It is the last Tuesday of the month in southeast Kansas and the KCC kicks back your KOLAR file. Three leases are missing shut-in day counts and one purchaser name does not match the severance tax filing the Kansas Department of Revenue already cross-checked. Your bookkeeper is staring at a field notebook that covers half of one of the leases.
TL;DR: Kansas operators file monthly per-lease production with the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) through the KOLAR portal, due by the last day of the second month following production. Many operators call it OGOR informally, borrowing the federal ONRR term. GreaseBook captures tank gauges, run tickets, gas meter reads, and shut-in days in the field so the KOLAR export is clean before the deadline hits. The submission stays with the operator or the operator’s Kansas filer. Kansas KOLAR is one entry in the broader state production reporting framework operators rely on to keep every state’s monthly filing on rails.
Kansas oil is mostly stripper oil. The Mississippian Lime, the Hugoton, the Arbuckle: thousands of wells averaging a handful of barrels a day, scattered across the state. The filing is straightforward, but Kansas stripper operators run on thin margins and thin staffing. The data chain is where this gets hard.
What Kansas Production Reporting Covers
Monthly production filings in Kansas report:
- Oil produced (barrels) per lease
- Gas produced (MCF)
- Water produced (barrels) for leases with significant water
- Disposition of oil and gas: sold, stored, used on lease
- Purchaser for sold volumes
- Well status: producing, shut-in, plugged, injecting
- Lease and well identifiers assigned by the KCC
Kansas is notable for the dominance of stripper wells. A large fraction of the state’s production comes from wells under 15 barrels per day, and many operators run dozens or hundreds of such wells. The reporting works the same regardless of rate.
When and Where to File
Monthly production reports are typically due by the last day of the second month following production. March production is due by the end of May. Filings go through KOLAR, the KCC’s electronic reporting system.
Kansas operators also file severance tax with the Kansas Department of Revenue separately, and the KDOR filing cross-references the KCC production data.
The Data Chain Behind Kansas Reporting
Kansas stripper operators live or die on field data discipline. With dozens or hundreds of low-rate wells, a single misrecorded tank gauge can throw the monthly off for an entire lease. The chain that has to hold:
- Daily tank gauges across every lease, tied to the wells feeding each battery.
- Run tickets per transport pull, tied to the right lease.
- Gas meter reads where applicable.
- Shut-in day tracking: wells go down in Kansas regularly for rod pump issues, stuck pumps, electrical problems. Days shut-in matter.
- Purchaser statements: reconciled against field totals before submission.
When a Kansas operator is running 150 wells with 2 pumpers and a bookkeeper, the data chain is the business. Miss a week of gauges and you are reconstructing a month. For independents tracking regulatory production reports across several states, the Kansas high-count, low-rate pattern is what makes the data chain the hardest link to keep clean.
How GreaseBook Supports Kansas Stripper Operators
GreaseBook was built for exactly this kind of operation. Kansas stripper work: high well count, low rate per well, small team: is the core workflow the product is designed for.
Pumpers capture the gauge, the run ticket, the shut-in day, and the meter read on a phone or tablet in the field. The operator sees the data the same day it was collected. At month-end, the rollup is already done per lease and per well, with purchaser tagged and shut-in days counted.
The filing still happens through KOLAR: the submission is owned by the operator or the operator’s Kansas filer. What GreaseBook solves is the upstream work. “We used to spend the first two weeks of every month chasing our own data,” a southeast Kansas operator with 85 wells said. “Now the first two weeks are for running the leases.”
GreaseBook was built for high-count, low-rate Kansas operations. Pumpers capture gauges and runs in the field, data rolls up clean.
See how GreaseBook works →Common Kansas Filing Mistakes
- Shut-in wells dropped. A well that went down on the 7th still shows on the filing as 6 producing days plus 24 shut-in days, not as an absent line.
- Gauge errors that compound. On low-rate stripper wells, a 2-barrel gauge error matters. Over 100 wells, it adds up fast.
- Purchaser not matching on the oil side. Kansas operators typically sell to a handful of regional purchasers. Mismatched purchaser names on tickets create reconciliation problems.
- Severance tax and production report inconsistent. The KDOR and KCC cross-reference. Fixing the discrepancy at filing time is cheaper than explaining it to the state later.
- Casinghead gas treated as vented without tracking. Some Kansas operators vent small casinghead volumes. The volumes still get reported, and “we don’t measure it” is not a method.
Phrases to Eliminate in KCC Correspondence
On low-rate Kansas wells, the language on a reply to a KOLAR kickback matters as much as the numbers. Documented measurement closes the file. Vague language opens a severance tax back-check.
| Instead of… | Say… | Why |
|---|---|---|
| “That lease went down for a while” | “Lease 12345 had 18 shut-in days in February, documented on the daily gauge log” | The KCC and the Kansas Department of Revenue audit against measurable shut-in days, not narrative |
| “The pumper missed a couple days of gauges” | “Gauges for February 14 and 15 are reconstructed from the adjacent-day readings and the run ticket on file” | Never tell the KCC a record is missing if you can reconcile it. Show the reconstruction math. |
| “We don’t really measure casinghead” | “Casinghead volumes are reported using the documented calculation method cited on the filing” | “We don’t measure it” is not a method. A cited method passes. |
| “Severance tax is close enough to the production report” | “The KDOR severance filing reconciles to the KCC production report within the purchaser-statement tolerance” | KDOR and KCC cross-reference. Numeric reconciliation closes the loop before either agency asks. |
Identity Framing: What the Best Kansas Operators Do
The best Kansas operators close gauges daily, reconcile purchaser statements before KOLAR opens, and log shut-in days the hour a well goes down. Across the full range of Kansas stripper books (20 to 300 wells), that discipline is the business.
Wrong Fit for This Page
If you are a larger Kansas operator running Quorum or Enertia with integrated severance tax and production reporting, you don’t need help on the field data side. This page is for the typical Kansas stripper operation: 20 to 300 wells, 1 to 3 pumpers, and a month-end that does not forgive sloppy data.
FAQ
Is GreaseBook integrated with the KCC Kolar system?
No. Kolar is where Kansas operators file. GreaseBook is where the OGOR data gets captured clean before the filing step. If you already run an integrated accounting + Kolar submission stack, GreaseBook isn’t replacing that: it’s feeding it better inputs.
What is OGOR for Kansas operators?
OGOR is a general term borrowed from federal ONRR reporting. In Kansas, monthly production data is filed with the Kansas Corporation Commission through the KOLAR system. Many operators call the monthly filing “OGOR” informally.
When is Kansas monthly production reporting due?
Typically by the last day of the second month following production. February production is due by the end of April.
What is KOLAR?
KOLAR (Kansas Online Automated Reporting) is the Kansas Corporation Commission’s electronic filing system for production reports, well permits, and related filings.
Do Kansas stripper wells have to file monthly?
Yes. Every active well on the books files monthly, regardless of rate. Shut-in wells on the books file zero-production lines.
Related Pages
GreaseBook also automates state production reports in Mississippi, Alabama, Wyoming, and Michigan for operators filing across state lines.
- Oil and gas regulatory production reports: the pillar guide to state production filings.
- Oklahoma OCC Form 300R: Oklahoma equivalent for operators working leases across the line.
- Wyoming Form 2: Wyoming monthly filing for Rocky Mountain independents.
GreaseBook puts daily gauges, run tickets, and downtime notes on your screen same-day, so OGOR is an export: not a scavenger hunt through field books. Because the KCC doesn't care why you were late.
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