Oil & gas wells in Rooks County, KS
8,451 catalogued wells in Rooks County, Kansas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Rooks County, Kansas has 8,451 catalogued oil & gas wells: 2,001 active (24%), 6,009 plugged & abandoned (71%) and 26 documented orphans. It ranks 18th of the 104 Kansas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 2% of the state's 473,140 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
8,451
Active
2,001
Plugged
6,009
Documented orphans
26
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Rooks County?
24% of Rooks County's wells are active, 2 percentage points above the Kansas share of 21%. 71% are plugged & abandoned, against 55% statewide and 47% nationally. 55 wells (0.7%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 26 wells (0.3%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Kansas and 4% nationally. The remaining 360 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Rooks County?
By product class, 3,959 of the county's wells (47%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 787 (9%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 42% and the gas share 9%. The deepest total depth published for a Rooks County well is 4,615 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 Rooks County compare with other Kansas counties?
Rooks County has the 18th-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 29th in Kansas.
Who operates wells in Rooks County?
545 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Rooks County. 61% 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 Rooks County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kennedy 1 | 15-163-01369 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Black Diamond Oil, Inc. |
| Harmon 3 | 15-163-22844 | Other status | Other type | Liberty Oper & Compl, Inc |
| Keas 'A' 1 | 15-163-23309 | Active | Injection | American Warrior, Inc. |
| Tawney 'A' 1 | 15-163-23311 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Trek AEC, LLC |
| Therean Towns 1 | 15-163-23313 | Active | Oil | Calvin Noah, LLC |
| Neil 1 | 15-163-23315 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Trek AEC, LLC |
| Ross 16-2 | 15-163-22549 | Other status | Other type | Murfin Drilling Co. |
| Haight 1-7 | 15-163-23308 | Active | Oil | Vess Oil Corporation |
| Graham 'A' 1 | 15-163-23310 | Active | Oil | Mai Oil Operations, Inc. |
| Amrein 1 | 15-163-23312 | Active | Oil | Production Drilling, Inc. |
| Keller 'A' 3 | 15-163-23314 | Active | Oil | Mai Oil Operations, Inc. |
| Kuehnl 1 | 15-163-23316 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Coral Production Corporation |
| Graham B 1 | 15-163-23317 | Active | Oil | Mai Oil Operations, Inc. |
| Dick Largent 5-21 | 15-163-23322 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Murfin Drilling Co., Inc. |
| Rogers Trust Unit 32-1 | 15-163-23324 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Trich Production, Inc. |
| Dauwe 1 | 15-163-23325 | Active | Oil | Chaco Energy Company |
| Dick 7 | 15-163-23321 | Active | Injection | Trans Pacific Oil Corporation |
| Eilers 1 | 15-163-23326 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Black Petroleum Company |
| Carpenter, Frank 1 | 15-163-23329 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Baird Oil Company LLC |
| Allphin 'A' 1 | 15-163-23330 | Active | Oil | Mai Oil Operations, Inc. |
| McClellan Farms 1-4 | 15-163-23339 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Murfin Drilling Co., Inc. |
| Tomascheck 1 | 15-163-23338 | Active | Oil | Production Drilling, Inc. |
| Melton 1 | 15-163-23343 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | A & A Production |
| Schoshetom Unit 1-32 | 15-163-23344 | Active | Oil | Patterson Energy LLC |
| Thompson 2 | 15-163-19024 | Active | Oil | Bach Oil Production |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 8,451 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 Rooks County, KS?
Rooks County, Kansas has 8,451 catalogued oil & gas wells: 2,001 active, 6,009 plugged and 26 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Rooks County?
26 wells in Rooks County, Kansas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 29th-highest count among Kansas counties.
What share of wells in Rooks County are plugged?
6,009 of Rooks County's 8,451 catalogued wells (71%) 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); Rooks County ranks 18th with 8,451.
How many companies operate wells in Rooks County?
545 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Rooks 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 Rooks County, Kansas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kansas/rooks (data as of October 10, 2026).