The Lost Springs field

1,083 wells — 0.2% of the Kansas register.

What stands out in the Lost Springs field

The operator named on most of these records is Slusser Drilling CO, on 34 of them (3.1%), ahead of Slusser Drlg (31) and Shawmar Oil (25). The oldest well here was completed in 1924 and the most recent in 2014, and the deepest reaches 3220 feet — Metro 1 Swdw.

What happened to these wells — in the Lost Springs field

490 of the 1,083 wells in the Lost Springs field are classed as plugged and abandoned. 1 were plugged at the State’s expense because no responsible party could be found, and 61 sit on the register as inactive — neither producing nor plugged.

⚠️ Two fields in this register disagree, and we show both rather than pick one: across Kansas, 245,220 wells are classed as plugged but 92,867 of them carry no plugging date, while 26,002 wells carry a date under another class. Here, 358 of these wells have a date on file. What each class means.

Producing formations

The formation is recorded on only 21 % of Kansas wells, so this table describes the minority that carry one.

Where the field lies

Who operates there

An old well on land in Kansas?

1 wells in Kansas were plugged at the State’s expense, out of 1,083 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

Fields of a comparable size

• El Dorado 1,480
• Jefferson-sycamore 1,460
• Neodesha 1,433
• Burrton 1,362
• Iola 1,358
• Hugoton 1,142
• Coffeyville-cherryvale 1,140
• Stoltenberg 1,111
• Marcotte 1,019
• Fairport 1,002
• Colony-welda 949
• Zenith-peace Creek 934
• Geneseo-edwards 864
• Garnett Shoestring 837
• Moran 819

Neighbours by the number of wells, not a ranking: the list slides with the field, so every one of the 109 field pages is reachable from the others. All of them.