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Kansas Drilling Activity Report

Kansas drilling activity records with verified source dates and coverage limits. Missing categories stay unknown. Counts are not statewide totals.

Source: Buckhead Energy analysis of public oil and gas data · Refresh dates: 2026-11-01

Records Included in This Report

This Kansas report includes 552 permit records, 2,518 spudded wells without recorded first production, 275 spud records, and 13 producing-well records. The county activity summary includes 105 counties. Counts describe the included records, not statewide totals; source refresh dates are listed below.

552
Included permit records
2,518
Spudded, no first production
275
Included spud records
13
Included producing records
100
Ranked operator records
105
Counties in activity summary

Operators Ranked by Included Well Count

#OperatorWells
1 Eiger Operating Company, LLC 8,366
2 Rj Energy 5,589
3 Colt Energy 3,833
4 Murfin Drilling 3,078
5 American Warrior 3,016

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Counties Ranked by Included Well Count

#CountyPermit recordsDUC recordsWell records
1 Montgomery 17 33 23,410
2 Allen 155 192 21,423
3 Barton 23 56 18,847
4 Miami 21 79 18,058
5 Butler 22 38 16,855

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Methodology & Downloads

Counts describe the records included in each category. Coverage is limited and some categories are capped; these counts are not statewide totals. Permit, spud and first-production counts are 12-month totals of monthly Buckhead Energy aggregates, recomputed daily; months resting on 1-2 wells are withheld, so totals are floors. The DUC category uses spud date without recorded first production as a proxy; it does not independently verify completion status. County summaries and operator rankings cover their included records.

Operator rankings:

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Producing-well records:

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An unavailable source date does not establish a zero count. Source refresh dates describe the included records, not the time this page was opened. Use the state regulator reference to research filings; it does not certify these compiled counts.

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Source: Buckhead Energy analysis of public oil and gas data. Refresh dates: 2026-11-01.

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