Kansas
Kansas produced 25.2 MMbbl of oil and 119.6 Bcf of natural gas in 2025. 74,661 producing wells tracked, 12 months to Jun 2026.
- 0.5% of the oil produced in the United States, 2025.
- Oil production fell 5% in 2025 from 2024.
Production
- filling in (est.) . Hatching marks our estimate of the volume still to be filed. It updates as filings arrive
Still arriving: Jul 2026 <1% filed, Aug 2026 <1% filed, Sep 2026 <1% filed, Oct 2026 <1% filed.
The most recent months are still filling in. The chart updates as filings arrive.
All from what the source published. All held at well grain.
How the volume breaks down
- 34.9% Reported by the official source by well
- 65.1% Reported by the official source as a lease total, split across the lease's wells. The regional total shown is the reported number, to rounding.
Every barrel through March 2026 starts from what the official source published for those months. Measured over January 1987 to March 2026.
- filling in (est. · unconfirmed) first filings ahead . This band is our estimate for the wells whose first filings are still ahead and that we cannot yet place in a start year. It is drawn past the divider only, as our forecast for those wells. . Hatching marks our estimate of the volume still to be filed. That estimate draws on our own production forecast. This estimate is published unconfirmed. It updates as filings arrive
- estimated . Hatching marks our estimate. In the most recent months that is volume still to be filed. Past the divider it is our estimate of each whole month, built on any filings already in. Beyond the last filings it is our forecast.
Still arriving: Jul 2026 <1% filed, Aug 2026 <1% filed, Sep 2026 <1% filed, Oct 2026 <1% filed.
In this view, hatching marks our estimate, and in the most recent months that is volume still to be filed. The band labeled first filings ahead is our estimate for the wells whose first filings are still ahead and that we cannot yet place in a start year; it is drawn past the divider only, as our forecast for those wells. The other bands continue past the divider as our estimate for the wells in them, from any filings already in and then from our forecast, built well by well. The method behind each well is recorded with the forecast. The forward months add no new wells. How our methods work
All from what the source published. All held at well grain.
How the volume breaks down
- 94.4% Reported by the official source by well
- 5.6% Reported by the official source as a lease total, split across the lease's wells. The regional total shown is the reported number, to rounding.
Every cubic foot through March 2026 starts from what the official source published for those months. Measured over January 1987 to March 2026.
The bands group wells by when they first produced.
About this chart
The stack shows what is holding today's rate up and how much of it is new drilling. In the reported months the bands draw the filings already in. The months still filling in are marked.
Annual table (full history)
| Year | Oil (MMbbl) | Gas produced (Bcf) |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25.2 | 120 |
| 2024 | 26.6 | 125 |
| 2023 | 27.4 | 136 |
| 2022 | 27.5 | 147 |
| 2021 | 27.6 | 152 |
| 2020 | 27.9 | 162 |
| 2019 | 32.7 | 181 |
| 2018 | 34.1 | 199 |
| 2017 | 35.2 | 218 |
| 2016 | 37.3 | 243 |
| 2015 | 44.4 | 281 |
| 2014 | 48.0 | 283 |
| 2013 | 45.5 | 288 |
| 2012 | 42.6 | 294 |
| 2011 | 40.3 | 307 |
| 2010 | 39.5 | 328 |
| 2009 | 38.4 | 352 |
| 2008 | 38.4 | 371 |
| 2007 | 35.5 | 364 |
| 2006 | 34.9 | 367 |
| 2005 | 32.9 | 371 |
| 2004 | 33.0 | 391 |
| 2003 | 33.0 | 413 |
| 2002 | 32.3 | 447 |
| 2001 | 32.9 | 473 |
| 2000 | 33.7 | 520 |
| 1999 | 32.4 | 552 |
| 1998 | 34.4 | 589 |
| 1997 | 39.2 | 671 |
| 1996 | 40.9 | 709 |
