# Phillips County, MT - Oil & Gas Discussion archives
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/phillips-county-mt-oil-gas-discussion-archives/1487
**Category:** Phillips County, MT
**Created:** [April 8, 2011, 7:32am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/phillips-county-mt-oil-gas-discussion-archives/1487 "2011-04-08T07:32:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Dennis\_Broadbrooks](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Dennis_Broadbrooks)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2011, 7:32am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/phillips-county-mt-oil-gas-discussion-archives/1487/1 "2011-04-08T07:32:21Z")
Oil & gas discussion group for those interested in Phillips County, MT. Share your experience regarding lease bonus, royalty rates, drilling activity, and oil & gas news.
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### Author:  [@Dennis\_Broadbrooks](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Dennis_Broadbrooks)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/phillips-county-mt-oil-gas-discussion-archives/1487/2 "2011-04-29T15:38:16Z")
Phillips County is known for its shallow natural gas in the northern half of the county. Gas has been producing around Saco for the last 90 years and around Whitewater for the last thirty-five years. We have no producing oil wells, as there is a problem with drilling through a zone of hot water. When they perfect drilling through this zone then we will see. We also have no pipeline to export the oil if we did drill into an oil reserve. The Keystone XL pipeline is in the works, but only loading facility in eastern-southeastern Montana. The pipeline will mirror the Northern Border pipeline for the most part.
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### Author:  [@Dennis\_Broadbrooks](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Dennis_Broadbrooks)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/phillips-county-mt-oil-gas-discussion-archives/1487/3 "2012-03-09T00:19:46Z")
Capstar(?) drilling out of Wyoming is drilling northeast of Nelson Reservoir in Phillips County.
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### Author:  [@Dennis\_Broadbrooks](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Dennis_Broadbrooks)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2013, 10:43pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/phillips-county-mt-oil-gas-discussion-archives/1487/4 "2013-01-09T22:43:55Z")
Fidelity is scheduled to drill a few gas wells just over the Phillips/Valley Counties line in Northern/Central Valley County in 2013. There are also a few permits from earlier for wells around the Saco area, but they may allow those to expire, don’t know for sure.
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### Author:  [@Dennis\_Broadbrooks](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Dennis_Broadbrooks)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/phillips-county-mt-oil-gas-discussion-archives/1487/5 "2013-03-01T18:17:49Z")
Fidelity is scheduled to drill a few gas wells around the Saco area, they are repermits. Township 31N, Range 34E area.
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### Author:  [@Dennis\_Broadbrooks](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Dennis_Broadbrooks)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/phillips-county-mt-oil-gas-discussion-archives/1487/6 "2014-01-31T21:21:55Z")
Fidelity has been approved with State of Montana to drill some shallow wells (Gas) around the Saco area, again. Hope they drill them this time. Keeps showing up in Oil and Gas report.
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### Author:  [@Dennis\_Broadbrooks](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Dennis_Broadbrooks)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/phillips-county-mt-oil-gas-discussion-archives/1487/7 "2014-12-29T21:14:55Z")
Again a few replacement wells are scheduled for Bowdoin Dome around Saco, Montana. No new activity. Happy New Year!
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### Author:  [@Dennis\_Broadbrooks](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Dennis_Broadbrooks)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/phillips-county-mt-oil-gas-discussion-archives/1487/8 "2015-04-16T16:18:17Z")
Same wells around Saco area to be drilled, but may take a swing in gas prices for this to happen.
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### Author:  [@Dennis\_Broadbrooks](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Dennis_Broadbrooks)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/phillips-county-mt-oil-gas-discussion-archives/1487/9 "2015-12-15T21:21:56Z")
Wells to be drilled by Fidelity in Saco, MT area have expired again per Montana Board of Oil and Gas.
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### Author:  [@Dennis\_Broadbrooks](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Dennis_Broadbrooks)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/phillips-county-mt-oil-gas-discussion-archives/1487/10 "2016-01-02T22:51:30Z")
We have a new player in Phillips County, Scout Energy Group II, L.P. who acquired mineral interest from Fidelity Exploration & Production Company.