Where are oil and natural gas found in Kansas?
Oil and natural gas have been found in 93 of the 105 counties in the state. While initial oil and gas exploration focused on eastern Kansas, the largest areas of oil production today are in central Kansas (such as Butler County) and along a feature called the Central Kansas Uplift in Russell, Ellis, and other counties. Much of the state’s natural gas production comes from the Hugoton Natural Gas Area in southwestern Kansas, one of the largest natural gas fields in the world. For more information about the Hugoton, see http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/pic5/pic5_1.html. We also have an online Top Ten list of oil and gas production. For more information about oil and gas in the state, see the KGS Oil and Gas Index page.
