The Owl Creek field

488 wells — 0.1% of the Kansas register.

What stands out in the Owl Creek field

The operator named on most of these records is Laymon Oil Ii, LLC, on 153 of them (31.4%), ahead of N & B Enterprises (36) and Verde Oil Company (32). The oldest well here was completed in 1967 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest reaches 1375 feet — Splechter 2-07, drilled in 2008.

What happened to these wells — in the Owl Creek field

46 of the 488 wells in the Owl Creek field are classed as plugged and abandoned. 0 were plugged at the State’s expense because no responsible party could be found, and 8 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, 57 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?

0 wells in Kansas were plugged at the State’s expense, out of 488 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.

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The wells

Fields of a comparable size

• Ritz-canton 550
• Cherry Creek 532
• Gates 530
• Fredonia 511
• Trico 507
• Wc 506
• Eubank 505
• Buffalo-vilas 505
• Alford 484
• Boyd 478
• Greenwood Gas Area 459
• Augusta 446
• Erie 432
• Mckinney 427
• Virgil North 424

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.