Oil & gas wells in Grant County, KS
2,650 catalogued wells in Grant County, Kansas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Grant County, Kansas has 2,650 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1,854 active (70%), 476 plugged & abandoned (18%) and 5 documented orphans. It ranks 51st of the 104 Kansas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.6% of the state's 473,140 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
2,650
Active
1,854
Plugged
476
Documented orphans
5
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Grant County?
70% of Grant County's wells are active, 49 percentage points above the Kansas share of 21%. 18% are plugged & abandoned, against 55% statewide and 47% nationally. 208 wells (8%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 5 wells (0.2%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Kansas and 4% nationally. The remaining 107 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Grant County?
By product class, 132 of the county's wells (5%) are oil wells, 1,991 (75%) gas wells and 103 (4%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 42% and the gas share 9%. The deepest total depth published for a Grant County well is 8,000 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 Grant County compare with other Kansas counties?
Grant County has the 51st-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 64th in Kansas.
Who operates wells in Grant County?
68 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Grant County. 93% 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 Grant County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teeter Rect Ksm 31901-1 | 15-067-21475 | Other status | Other type | Northern Natural Gas Co. |
| Flowers 2-9r | 15-067-21463 | Active | Gas | Scout Energy Management LLC |
| City of Ulysses 2 | 15-067-21478 | Active | Gas | Ulysses, City of |
| Wander 'A' 5 | 15-067-21479 | Active | Oil | Pantera Energy Company |
| HJV Crocker 'A' 2 | 15-067-21480 | Active | Oil | Pantera Energy Company |
| Brollier 'A' 2-H | 15-067-20834 | Other status | Other type | Anadarko Petroleum Corporation |
| HJV Crocker 'A' 1 | 15-067-21466 | Active | Oil | Anadarko Petroleum Corporation |
| Cp Walter Kuhn C-2 | 15-067-21246 | Shut-in | Other type | Scout Energy Management LLC |
| Cp-Walter Kuhn C-3 | 15-067-21288 | Shut-in | Other type | Scout Energy Management LLC |
| Cp-Walter Kuhn C-1 | 15-067-21289 | Shut-in | Other type | Scout Energy Management LLC |
| Walter Kuhn Hole 2-C3 | 15-067-21328 | Shut-in | Other type | Scout Energy Management LLC |
| Bain 1-9R | 15-067-21469 | Active | Gas | Scout Energy Management LLC |
| MLP Clymer 2-11 | 15-067-21461 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Chesapeake Operating, LLC |
| Ernest Keller 4 | 15-067-21472 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | BP America Production Company |
| Ulysses Rectifier 27 | 15-067-21429 | Shut-in | Other type | Atmos Energy Corporation |
| Hugoton Station Yard 1 | 15-067-21432 | Other status | Other type | Williams Gas Pipeline Central, Inc. |
| Hugoton Station Yard 2 | 15-067-21433 | Other status | Other type | Williams Gas Pipeline Central, Inc. |
| Hugoton Station Yard 3 | 15-067-21434 | Other status | Other type | Williams Gas Pipeline Central, Inc. |
| Henthorn 3 | 15-067-21483 | Active | Gas | Oil Producers, Inc. of Kansas |
| HJV Ahern 'A' 1 | 15-067-21484 | Active | Oil | Pantera Energy Company |
| Hutton 'A' 1 | 15-067-21486 | Active | Gas | Scout Energy Management LLC |
| Well API 15-067-78787 | 15-067-78787 | Other status | Other type | — |
| HJV Moore 'B' 1 | 15-067-21487 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Anadarko Petroleum Corporation |
| HJV Ahern 'A' 2 | 15-067-21488 | Active | Oil | Pantera Energy Company |
| Ross 'B' 3 | 15-067-20758 | Other status | Other type | OXY USA Inc. |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 2,650 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 Grant County, KS?
Grant County, Kansas has 2,650 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1,854 active, 476 plugged and 5 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Grant County?
5 wells in Grant County, Kansas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 64th-highest count among Kansas counties.
What share of wells in Grant County are plugged?
476 of Grant County's 2,650 catalogued wells (18%) 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); Grant County ranks 51st with 2,650.
How many companies operate wells in Grant County?
68 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Grant County, Kansas.
Nearby in the Kansas rankings
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 Grant County, Kansas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kansas/grant (data as of October 10, 2026).