Oil & gas wells in Finney County, KS
3,935 catalogued wells in Finney County, Kansas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Finney County, Kansas has 3,935 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1,920 active (49%), 1,370 plugged & abandoned (35%) and 24 documented orphans. It ranks 38th of the 104 Kansas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.8% of the state's 473,140 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
3,935
Active
1,920
Plugged
1,370
Documented orphans
24
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Finney County?
49% of Finney County's wells are active, 27 percentage points above the Kansas share of 21%. 35% are plugged & abandoned, against 55% statewide and 47% nationally. 417 wells (11%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 24 wells (0.6%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Kansas and 4% nationally. The remaining 204 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Finney County?
By product class, 945 of the county's wells (24%) are oil wells, 1,584 (40%) gas wells and 480 (12%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 42% and the gas share 9%. The deepest total depth published for a Finney County well is 7,044 ft, against 11,300 ft for Kansas as a whole. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Finney County compare with other Kansas counties?
Finney County has the 38th-most catalogued wells of the 104 Kansas counties with at least 25. The median Kansas county on WellCensus has 2,220 wells. The largest, Montgomery County, has 21,956. By documented orphans it ranks 31st in Kansas.
Who operates wells in Finney County?
202 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Finney County. 82% of the county's wells carry a link to a canonical operator profile; the rest list no operator or a name not yet resolved. Each well's page names its operator where the state publishes one.
Wells in Finney County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norma 2-22 | 15-055-21673 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Helmerich & Payne, Inc. |
| Rectifier Kgs 61 | 15-055-21685 | Other status | Other type | Koch Exploration Company |
| Garden City 'C' 4 | 15-055-21686 | Shut-in | Oil | Eiger Operating Company, LLC |
| Trekell 2-1 | 15-055-21672 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Hess Oil Company |
| Tate 'A' 4-19 | 15-055-21682 | Active | Oil | Lario Oil & Gas Company |
| Barrett 6-20 | 15-055-21681 | Active | Injection | Lario Oil & Gas Company |
| Trekell 3-1 | 15-055-21696 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Hess Oil Company |
| Kephart 1 | 15-055-21698 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Helmerich & Payne, Inc. |
| Frazier Gas Unit 2HI | 15-055-21718 | Active | Gas | Scout Energy Management LLC |
| Garden City Co. 2 HI | 15-055-21719 | Active | Gas | Scout Energy Management LLC |
| Taylor Gas Unit 3 HI | 15-055-21720 | Active | Gas | Scout Energy Management LLC |
| Hoffman Gas Unit 2 HI | 15-055-21721 | Active | Gas | Scout Energy Management LLC |
| KRAUS Gas Unit 2-HI | 15-055-21723 | Active | Gas | Scout Energy Management LLC |
| HAWK Gas Unit 2-HI | 15-055-21724 | Active | Gas | Scout Energy Management LLC |
| Pfeifer 1 | 15-055-21725 | Active | Gas | Hartman Oil Co., Inc. |
| Crawford Gas Unit 'A' 5 HI | 15-055-21732 | Active | Gas | Scout Energy Management LLC |
| Hutchinson 1-2 | 15-055-21733 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Helmerich & Payne, Inc. |
| Hoeme 1 | 15-055-21748 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | E. Lee Gorsuch |
| Huelskamp 1-1 | 15-055-21749 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Lang, Kenneth R. |
| Trekell 4-1 | 15-055-21750 | Active | Injection | Hess Oil Company |
| Deremus 2 Flb | 15-055-21751 | Active | Oil | HG Oil Holdings, LLC |
| Renick 4 | 15-055-21761 | Active | Gas | American Warrior, Inc. |
| Damme 33 | 15-055-21689 | Active | Gas | Hartman Oil Co., Inc. |
| Stewart Unit Pauls 9-7 | 15-055-21674 | Plugged & abandoned | Injection | Samuel Gary Jr. & Associates, Inc. |
| Fike (F-6) 2 (Cp2) | 15-055-21642 | Shut-in | Other type | Midwest Energy, Inc. |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 3,935 in search → (filter by operator, status and type, then export), or find a specific well on the live map.
Frequently asked questions
How many oil and gas wells are in Finney County, KS?
Finney County, Kansas has 3,935 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1,920 active, 1,370 plugged and 24 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Finney County?
24 wells in Finney County, Kansas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 31st-highest count among Kansas counties.
What share of wells in Finney County are plugged?
1,370 of Finney County's 3,935 catalogued wells (35%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 55% across Kansas.
Which Kansas county has the most oil and gas wells?
Montgomery County has the most catalogued wells of any Kansas county on WellCensus (21,956); Finney County ranks 38th with 3,935.
How many companies operate wells in Finney County?
202 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Finney County, Kansas.
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About this data
Source: Kansas Geological Survey well registry, plus the USGS United States Documented Orphaned Well Database (2026, doi 10.5066/P13FHBYG), as published October 10, 2026 — WellCensus refreshes it monthly. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.
Cite as: WellCensus, “Oil & gas wells in Finney County, Kansas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kansas/finney (data as of October 10, 2026).