MT oil & gas well bonds.
Flat 3%. Enter your amount.
Before the Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation issues a drilling permit, it requires a surety bond conditioned on plugging your well and reclaiming the site. The amount is set by well depth for a single well, or you can blanket-bond every well you operate. We issue it at a flat 3% with a soft credit pull only.
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Three steps to a bonded permit.
Your drilling or operating permit is waiting on this bond. Here is the whole process — no broker phone tag:
Apply online
Operator details, the bond amount the Board requires, and an effective date — plus a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. That is the application.
Reviewed & approved
Most clear quickly; if underwriting needs anything, you hear from an underwriter within 48 hours. The soft credit pull never affects your score.
E-sign & file (Form 3)
Pay online and receive the executed bond on the Board’s Form 3, ready to file with your permit application. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the Board insists.
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Bond amount × 3% = your premium, one-time, $275 minimum. Enter the amount the Board set and the premium updates.
What it is and who needs it.
What the well bond actually guarantees
Montana regulates oil and gas operations through the Board of Oil and Gas Conservation under MCA Title 82, Chapter 11. Before drilling, the operator must post a surety bond conditioned on plugging the well and reclaiming the surface when production ends — so the state is never left holding the cleanup cost on an abandoned well.
The amount is graduated by single-well depth: roughly $1,500 for a well 2,000 feet or shallower, $5,000 for 2,001–3,500 feet, and $10,000 for wells deeper than 3,500 feet. Operators with multiple wells generally post a $50,000 blanket bond covering all of them, and the Board can require a larger amount when it finds one warranted.
It is a three-party guarantee — you (the principal), the surety, and the State of Montana (the obligee). If you fail to plug or reclaim and the state has to, it can recover against the bond, and you repay the surety. We confirm the exact amount on your permit and issue it at a flat 3%.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. Submit once and your bond is typically issued within 1–2 business days.
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If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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Five-minute application, flat 3%, $275 minimum, e-signed bond in 1–2 business days. Free until issued.