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  2. Kansas Geological Survey - Wikipedia

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    Data on Kansas oil and gas production are available through the KGS interactive oil and gas field map. In support of the CO 2 sequestration and enhanced oil recovery project, the Data Resources Library added a large quantity of new oil and gas records and data to its online database, and the Drill Core Library added important new collections to ...

  3. Mid-Continent oil province - Wikipedia

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    The first commercially successful oil well drilled in the area was the Norman No. 1 near Neodesha, Kansas, on November 28, 1892. [1] The successes that followed of the Nellie Johnstone No. 1 at Bartlesville, Oklahoma in 1897, Spindletop at Beaumont, Texas in 1901, and Oklahoma's Ida Glenn No. 1 at the Glenn Pool Oil Reserve in 1905, demonstrated the existence of a large oil field in the ...

  4. Kansas - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 December 2024. U.S. state This article is about the U.S. state. For other uses, see Kansas (disambiguation). State in the United States Kansas State Flag Seal Nickname(s): The Sunflower State (official); The Wheat State; America's Heartland Motto(s): Ad astra per aspera (Latin) To the stars through ...

  5. Petroleum in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2007, state severance taxes amounted to $10.7 billion, mostly from oil, gas, and coal. States also received 50 percent of federal onshore oil and gas lease revenues within their borders, and 27 percent of federal offshore oil and gas revenues adjacent to their shorelines; the state share of federal revenues totalled $2.0 billion in 2007. [45]

  6. Natural gas pipeline system in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Natural gas pipelines map. The US natural gas pipeline system is a complex system of pipelines that carries natural gas nationwide and for import and export for use by millions of people daily for their consumer and commercial needs. Across the country, there are more than 210 pipeline systems that total more than 305,000 miles of interstate ...

  7. Helium production in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Helium production and storage in the United States, 1940-2014 (data from USGS) In 1903, an oil exploration well at Dexter, Kansas, produced a gas that would not burn.. Kansas state geologist Erasmus Haworth took samples of the gas back to the University of Kansas at Lawrence where chemists Hamilton Cady and David McFarland discovered that gas contained 1.84 percent

  8. Midcontinent Rift System - Wikipedia

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    A few deep wells were drilled to explore for oil and gas in rift rocks as far southwest as Kansas. No oil and gas were found, but the explorations did make some deep rock samples available. [ 13 ] These include two "dry holes" drilled by Amoco : a 7,238 ft (2,206 m) well in Alger County, Michigan in 1987 and 1988, and one in Bayfield County ...

  9. Norman No. 1 Oil Well - Wikipedia

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    Norman No. 1 Oil Well Site is the site of an abandoned oil well, located at the northeast corner of Mill and First Streets in Neodesha, Kansas, USA.The well, which was drilled on November 28, 1892, was the first successful well in what is now known as the Mid-Continent oil field, kicking off a major oil boom in states from Kansas to Texas and Louisiana.