Oil and gas wells

Oil and gas wells with operator, status, type and field, plus recent permits from the weekly activity letters.

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About this data

Published by: Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation (DNRC)
Method: Downloaded from the agency’s public GIS service and split into county files.
Update frequency: Monthly
Last updated: Oct 5, 2026
Records: 42,049
Coverage: Statewide.
Records in 51 of 56 counties.

Known gaps

No spud date in the GIS layer, so dates are completion dates.

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Fields

Field	Column	Description
County	`county`
API number	`api`	The well’s national ID.
Name	`nm`
Operator	`op`
Status	`st`
Type	`ty`
Completed	`cmp`
Field	`fld`
Total depth (ft)	`td`
Township / range / section	`trs`
Lt	`lt`
Lte	`lte`
Longitude	`lon`	WGS84 degrees.
Latitude	`lat`	WGS84 degrees.

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Data 4 MT is an index of public records. It republishes only what Montana and federal agencies make public, with a link to the source on each record. People are shown as “Private individual” on public pages and downloads; companies, trusts held by institutions, and governments keep their names. No document images, sale prices, voter, MVD or wildlife-telemetry data are stored. Verify any record against the publisher’s copy before relying on it.