Top Ten Counties for Oil Production--1994

Top ten counties for oil production (in barrels) in 1994

Kansas total production for 1994 was 47,332,848 barrels. The production from the top ten counties (21,613,416 barrels) amounted to 45.7% of the state's total.

     County       bbl        % of total    last yr
1.   Ellis     3,213,196        6.8           1
2.   Finney    2,829,800        6.0           2
3.   Russell   2,647,054        5.6           3
4.   Rooks     2,176,130        4.6           4
5.   Barton    2,012,060        4.2           5
6.   Seward    1,939,186        4.1           9
7.   Ness      1,889,109        4.0           6
8.   Butler    1,797,555        3.8           7
9.   Stafford  1,593,086        3.4           8
10.  Haskell   1,525,240        3.2          nr

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

There were no changes in the rankings this year.

     County          bbl
1.   Butler      561,949,276
2.   Barton      506,686,611
3.   Russell     495,177,787
4.   Ellis       442,718,443
5.   Rice        327,816,274
6.   Greenwood   293,016,118
7.   Stafford    248,971,242
8.   Rooks       219,263,983
9.   McPherson   201,981,338
10.  Cowley      173,764,909

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.