Terms
An independent site. Not the Survey, not the Commission, and not a background-check service.
What this site is
An independent directory of one public file. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Kansas Geological Survey, the Kansas Corporation Commission, or the State of Kansas.
This is not legal advice about liability. We quote K.S.A. 55-179 and the Commission’s published guidance. Who is responsible for a particular well is decided case by case on the records, and that is a question for a Kansas oil and gas lawyer, not a website.
This is not an inspection. This register records what was reported about a well, not its condition today. A well shown as producing may have stopped; a well shown as inactive may have been dealt with. Nothing here is an inspection.
Our copy is dated 2026-08-21. The register moves and ours does not update itself.
⚠️ Not a consumer reporting agency
This site is not a consumer reporting agency as defined by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq.), and nothing published or sold here is a consumer report.
You may not use this site, its pages, its search, its API or any dataset obtained from it, in whole or in part, as a factor in deciding a person's eligibility for:
- employment, promotion, reassignment or retention;
- credit or insurance underwriting;
- housing or tenancy;
- any other purpose covered by the FCRA.
Verifying that a licence exists, directly with the issuing authority, is a different act from screening a person — and where a decision about someone depends on it, the check belongs with a screening company that operates as a consumer reporting agency and carries the obligations that come with it.
Having your record removed
If you are named on this site and would rather not be, write to us and we will remove you. You do not have to explain why, and we will not ask.
Two things this cannot do, and we say so plainly rather than let you find out later: it does not change the official register, which is where the record actually lives; and it does not remove you from anyone else's copy of the same public data.
The sources, and what they require
This site republishes public registers. Source by source: the licence it is published under, and the condition its publisher sets — read from the publisher's own terms page, on the date shown.
| Source | Licence | What the publisher requires |
|---|---|---|
| Oil and Gas Wells — Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Geological Survey terms of use | The Survey grants the right, without fee, to access, publish, distribute and modify this material, and asks two things in return. First, a citation quoted word for word, which appears in the footer of every page here. Second — and this one shapes what we may write — « The name KGS may not be used in any advertising or publicity to endorse or promote any products or commercial entity »: the Survey is cited as the source of the data and never as a backer of anything we sell. The Survey also recommends that its data be taken directly from a KGS server rather than through a site that may have changed it. Beyond the terms, two limits belong to the file itself and we repeat them everywhere: the API number is not a unique identifier, and the well class and the plugging date disagree on tens of thousands of wells. — Terms read on 2026-08-21, terms |
Attribution the source requires
The Survey's terms require a citation, and it is quoted here word for word:
The source of this material is the Kansas Geological Survey website at http://www.kgs.ku.edu/. All Rights Reserved.
The same terms provide that the Survey’s name may not be used to endorse or promote a product or a commercial entity. Nothing here — including Pro access and Datasets — presents the Kansas Geological Survey as backing what we sell. It is cited as the source of the data, and nothing more.
Errors
If a page here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. If the underlying record is wrong we cannot fix that — it has to be corrected with the Kansas Geological Survey, and our copy follows at the next collection.