# Sell Mineral Rights in Divide County, North Dakota | Berlin Royalties > Selling mineral rights in Divide County, North Dakota? Berlin buys Bakken and Three Forks minerals around Crosby, Fortuna, Noonan and countywide. Free valuation with the work shown. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/north-dakota/divide-county/ Publisher: Berlin Royalties, a veteran-owned oil and gas mineral and royalty buyer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, buying for its own account since 2014. Call or text 918-984-1645. License: free to quote and cite with attribution to Berlin Royalties and a link to the source URL. Where We Buy · North Dakota · Divide County ## Sell your Divide County mineral rights. Crosby, Fortuna, Noonan: the one Bakken fringe county in North Dakota with a real ongoing drilling program, and about a quarter of the state's rigs. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) Divide County sits in the far northwest corner of North Dakota against the Saskatchewan and Montana lines. The Bakken here is on the basin margin, thinner and shallower than the core, and for years that meant Divide was written off. It is not being written off now: Koda Resources and Phoenix Operating have been running the most concentrated drilling program of any fringe county in the state, and recent permits have been almost entirely theirs. Divide has no tribal lands, which simplifies title relative to the core counties. What it does have is homestead era patenting from the 1900s and 1910s, which produced a great many 160 and 320 acre tracts that four and five generations of inheritance have divided into very small pieces. We buy those, including the small ones, and we pay for the curative work. Whatever you own here, producing royalties, non-producing acreage, or an inherited fraction nobody has probated, we will identify it from whatever paperwork exists, tell you whether the twenty year clock is a problem, value it off the actual wells and the remaining locations, and show you the reasoning. Free, and if keeping it is the right answer we will say so. Drilling Activity · Updated 2026-10-02 ## What's happening in Divide County right now Active Rigs 6 Running for PHOENIX ENERGY ONE, LLC, KODA RESOURCES, FORMENTERA PARTNERS Permits, Last 90 Days 63 Most active: PHOENIX ENERGY ONE, LLC, KODA RESOURCES, FORMENTERA PARTNERS Completions, Last 90 Days 8 New wells turned to sales in the county. County totals. Source: Enverus, as of 2026-10-02. Rigs are currently active; permits are those approved in the last 90 days; completions are wells reporting first production in the last 90 days, which lags by state. A zero does not mean nothing is happening, only that nothing was reported in that window. Activity like this is exactly what moves mineral value. If it is happening near you, find out what your interest is worth before you take anyone's offer. Formations & Plays ## What produces here ### Bakken and Three Forks Far northwest basin margin: shallower, thinner, and lower pressure than the McKenzie and Mountrail core, but genuinely economic, which is why the rigs are here. ### Madison Scattered legacy conventional production across the county. Counties ## Communities we see in Divide County title Crosby Fortuna Noonan Ambrose Alamo Wherever your tract sits in Divide County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown. 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See the [full county index](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/counties/) or the [North Dakota overview](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/north-dakota/). ### The North Dakota mineral owner's guide Everything a North Dakota owner needs in one place: who owns what under state law, how royalties must be paid and by when, what a buyer can and cannot deduct, the tax treatment of a sale, and the deadlines that quietly cost people their minerals. Free, and no sign-up. [Read the North Dakota guide](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/guide/north-dakota/) Questions ## Straight answers for Divide County owners Is Divide County still being drilled? Yes, and it is the exception among North Dakota's fringe counties. Divide has carried roughly a quarter of the entire state rig count in recent counts, with Koda Resources and Phoenix Operating running the active programs and dozens of recent permits between them. Hunt, Continental, Chord, Petro-Hunt, and about two dozen other operators carry existing production. Roughly 856 wells are producing out of about 1,900 drilled. Is Divide County Bakken as valuable as McKenzie or Mountrail? No, and any buyer who prices it the same is not doing the work. The Bakken here is on the basin margin, so wells are shallower and less productive than in the core. What Divide has that most fringe counties do not is active drilling, which means undrilled locations on your spacing unit carry real rather than theoretical value. We price the existing production and the remaining locations separately and show you both. Do I need to worry about the twenty year abandonment statute here? Yes, in Divide as everywhere in North Dakota. Under N.D.C.C. chapter 38-18.1 a mineral interest unused for 20 years can be deemed abandoned and taken by the surface owner. Divide was homesteaded in the 1900s and 1910s in 160 and 320 acre tracts that have fractionated across four and five generations, so there are a lot of interests here that have had nothing recorded against them in a very long time. A statement of claim under section 38-18.1-04 preserves the interest for the cost of a recording fee. ## Before you sign anything in Divide County The things owners here most often wish they had read first. All free, none of it gated. - [How mineral rights are valued](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/), including the rule of thumb people quote and why it is usually wrong - [Selling mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-mineral-rights/) and [selling oil and gas royalties](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-oil-and-gas-royalties/), with the real process and timeline - [The Pugh clause](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/pugh-clause/), the single most valuable sentence you can negotiate into a lease - [What a farm out is](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/farmout-agreements/), and why your operator suddenly changed - [The rule of capture](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/rule-of-capture/), and why a neighbor's well can legally drain your minerals - [Non-participating royalty interests](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/non-participating-royalty-interest/), if your deed carved one out - [Executive rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/executive-rights/), if somebody else signs the lease that binds your minerals - [Surface owner rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/surface-owner-rights/), if you own the ground and someone else owns what is under it - [Questions to ask a buyer](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/questions-to-ask/) and [what happens if you want out after signing](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/can-i-back-out-of-a-mineral-rights-sale/) Free Valuation ## Find out what your Divide County minerals are worth. 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