| 1995 | 42.3 | 708 |
| 1994 | 44.9 | 701 |
| 1993 | 46.9 | 655 |
| 1992 | 50.4 | 630 |
| 1991 | 53.4 | 621 |
| 1990 | 52.5 | 563 |
| 1989 | 52.9 | 581 |
| 1988 | 54.7 | 565 |
| 1987 | 56.2 | 443 |
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
Monthly table (last 24 months)
| Month | Oil (Mbbl) | Gas produced (MMcf) |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06 | 2,031.4 | 9,198 |
| 2026-05 | 2,011.7 | 8,723 |
| 2026-04 | 2,048.3 | 8,405 |
| 2026-03 | 2,193.6 | 9,848 |
| 2026-02 | 1,922.5 | 8,956 |
| 2026-01 | 1,961.9 | 9,360 |
| 2025-12 | 2,150.2 | 9,913 |
| 2025-11 | 1,968.1 | 9,703 |
| 2025-10 | 2,104.6 | 10,066 |
| 2025-09 | 2,115.3 | 9,751 |
| 2025-08 | 2,062.3 | 10,219 |
| 2025-07 | 2,204.7 | 10,386 |
| 2025-06 | 2,160.9 | 9,854 |
| 2025-05 | 2,174.5 | 10,497 |
| 2025-04 | 2,140.3 | 9,890 |
| 2025-03 | 2,185.6 | 10,387 |
| 2025-02 | 1,863.4 | 8,876 |
| 2025-01 | 2,062.7 | 10,050 |
| 2024-12 | 2,229.3 | 10,518 |
| 2024-11 | 2,030.6 | 10,222 |
| 2024-10 | 2,333.9 | 10,572 |
| 2024-09 | 2,188.8 | 10,257 |
| 2024-08 | 2,305.0 | 10,617 |
| 2024-07 | 2,371.3 | 10,695 |
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
Source: CommoVision · Kansas, data through June 2026.
Well map
- Oil 295,070
- Natural gas 47,526
- Undetermined 67,432
About this map
Undetermined means not enough signal to settle it. Producing wells are the ones that reported oil or gas in the 12 months to Jun 2026.
Type curves
411 of the drawn cohorts’ wells are not in these curves yet: each is still producing and joins its curve once it carries a forecast.
411 of the drawn cohorts’ wells are not in these curves yet: each is still producing and joins its curve once it carries a forecast.
Average production per well, for wells grouped by when they first produced.
How these curves are built
Average daily production per well, for wells grouped by when they first produced. Includes every well of the cohort that is old enough at each month, except wells that are still active but not yet covered by our forecasts; those are left out of both the reported and forecast parts until they are. Wells that are shut in or have stopped producing count as zero, so the average reflects the whole group drawn, not just survivors. Rates are calendar-day (volume ÷ days in month). The cumulative axis accumulates those same monthly averages at the average month length. Months not yet fully reported are excluded. The 2010-2014 curve draws those years as one group. The chart opens on average daily rate against months on production, the rate on a log scale. The view control switches to rate against cumulative production per well, on the same log rate scale, or to cumulative production per well against months on production, on a linear scale. Every view draws the same cohorts from the same production history. Each cohort is solid through the last month all the wells in its curve sit inside fully reported data. Past it the dashed curve carries the same wells forward, on our forecast where a well’s own record ends, for up to five years. A dashed curve runs as far as at least nine in ten of its wells are accounted for. A well that is old enough but shut in still counts, as zero. The measured months are what these wells reported. In the forward months each well counts its own reported figure for each month it has one, our forecast for each month it has only that, and zero for the rest. The forward average counts every well in the curve. The drawn forecast runs up to five years past the measured months. Line thickness tracks how many wells each curve is drawn from. 76,624 wells are counted here but not shown on the age axis: they started producing in 1989 or earlier, too close to the start of our records for their region to verify their true age.
