Oil & gas wells in Rice County, KS
9,537 catalogued wells in Rice County, Kansas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Rice County, Kansas has 9,537 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1,264 active (13%), 7,618 plugged & abandoned (80%) and 18 documented orphans. It ranks 17th of the 104 Kansas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 2% of the state's 473,140 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
9,537
Active
1,264
Plugged
7,618
Documented orphans
18
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Rice County?
13% of Rice County's wells are active, 8 percentage points below the Kansas share of 21%. 80% are plugged & abandoned, against 55% statewide and 47% nationally. 117 wells (1%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 18 wells (0.2%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Kansas and 4% nationally. The remaining 520 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Rice County?
By product class, 5,499 of the county's wells (58%) are oil wells, 258 (3%) gas wells and 655 (7%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 42% and the gas share 9%. The deepest total depth published for a Rice County well is 7,950 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 Rice County compare with other Kansas counties?
Rice County has the 17th-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 35th in Kansas.
Who operates wells in Rice County?
437 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Rice County. 36% 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 Rice County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ringwald 8 | 15-159-22381 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Kahan and Associates, Inc |
| Mattson Estate 4 | 15-159-22383 | Active | Oil | M & D Oil and Gas, LLC |
| Kimball 1 | 15-159-22384 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Trek AEC, LLC |
| Burge 1 | 15-159-22374 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Trek AEC, LLC |
| Alice 'A' 1 | 15-159-22392 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | American Warrior, Inc. |
| Douglas Malone 1 | 15-159-19011 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | RJM Company |
| Janssen 'A' 7 | 15-159-22396 | Active | Oil | Daystar Petroleum, Inc. |
| Janssen 'A' 8 | 15-159-22397 | Active | Oil | Daystar Petroleum, Inc. |
| Stockstill 'B' 5 | 15-159-22398 | Active | Oil | Daystar Petroleum, Inc. |
| Wesseler 1-4 | 15-159-22377 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Eagle Creek Corporation |
| Scott 'A' 1-5 | 15-159-22379 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | F. G. Holl Company L.L.C. |
| Rolfs 4-4 | 15-159-22385 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Eagle Creek Corporation |
| Scott 'A' 2-5 | 15-159-22389 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | F. G. Holl Company L.L.C. |
| Friedley 1 | 15-159-22390 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Rama Operating Co., Inc. |
| Charlene 1-18 | 15-159-22395 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Foundation Energy Management, LLC |
| Wilson 'A' 2-21 | 15-159-22399 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Key Gas Corp. |
| Wilson 3 | 15-159-22400 | Other status | Other type | Key Gas Corp. |
| Wilson 4 | 15-159-22401 | Other status | Other type | Key Gas Corp. |
| Hoelscher 'A' 1 | 15-159-22402 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Farmer, John O., Inc. |
| J. R. Lansing 10 | 15-159-01946 | Active | Oil | Conoco, Inc. |
| Sarah Keesling 3 | 15-159-19013 | Plugged & abandoned | Injection | Fox, Don |
| Ainsworth A 3 | 15-159-19015 | Active | Oil | Mike Kelso Oil, Inc. |
| W. S. Pickerill 'A' 3 | 15-159-19016 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Noble Petroleum, Inc. |
| W. S. Pickerill 'A' 7 | 15-159-19017 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Walken Energy LLC |
| Lackey 'C' 2 | 15-159-35667 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Smokey Valley Resources, Inc. |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 9,537 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 Rice County, KS?
Rice County, Kansas has 9,537 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1,264 active, 7,618 plugged and 18 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Rice County?
18 wells in Rice County, Kansas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 35th-highest count among Kansas counties.
What share of wells in Rice County are plugged?
7,618 of Rice County's 9,537 catalogued wells (80%) 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); Rice County ranks 17th with 9,537.
How many companies operate wells in Rice County?
437 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Rice 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 Rice County, Kansas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kansas/rice (data as of October 10, 2026).