Oil Field Water Supply wells in Gray County

163 of the 3,079 WWC-5 records in Gray County — 5.3% — are recorded for oil field water supply.

How this group compares

Gray County holds 0.9% of the 18,464 oil field water supply records in Kansas, while holding 1.0% of the register overall — so this use is under-represented here.

water for drilling and production. Not a supply anyone drinks from, and it explains clusters of wells where there are few houses.

What stands out among these

The busiest contractor on these records is Joe's Well Service, INC, named on 38 of them (23.3%), ahead of Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC (31) and Bernard E. Carlile Water Well Service, INC (29). The oldest record here was completed in 1976 and the most recent in 2022, and the deepest well on file reaches 420 feet — a oil field water supply well drilled by Howard Drilling Company Ag, LLC in 2006.

Plugging records — for oil field water supply in Gray County

20 of the 163 records for oil field water supply in Gray County carry a plugging report (12.3%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 143 do not.

That is not a list of abandoned wells, and this site never calls them that. Kansas defines abandonment by use — a well unused for two years — and nothing in this register tracks use. What the absence of a plugging report does mean is that the State has never been told the well was sealed. On the 136 records here completed before 1995, that is exactly what a buyer checks. Why it matters and who pays.

Who drilled them

An unplugged well on land in Gray County?

143 of the 163 records in Gray County have no plugging report on file. If a well on your land is no longer used, Kansas requires it to be plugged and the duty falls on the landowner — with cost-share of up to USD 1,000 per well through the Kansas Department of Agriculture. This site reads the register; it does not drill and it does not plug. Tell us where and we pass the request to licensed Kansas well contractors.

We recommend no contractor 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 records

Part of a bigger picture: all 3,079 records in Gray County, and every oil field water supply record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic, Livestock — Smith 173
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Wabaunsee 173
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction — Wyandotte 173
• Oil Field Water Supply — Comanche 167
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction — Ford 166
• Domestic, Livestock — Decatur 163
• Oil Field Water Supply — Mcpherson 162
• Public Water Supply — Sedgwick 162
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Republic 160
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Clark 159
• Irrigation — Morton 158