We took your 195-well list and your mineral tract positions and ran them against our complete NDIC database. Here's what the system found.
How we expanded from 195 submitted wells to a complete picture of activity on and around your mineral positions.
Wells included in your original Enverus export. Operators: Chord Energy, Continental, Chevron, Kraken.
source = submittedAdditional wells found by exact Section-Township-Range match against your mineral tract positions. Wells in the same sections as your mineral holdings.
match_type = exact_strOffset wells within 5 miles of your tract centroids — not your minerals. Included for market context: adjacent operators, DUCs, and permitted locations that indicate drilling activity in your area.
match_type = radius_5mi · context onlyCurrently producing wells in scope. The baseline measure of what's generating royalties and what's generating intelligence.
well_status = A323 wells on your mineral sections (195 submitted + 128 STR-matched) plus 439 offset context wells within 5 miles. Every well is queryable in Snowflake.
Cross-referencing your submission against NDIC well records identified four wells present in NDIC that do not appear in your Enverus export. Each sits in a section you have mineral interest in. Confirm whether these represent royalty-bearing interests or non-participating third-party minerals before the IB goes out.
Note: The EN-Will Trust C well is listed under Hess as NDIC operator — "CVX" in Enverus likely reflects the royalty/mineral designation. The Devon Erickson wells are the only non-Continental, non-Chord operator in the Sec.8 gap. Full HSL/lease-line scan across all submitted sections returned no additional gaps beyond item 1.
The Kenneth/Helen/Arley/Christiana/Michael State pad sits in T.154N., R.96W. — Sections 8, 16, and 17. Continental drilled 27 new wells across these sections between October 2024 and February 2025, with no competition. Here's what the data says about what happens next.
April 1: Case C32803 — Continental filed for a new 2,560-acre overlapping spacing unit in the Wildrose/Corinth-Bakken Pool, Williams + Divide counties. Cross-county infill push.
April 23: 18 Continental docket cases, including spacing and pooling for T.160N./T.159N., R.97W. — directly adjacent to Overland's northern Williams County position. 4 wells authorized in new unit.
Continental wells across Sections 8, 16, and 17 — all spudded between October 2024 and February 2025, all producing. XTO Energy has 6 permanently abandoned legacy wells. No active competition from any other operator.
T.154N. R.96W. · Sec 8, 16, 17Wells currently drilling, permitted, or confidential in Williams County. Two active pads: Brooklyn-Bakken (Charleston/Addyson, spud Sept–Oct 2025) and Rose Federal (June–Sept 2025). Plus 6 Plano wells permitted, not yet spudded.
8 DRL · 8 LOC · 30 ConfidentialBoth wells peaked at 83K and 78K bbl/month in August 2025 — their first full production month. By January 2026 (month 6), both are at ~25K bbl/month. That's a ~70% first-6-month decline, which is exactly on the standard Bakken type curve for this lateral length and formation.
Translation for Overland: royalty income from this pad is stabilizing into a steady base rate, not collapsing. Projected EUR per well: 300–400K bbl.
Your holdings span Williams, McKenzie, Mountrail, Dunn, and Burke counties — all in the ND Williston Basin. Williams is the primary concentration.
Surface hole locations across Williams, McKenzie, Mountrail, Dunn, and Burke counties. Click any dot for well details.
Top operators by well count across all 762 wells in scope (includes 439 offset context wells). Gold bar = total wells. Teal overlay = wells with active signals.
Wells in scope with the highest cumulative oil production. These are live royalty generators with current production figures.
Mineral rights buyer analysis extracted from NDIC well files. Completion quality, initial production tests, spacing unit structure, and key acquisition findings for each well in the Continental package.
Net Mineral Acres and Net Royalty Acres across all funds and entities. Fund 3 is the dominant position at 1,478 NMA in Williams County — concentrated exactly where the highest-producing Continental wells are operating.
Based on January 2026 production across 141 reporting wells. Adjust royalty rate and price assumptions — figures update in real time.
Estimates are based on reported NDIC production volumes for January 2026 and assume a uniform royalty rate across all wells. Actual royalty income varies by individual well royalty interest, spacing unit participation, and realized price differentials. Entity allocation is proportional to NMA — actual per-entity income depends on which wells each entity participates in.
Five findings from a full cross-reference of your 195 submitted wells and 128 additional STR-matched wells against every layer in our analytics system: production, regulatory dockets, mineral tract ownership, and 2025 drilling activity.
Hess Bakken Investments II has a 20% signal rate — 26 signals across 130 wells in scope — versus Continental at 10.5% (24/228). That rate advantage matters: it means Hess wells are generating twice the density of regulatory events per well. The signals are concentrated in four sections that overlap directly with your mineral tracts: T.156N. R.95W. Sec.15 (5 wells, all signaled, all on your tracts), T.157N. R.94W. Sec.12 (4/4/4), and T.156N. R.94W. Sec.3 (4/5/5 on tracts). These are the non-Continental positions most worth watching in your portfolio.
76 confidential wells are in your full scope. 61 of them sit directly on your mineral sections — not in the radius ring, but on your actual tracts. Oasis Petroleum just spudded six wells in Williams County T.156N. Sec.23 between February 24–28, 2026: the Troon 5602 and Prestwick Federal 5602 pads. Kraken Operating added two more in T.158N. Sec.4 in December 2025. These wells are already producing or approaching first production. They won't appear in Enverus data until confidentiality expires — typically 6 months post-spud.
Fund 3 is your largest single entity position at 1,478 NMA in Williams County. Mapping Fund 3's mineral sections against production data, those sections contain 81 wells with a combined cumulative production of 5.6M barrels. The Kenneth/Helen/Arley/Christiana pad wells — the top 8 all above 250K cum bbl each — sit in Fund 3 coverage sections. This gives Fund 3 direct royalty participation in the best-performing new pad in the Williston Basin Bakken.
Continental isn't the only operator with active regulatory proceedings. Burlington Resources has a full batch of pooling hearings in McKenzie County on April 22. Among non-Continental operators with wells on your tracts: Hess Bakken has 26 wells (21 on your tracts) in Williams and Mountrail counties. Oasis has 7 wells in Williams (all on tracts). Whiting has 7 in McKenzie (all on tracts). These are the operators generating the most near-term regulatory action outside Continental's core block.
Three drilling batches, confirmed in NDIC records: Sec. 17 (Arley/Christiana/Helen/Kenneth) — 10 wells spudded Oct 2024, first production Jun 2025. Sec. 8 (Kenneth/Helen) — 6 wells spudded Dec 2024, first production Jul 2025. Sec. 16 (Michael State Federal / HM Hove) — 9 wells spudded Feb 2025, first production Sep 2025. All 25 producing wells show cumulative oil ranging from 54K to 370K bbl through January 2026. One well (HM Hove 7-9H) is still drilling. The full spud-to-completion-to-production timeline is confirmed from NDIC well records.