Top Ten Counties for Natural Gas Production--1994

Top ten counties for gas production (in million cubic feet) in 1994

Kansas total production for 1994 was 689,029,117 MCF. The production from the top ten counties (617,622,880 MCF) amounted to 89.6% of the state's total. No changes in rankings occurred in the past year.

     County        MCF        % of total     % last yr.
1.   Stevens   165,681,823       24.0           21.9
2.   Grant     121,257,088       17.6           16.5
3.   Kearny     77,715,908       11.3           12.9
4.   Morton     64,393,257        9.3            8.9
5.   Finney     44,178,245        6.4            7.1
6.   Haskell    42,686,464        6.2            6.9
7.   Seward     38,959,446        5.7            6.3
8.   Stanton    37,674,894        5.5            6.3
9.   Hamilton   13,998,823        2.0            2.0
10.  Barber     11,076,932        1.6            1.7

Top ten counties for all-time production (in MCF)

     County           MCF
1.   Stevens     7,194,681,321
2.   Grant       5,433,956,377
3.   Kearny      3,683,781,772
4.   Morton      2,994,148,265
5.   Finney      1,952,130,319
6.   Haskell     1,848,130,548
7.   Seward      1,437,257,849
8.   Barber      1,324,461,342
9.   Stanton     1,281,288,081
10.  Kingman       742,256,371

Also check out an interactive map of Kansas displaying oil and gas production for each county (through 1994).

These data are adapted from the work of Douglas L. Beene, Kansas Geological Survey.