Oil & gas wells in Grant County, NE
32 catalogued wells in Grant County, Nebraska, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Grant County, Nebraska has 32 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 26 plugged & abandoned (81%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 31st of the 36 Nebraska counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 22,021 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
32
Active
0
Plugged
26
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Grant County?
0% of Grant County's wells are active, 10 percentage points below the Nebraska share of 10%. 81% are plugged & abandoned, against 77% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Grant County; Nebraska as a whole has 32. The remaining 6 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Grant County?
By product class, 0 of the county's wells (0%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 0 (0%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 27% and the gas share 2%. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Grant County compare with other Nebraska counties?
Grant County has the 31st-most catalogued wells of the 36 Nebraska counties with at least 25. The median Nebraska county on WellCensus has 150 wells. The largest, Kimball County, has 4,891.
Who operates wells in Grant County?
Nebraska records come from the regulator's well-location index — API number, coordinates and status — without operator names or lifecycle dates (NOGCC's free export is API + location + status symbol; the full database is a paid product).
Wells in Grant County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowe 1 | 26-075-05000 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Vinton, William F 1 | 26-075-05001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Farrar, W B 1 | 26-075-05002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Farrar 1 | 26-075-05004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Farrar 1 | 26-075-05005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Sutton 1 | 26-075-05006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Egan, Thomas 1 | 26-075-05007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| J H Minor Company 1 | 26-075-05008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Abbott 1 | 26-075-05009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Abbott Co. 1 | 26-075-05012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Lowe 1 | 26-075-05013 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Abbott Company 2 | 26-075-05014 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Abbott 1 | 26-075-05015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Monahan Cattle Company 2 | 26-075-05016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Manning 1 | 26-075-05017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Manning 1 | 26-075-19000 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Hebbert & Rex Co. 1 | 26-075-21001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Lynch 1-12 | 26-075-21002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| State 1-16-239 | 26-075-21003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Lazy Bones Ranch 1-26 | 26-075-21004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Lowe, Fred 1-29 | 26-075-21005 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Spring Valley Ranch 1-18 | 26-075-21006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| State 1-16-340 | 26-075-21007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| State 1-16-240 | 26-075-21008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Spring Valley 1-9 | 26-075-21009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 32 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, NE?
Grant County, Nebraska has 32 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 26 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Grant County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Grant County, Nebraska.
What share of wells in Grant County are plugged?
26 of Grant County's 32 catalogued wells (81%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 77% across Nebraska.
Which Nebraska county has the most oil and gas wells?
Kimball County has the most catalogued wells of any Nebraska county on WellCensus (4,891); Grant County ranks 31st with 32.
Nearby in the Nebraska rankings
About this data
Source: Nebraska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission 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, Nebraska”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/nebraska/grant (data as of October 10, 2026).