Oil and Gas Well Statistics for Kansas

Tables updated: June 27, 2025

View 2013-2016
View 2017-2020

  2022 2023 2024 2025
Wells permitted 1,685 1,370 1,260 378
New oil wells drilled 872 637 651 105
New gas wells drilled 80 18 12 6
Dry holes drilled 334 288 224 50
Service wells drilled 470 527 585 80
Suspended wells drilled        
Total New Wells
Drilled
1,768 1,474 1,477 242
Total New Footage
Drilled
4,812,292 3,814,655 3,342,668 717,112
Coalbed methane
well permits issued
0 1 0 0
Coalbed methane
wells drilled
0 1 0 0
Horizontal
wells permitted
12 10 12 3
Horizontal
wells drilled
14 10 12 3
  Number of wells
(as of update date)
Total Producing oil wells 68,081
Total Producing gas wells 23,935
Total Producing coalbed methane wells 4,104
Total SWD or INJ wells 5,554
Total EOR wells 9,578
Records in our Master List 508,386
Total Count of Wells 459,976

Intents vs Crude Oil Price
Chart showing new well intents vs the price of oil.
Sources: CHS Inc. Energy-Refinery Supply price list, and KGS

Monthly Natural Gas Price
Chart showing average monthly natural gas price.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration

Line chart showing wells (permitted, spudded, plugged) since 2000.

Line chart showing completed each year by type of well since 2000.

Notes on methods

Oil wells are those with a well status of "OIL", "O&G", "OIL-P&A", or "O&G-P&A". Gas wells are those with a well status of "GAS", "CBM", "GAS-P&A", "CBM-P&A". The "-P&A" flag means the well was completed successfully but has since been plugged. Service wells are those with a well status of "CATH," "EOR," "SWD," or "WATER."

Dry holes are those with a well status of "D&A".

Permitted coalbed methane wells are those for which we have a permit date within the desired year. Wells drilled may have been permitted in a previous year. Expired permits will often be changed from "CBM" to "LOC" at some point. Workovers are not included in CBM counts.

We have no information in our database on how an oil well is producing (flowing or artificial lift).

Total wells producing is calculated by adding all the wells with valid completion dates or spud dates and no plugging dates. Only wells with no workover code are counted, but a certain percentage of older wells are plugged but do not have a plugging date.

Horizontal wells listed are based on a digit present in second place of the workover code (i.e. '-0100','-0101','-0200', etc.). As with the other searches, a well is listed as drilled once we have a spud date in the database. Sometimes the status will be upgraded to drilled or completed before we have the date available.

"Records in our Master List" is a count of every Kansas record in our list of wells; can include highway test holes where core or cuttings were taken, water wells where electric logs were run, and so on. "Total Count of Wells" is a count of records where they do not appear to be workovers and the type of well is related to the oil and gas industry.