MT Board of Oil & Gas Conservation

Live

Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation wells (~42K) plus directional well paths and DNRC active state O&G leases. BOGC well registry with status, type, formation, plus Mineral Mgmt Bureau lease polygons.

What is MT Board of Oil & Gas Conservation?

Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation (BOGC) — discovered via the MT DNRC Hub underlying data services on agency data services. Curated layers: BOG_Wells (~41,960 wells with APIWellNumber 14-digit unpacked, WellName, CompanyName, Status — P&A Approved 25,245 + Producing 8,339 + Shut In 4,760 + Active Injection 961 + Temporarily Abandoned 506 + Spudded 56, Type — Dry Hole 15,631 + Oil 12,588 + Gas 9,758 + Injection EOR 1,470 + Coal Bed Methane 1,116 + Gas Storage 295 + Stratigraphic Test 211, DTD, PLSS Township/Range/Section/Quarter, ProductionField, Reg_Field); BOG_Well_Paths (~4,113 directional bores with formation); MMB_Oil_and_Gas_Active_Lease (~1,186 polygons with AgreementNumber, County UPPERCASE — RICHLAND 244 + TOOLE 185 + HILL 134 + ROOSEVELT 64 + FALLON 58, OGLeaseAcres, OGLeaseLegal, PrimaryCustomer, BeyondPrimTerm). §0 spec drift caught: brief listed both DNRC Hub and MBMG (state geological survey) Hub — MBMG Hub returns HTTP 403 on its public catalog, DROPPED. BOG_Wells layer has NO County column (schema verified live) — county filter on wells must use bbox or PLSS Township/Range. Wells native CRS EPSG:4269 (NAD83 lat/lon decimal); Active Lease native CRS EPSG:32100 (MT State Plane). server-side on both. APIWellNumber stored 14-digit unpacked ('25051217340000') — no dashed form. Last verified live 2026-05-07.

Available Tools

searchWells
Montana BOGC wells (~42K). Filter operator (CompanyName), status (Producing, P&A Approved), type (Oil, Gas, CBM, Injection), productionField, township/range, bbox/near. NO County column on wells layer.
searchActiveLeases
DNRC Mineral Mgmt Bureau active state O&G leases (~1.2K). Filter county UPPERCASE, primaryCustomer, agreementNumber, beyondPrimTerm (YES/NO), bbox.
searchWellPaths
Directional well paths (~4.1K) with formation. Filter apiWellNumber, formation (Bakken, Three Forks), wellName, bbox.
getWellByApi
Single well lookup by API number — dashes stripped automatically.
getServiceInfo
Schema, record counts, and enum values for any of the 3 services.

Requirements

Toggle on
Toggle on and use — no setup needed.

Quick Setup Guide

Follow these steps to connect your AI agents to this connector

Open /mcp and enable MT Board of Oil & Gas Conservation with the toggle — no credentials needed.

Call searchWells with status: 'Producing', type: 'Oil', operator: 'Slawson' to explore Montana wells, or searchActiveLeases with county: 'RICHLAND'.

Connect to Your AI Assistant

Choose your AI assistant below for specific setup instructions

Follow these steps to connect MT Board of Oil & Gas Conservation to Claude:

Step 1: Open Claude Settings

Launch Claude → Click the profile button (bottom left) → Navigate to Settings

Step 2: Access Connectors

Scroll down to the Connectors tab → Navigate to the bottom → Click “Add Custom Connector”

Step 3: Name Your Connector

Enter any name you'd like for this connector

Step 4: Get the Connector URL

Step 5: Add the Connector

Paste the URL in the “Remote MCP Server URL” text box → Click Add

Step 6: Start Using

Your connector is now ready to use in Claude

Follow these steps to connect MT Board of Oil & Gas Conservation to ChatGPT:

Step 1: Enable Developer Mode

Go to Settings → Connectors → Advanced → Enable Developer mode

Step 2: Create New Connector

Go back to Connectors page → Click “Create” (top right)

Step 3: Name Your Connector

Enter any name you'd like for this connector (descriptions are optional)

Step 4: Get the Connector URL

Step 5: Add the URL

Paste the URL in the “MCP Server URL” text box

Step 6: Set Authentication

Click the authentication dropdown → Select “No authentication” (PatchOps handles authentication internally)

Step 7: Create the Connector

Click “I understand and want to continue” checkbox → Press Create

Step 8: Using the Connector

Start a new chat → Click the + button (left of text box) → Open dropdown → Hover over three dots labeled “More” → Select your connector

Instructions for connecting MT Board of Oil & Gas Conservation to GitHub Copilot:

Coming Soon

Detailed setup instructions for GitHub Copilot will be added here.

For other MCP-compatible platforms:

Step 1: Get the Connector URL

Step 2: Add to Configuration

Add this configuration to your MCP settings file. Replace the URL with your specific connector URL from the /mcp page:

"MT Board of Oil & Gas Conservation-MCP": {
  "url": "https://patchops.ai/api/mcp/...",
  "type": "http"
}

Example Configuration

Here’s an example using PatchOps MCP:

"PatchOps-MCP": {
  "url": "https://patchops.ai/api/mcp/...",
  "type": "http"
}