Oil & gas wells in Daniels County, MT
172 catalogued wells in Daniels County, Montana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Daniels County, Montana has 172 catalogued oil & gas wells: 3 active (2%), 155 plugged & abandoned (90%) and 1 documented orphans. It ranks 30th of the 41 Montana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.4% of the state's 42,011 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
172
Active
3
Plugged
155
Documented orphans
1
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Daniels County?
2% of Daniels County's wells are active, 21 percentage points below the Montana share of 23%. 90% are plugged & abandoned, against 60% statewide and 47% nationally. 5 wells (3%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 1 wells (0.6%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 0.6% across Montana and 4% nationally. The remaining 8 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Daniels County?
By product class, 47 of the county's wells (27%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 5 (3%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 30% and the gas share 24%. The deepest total depth published for a Daniels County well is 11,975 ft, against 31,810 ft for Montana as a whole. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Daniels County compare with other Montana counties?
Daniels County has the 30th-most catalogued wells of the 41 Montana counties with at least 25. The median Montana county on WellCensus has 457 wells. The largest, Toole County, has 7,830. By documented orphans it ranks 27th in Montana.
Who operates wells in Daniels County?
79 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Daniels County. 100% of the county's wells carry a link to a canonical operator profile; the rest list no operator or a name not yet resolved. Each well's page names its operator where the state publishes one.
Wells in Daniels County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturn State 1 | 25-019-21075 | Orphaned | Oil | North American Technical Trading Company, Inc. |
| Fugere 1 | 25-019-21084 | Other status | Oil | North American Technical Trading Company, Inc. |
| Fisher 1-24 | 25-019-21085 | Other status | Injection | North American Technical Trading Company, Inc. |
| Fugere 4-19 | 25-019-21095 | Other status | Oil | North American Technical Trading Company, Inc. |
| Gendreau 1-24 | 25-019-21130 | Other status | Oil | North American Technical Trading Company, Inc. |
| H. Martell #1 | 25-019-05000 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | California Company, The |
| E. Paulson #1 | 25-019-05001 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Texaco Exploration and Production Inc. |
| Paulson #1 | 25-019-05004 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Texaco Exploration and Production Inc. |
| Tong-Trb. #1 | 25-019-05005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | California Company, The |
| E. Mcillece #1 | 25-019-05006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | California Company, The |
| E.E. Tong #1 | 25-019-05007 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Carter Oil Co. |
| Suchy 44-26 | 25-019-05008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Mobil Exploration&Producing North America Inc |
| Carl Tong #1 | 25-019-05009 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Calvert Drilling & Producing Co. |
| Tribal 1 | 25-019-05010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | RME Petroleum Company |
| Nyhus 5813-1 | 25-019-05011 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Murphy Exploration and Production Co. |
| Taylor 1 | 25-019-05012 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Reunion Energy Company |
| E.H Godden 1 | 25-019-05013 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Pan American Petroleum |
| Rhodes F-11-6 | 25-019-05014 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Socony-Mobil Oil |
| Edwin J. Linder 1 | 25-019-05015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | RME Petroleum Company |
| Sorenson 1 | 25-019-05016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pan American Petroleum |
| State 1-26 | 25-019-05017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hunt Oil Company |
| Leonard Anderson 1 | 25-019-05018 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pan American Petroleum |
| Carl Lindquist 1 | 25-019-05019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hunt, William Herbert Trust Estate |
| Nuhring 1 | 25-019-05020 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Signal Drilling & Expl. Co. Inc. |
| Alyce Nyquist 1 | 25-019-05021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Texota Oil Company |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 172 in search → (filter by operator, status and type, then export), or find a specific well on the live map.
Frequently asked questions
How many oil and gas wells are in Daniels County, MT?
Daniels County, Montana has 172 catalogued oil & gas wells: 3 active, 155 plugged and 1 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Daniels County?
1 wells in Daniels County, Montana are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 27th-highest count among Montana counties.
What share of wells in Daniels County are plugged?
155 of Daniels County's 172 catalogued wells (90%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 60% across Montana.
Which Montana county has the most oil and gas wells?
Toole County has the most catalogued wells of any Montana county on WellCensus (7,830); Daniels County ranks 30th with 172.
How many companies operate wells in Daniels County?
79 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Daniels County, Montana.
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About this data
Source: Montana Board of Oil & Gas Conservation well registry, plus the USGS United States Documented Orphaned Well Database (2026, doi 10.5066/P13FHBYG), as published October 10, 2026 — WellCensus refreshes it monthly. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.
Cite as: WellCensus, “Oil & gas wells in Daniels County, Montana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/montana/daniels (data as of October 10, 2026).