Oil & gas wells in Lane County, KS
2,813 catalogued wells in Lane County, Kansas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Lane County, Kansas has 2,813 catalogued oil & gas wells: 491 active (17%), 2,166 plugged & abandoned (77%) and 2 documented orphans. It ranks 47th of the 104 Kansas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.6% of the state's 473,140 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
2,813
Active
491
Plugged
2,166
Documented orphans
2
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Lane County?
17% of Lane County's wells are active, 4 percentage points below the Kansas share of 21%. 77% are plugged & abandoned, against 55% statewide and 47% nationally. 46 wells (2%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 2 wells (0.1%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Kansas and 4% nationally. The remaining 108 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Lane County?
By product class, 921 of the county's wells (33%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 168 (6%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 42% and the gas share 9%. The deepest total depth published for a Lane County well is 5,771 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 Lane County compare with other Kansas counties?
Lane County has the 47th-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 75th in Kansas.
Who operates wells in Lane County?
291 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Lane County. 81% 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 Lane County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paris 1 | 15-101-21785 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Denis Roberts Oil |
| Bryant 'A' 1 | 15-101-21787 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Knighton Oil Company, Inc. |
| Martin 1 | 15-101-21796 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Denis Roberts Oil |
| Weiser 1 | 15-101-20573 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Beren Corporation |
| Clark 1-15 | 15-101-21783 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Larson Operating Company |
| Esther 1-11 | 15-101-21789 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Falcon Exploration, Inc. |
| Roberts Trust 'A' 1-5 | 15-101-21793 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Trans Pacific Oil Corporation |
| York 1 | 15-101-21798 | Active | Oil | MAD Operators LLC |
| Wilkens, M. 1 | 15-101-21799 | Active | Oil | Ritchie Exploration, Inc. |
| E. Joe 'A' 2-10 | 15-101-21800 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Mull Drilling Company, Inc. |
| West 'A' 1 | 15-101-21801 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Raymond Oil Company, Inc. |
| York 1-7 | 15-101-21802 | Active | Oil | Vess Oil Corporation |
| Bryant 4-16X | 15-101-21804 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Diversified Operating Corp. |
| BSW Unit 'A' 1-16 | 15-101-21807 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Trans Pacific Oil Corporation |
| York 'A' 1 | 15-101-21809 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Vess Oil Corporation |
| Whiting Trust Unit 'A' 1-6 | 15-101-21810 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | McCoy Petroleum Corporation |
| Debbie 1 | 15-101-21811 | Active | Oil | Carmen Schmitt, Inc. |
| Offner-Curtis 1 | 15-101-21812 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Farmer, John O., Inc. |
| Ewing 'A' 1-18 | 15-101-21813 | Active | Oil | Viking Resources, Inc |
| Erickson 1 | 15-101-00001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Nichols 1 | 15-101-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Hutchins 1 | 15-101-00003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Edmundson 1 | 15-101-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | — |
| Mumma 1 | 15-101-00005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Moomaw 1 | 15-101-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 2,813 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 Lane County, KS?
Lane County, Kansas has 2,813 catalogued oil & gas wells: 491 active, 2,166 plugged and 2 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Lane County?
2 wells in Lane County, Kansas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 75th-highest count among Kansas counties.
What share of wells in Lane County are plugged?
2,166 of Lane County's 2,813 catalogued wells (77%) 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); Lane County ranks 47th with 2,813.
How many companies operate wells in Lane County?
291 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Lane 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 Lane County, Kansas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kansas/lane (data as of October 10, 2026).