Cohort summary table
| First produced | Wells in curve | Peak oil (bbl/d per well) | Month-12 oil (bbl/d per well) | Cum oil in series (Mbbl per well) | Peak gas (Mcf/d per well) | Month-12 gas (Mcf/d per well) | Cum gas in series (Bcf per well) | Months in series | Wells old enough at last month in series | Forecast months drawn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 102 | 11 | — | 0.3 | 2.8 | — | 0.0 | 1 | 100% | 60 |
| 2025 | 372 | 10.2 | — | 1.8 | 9 | — | 0.0 | 7 | 100% | 60 |
| 2024 | 527 | 9.1 | 4.4 | 3.3 | 10.3 | 6 | 0.0 | 19 | 100% | 60 |
| 2023 | 553 | 10.9 | 5.9 | 5.6 | 5.2 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 31 | 100% | 60 |
| 2022 | 838 | 8.7 | 4.5 | 5.3 | 8.7 | 6 | 0.0 | 43 | 100% | 60 |
| 2021 | 486 | 9.5 | 5.7 | 7.5 | 3.3 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 55 | 100% | 60 |
| 2020 | 355 | 6.7 | 5.3 | 9.6 | 6.8 | 3.6 | 0.0 | 67 | 100% | 60 |
| 2019 | 619 | 12.5 | 5.4 | 9.5 | 7.9 | 2.7 | 0.0 | 79 | 100% | 60 |
| 2018 | 975 | 9.3 | 4.6 | 7.9 | 6.5 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 91 | 100% | 60 |
| 2017 | 822 | 10.1 | 6 | 10.2 | 8.2 | 4.2 | 0.0 | 103 | 100% | 60 |
| 2016 | 718 | 9.9 | 6.9 | 12.0 | 8.5 | 5.1 | 0.0 | 115 | 100% | 60 |
| 2015 | 1,534 | 16.7 | 6.4 | 12.3 | 34.1 | 22.5 | 0.0 | 127 | 100% | 60 |
| 2010-2014 | 15,458 | 12 | 5 | 9.0 | 27.4 | 16.3 | 0.0 | 139 | 100% | 60 |
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
Source: CommoVision · Kansas type curves, per-well production by first-production cohort.
Top operators in Kansas, 2025
Top operators in Kansas, 2025: full table
| Operator | Oil (Mbbl/d, 2025) | Gas produced (MMcf/d, 2025) | Share of output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scout Energy Management | 0.1 | 134.4 | 10.0% |
| Merit Energy Company | 5.1 | 57.2 | 9.8% |
| Berexco | 4.1 | 3.1 | 4.7% |
| Vess Oil Corporation | 2.5 | 0.4 | 2.8% |
| Murfin Drilling Company | 2.5 | 0.0 | 2.7% |
| Patterson Energy LLC | 2.0 | 0.0 | 2.2% |
| American Warrior Inc. | 1.9 | 1.1 | 2.2% |
| Mach Natural Resources LP | 1.0 | 14.3 | 2.1% |
| MAI Oil Operations, Inc. | 1.6 | 0.3 | 1.8% |
| Lario Oil & Gas Company | 1.2 | 0.7 | 1.4% |
| 1,028 other operators | 43.8 | 114.0 | 56.6% |
| Without a named operator | 3.2 | 2.2 | 3.7% |
Mbbl/d = thousand barrels per day · MMcf/d = million cubic feet per day (units).
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
Top counties by 2025 production
| County | Oil (MMbbl) | Gas produced (Bcf) | Share of 2025 output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stevens County, Kansas | 0.2 | 18.1 | 7.1% |
| Haskell County, Kansas | 1.8 | 7.3 | 6.7% |
| Grant County, Kansas | 0.1 | 16.1 | 6.2% |
| Finney County, Kansas | 1.5 | 7.1 | 6.0% |
| Kearny County, Kansas | 0.4 | 13.4 | 5.8% |
Share of output counts oil and gas together, gas at its market-value weight.
