Producing — Rice County

937 of the 10,609 wells on the register in Rice County — 8.8% — carry this class.

What this class means

the well was producing when the record was last updated. It says nothing about today’s rate.

Rice County holds 1.4% of the wells in this class statewide, while holding 2.0% of the register overall — so the class is under-represented here.

What stands out among these

The operator named on most of these records is Continental Oil CO, on 40 of them (4.3%), ahead of Samuel Gary Jr. and Assoc., INC (31) and Northern Natural Gas CO (29). The oldest well here was completed in 1933 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest reaches 4105 feet — Madsen 1, drilled in 1973.

Who operated them

An old well on land in Rice County?

0 wells in Rice County were plugged at the State’s expense, out of 937 on the register — the sign that an operator was gone. If you find a well on your land, report it and do not tidy it up: knocking over casing can make you the responsible party. This site reads the register; it does not plug wells. Tell us where and we pass the request to Kansas operators and consultants.

We recommend nobody and we are nobody's agent. We have no arrangement with any firm today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

The wells

Part of a bigger picture: all 10,609 wells in Rice County.

Other groups of a similar size

• Producing — Morton 1,052
• Authorized Injection Well — Woodson 1,044
• Approved Intent to Drill — Elk 990
• Inactive Well — Chautauqua 964
• Producing — Seward 964
• Producing — Johnson 952
• Expired Intent to Drill (C-1) — Franklin 931
• Authorized Injection Well — Allen 907
• Producing — Bourbon 896
• Producing — Cowley 884
• Expired Intent to Drill (C-1) — Allen 869