friend in montana. 
Can i pm you inregards to the 94 side, i would like to ask a few more questions if u dont mind
yes, if the pooling order has section 17 in it, then it is part of that unit for the wells named “morgen” and “paige”. but i don’t know if they had a pooling order. overlapping units join 1 drilling spacing unit (like morgen) with another drilling spacing unit (like paige) is mean that any wells drilled on section boundary lines between them will share oil between both drilling spacing units.
as far as costs and expenses, they are deducted from your check. royalty owners are in the strange position of funding the costs for some products but not sharing the revenue from the enhanced product. the oil company keeps that profit. the leasingl company keeps the deductions for themselves.
we have been getting royalties from paige and morgen wells for some time. the wells were drilled in july and august of 2025.
you will pay ND state taxes deducted from your check. you will have to file ND state tax forms annually. you pay based on revenue that you RECEIVE. since you don’t receive revenue from some products, you will not pay taxes on that. you just pay taxes based on the revenue you receive for the IRS, and use that same form for ND state tax. we have an accountant in ND do our taxes, file IRS and ND tax forms. the IRS tax form is fairly simple and you could do it. the ND tax form is a little more difficult. i had trouble with it every year, putting the right #s in the right boxes and ND would correct my return. after about 3 years of the mollet well (which is now shut in), our family made the decision to hire an accountant to do them. i produce a spreadsheet annually with the expenses and distribution for the trust. i send that to the accountant soon after 1/1 every year, she does the ND and IRS taxes based on the tax form from silver hill. we usually get a small refund. i advise you to let the ND CPA produce at least the first year and from that, you can decide whether to continue using a ND CPA or file them yourself.
our family put our mineral rights in a family trust and i am the trust administrator for this family trust. that was a decision we made. our family trust has decided to never sell our mineral rights.
if you are an heir of someone who homesteaded your property, you can get the original homestead record here: Search - BLM GLO Records
if you have not received royalties to this point to the morgen and paige wells, then you may have to go through a ND estate procedure. you can do that yourself or hire an attorney. as i said, check with the county land office to get a copy of the legal record and decide what you have to do based on that. the ombudsman can advise after they contact silver hill energy about the hold on your royalties.
so the order of pursuit: county land office, and ND ombudsman who contacts silver hill energy, then you find out what you have to do to establish your right to receive royalties. from there, the ombudsman can tell you what you need to do (but not do it for you).
good luck on all of this.