Oil Field Water Supply wells in Seward County

734 of the 2,995 WWC-5 records in Seward County — 24.5% — are recorded for oil field water supply.

How this group compares

Seward County holds 4.0% of the 18,464 oil field water supply records in Kansas, while holding 1.0% of the register overall — so this use is over-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 Bernard E. Carlile Water Well Service, INC, named on 309 of them (42.1%), ahead of Howard Drilling Company Ag, LLC (245) and T & W Water Well Serv., INC (128). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2020, and the deepest well on file reaches 500 feet — a oil field water supply well drilled by Howard Drilling Company Ag, LLC in 1996.

Plugging records — for oil field water supply in Seward County

123 of the 734 records for oil field water supply in Seward County carry a plugging report (16.8%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 611 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 493 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 Seward County?

611 of the 734 records in Seward 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 2,995 records in Seward County, and every oil field water supply record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Clay 797
• Domestic — Norton 793
• Oil Field Water Supply — Rice 781
• Domestic — Rice 771
• Irrigation — Stafford 770
• Domestic — Ellsworth 759
• Domestic — Pawnee 733
• Domestic — Sherman 724
• Irrigation — Stevens 724
• Oil Field Water Supply — Kingman 699
• Domestic — Washington 684