Oil Field Water Supply

18,464 of the 314,779 WWC-5 records in Kansas — 5.9%.

What this use means

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

Where they are

What stands out for oil field water supply

The busiest contractor on these records is Kelly's Water Well Service, INC, named on 4,985 of them (27.0%), ahead of Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC (2,766) and Rudolph J. Reiser Water Well Service, INC (1,378). The oldest record here was completed in 1972 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 1708 feet — a oil field water supply well drilled by Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC in 1990.

Plugging records — for oil field water supply

3,121 of the 18,464 records for oil field water supply carry a plugging report (16.9%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 15,343 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 11,598 records here completed before 1995, that is exactly what a buyer checks. Why it matters and who pays.

Who drills them

An unplugged well on land in Kansas?

15,343 of the 18,464 records in Kansas 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

The other water uses

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer 85,904
• Domestic 77,399
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden 54,905
• Irrigation 24,315
• Domestic, Livestock 17,552
• Dewatering 6,212
• Environmental Remediation, Air Sparge 4,767
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction 3,980
• Public Water Supply 2,710
• (unstated)/abandoned 2,629
• Geothermal, Closed Loop, Vertical 2,001
• Environmental Remediation, Injection 1,827
• Test hole/well 1,726
• Heat Pump (Closed Loop/Disposal), Geothermal 1,583