Recent permitting
About this chart
Approvals of every permit type per month, the 24 months to Oct 2026. The last bar is Oct 2026 through October 8, 2026 (37 so far), drawn hatched. All 803 approved in the 365 days to October 8, 2026 are permits to drill a new well. Permits to drill a new well: 803 in the 365 days to October 8, 2026 and 211 in the last 90 days of that window. How permits are counted.
Most permits 365 days to October 8, 2026
- In Kansas, 803 well permits were approved in the 365 days to October 8, 2026. Of those, 211 came in the last 90 days of that window. The latest approval on record is dated October 8, 2026.
- All 803 approved in the 365 days to October 8, 2026 are permits to drill a new well. Permits to drill a new well: 803 in the 365 days to October 8, 2026 and 211 in the last 90 days of that window.
Well permits approved per month: full table
| Month | Permits approved |
|---|---|
| Oct 2026 (through October 8, 2026) | 37 |
| Sep 2026 | 74 |
| Aug 2026 | 54 |
| Jul 2026 | 75 |
| Jun 2026 | 94 |
| May 2026 | 96 |
| Apr 2026 | 103 |
| Mar 2026 | 62 |
| Feb 2026 | 35 |
| Jan 2026 | 39 |
| Dec 2025 | 50 |
| Nov 2025 | 48 |
| Oct 2025 | 52 |
| Sep 2025 | 50 |
| Aug 2025 | 52 |
| Jul 2025 | 89 |
| Jun 2025 | 87 |
| May 2025 | 55 |
| Apr 2025 | 43 |
| Mar 2025 | 81 |
| Feb 2025 | 52 |
| Jan 2025 | 64 |
| Dec 2024 | 99 |
| Nov 2024 | 109 |
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
Active drilling rigs
Interactive chart. Focus it and use the left and right arrow keys to read each week, Page Up and Page Down to move a year, Home and End for the ends of the series. The full figures are also in the table below.
- In Kansas, 0 drilling rigs were active in the week to November 6, 2026 (unchanged from a year earlier).
- Since Nov 2016, the weekly count peaked at 3 in Jan 2019.
- The count covers land and inland-water rigs; rigs in US federal offshore waters are counted on the Gulf of Mexico page.
Average active rigs per month: full table
| Month | Oil-directed | Gas-directed | All rigs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2026 (through November 6, 2026) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
What we cover here
Each row names the grain a region’s production is held at. Where a source publishes at a coarser grain, the page says so.
| Data | Grain | Since | Benchmark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas production | well | 1987-01 | ~99% of EIA |
Benchmark cells compare our series with the EIA’s published estimates.
About the EIA comparison
The two are produced differently: the EIA estimates from a survey of the largest operators and a model built to anticipate late filings, while the series compared here are rebuilt from official records as they arrive. Recent months can differ without either being wrong; the methodology page explains both methods.
Coverage rows for Kansas are regenerated at every build from the same catalog of sources the data is built from.
How our Kansas production compares with the EIA
- Our Kansas oil total is 0.9% below the EIA series over July 2023 to June 2026. Those are the last 36 months our own figures have settled.
- Our Kansas natural gas total is 1.3% below the EIA series over April 2023 to March 2026. Those are the last 36 months our own figures have settled.
Why the two differ
The EIA estimates state totals from an operator survey. The series compared here are rebuilt from official records as they arrive. Recent months differ while filings are still arriving. Every region, beside the EIA series and why the two differ.
What the data shows
- Kansas produced 25.2 MMbbl of oil and 119.6 Bcf of natural gas in 2025.
- Kansas oil production peaked in 1987 at 56.2 MMbbl; 2025 output of 25.2 MMbbl ran at 45% of that peak.
- 74,661 producing wells tracked, 12 months to Jun 2026.
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