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. Every one of those wells files monthly production data with the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC), and the reporting lives under the umbrella that many operators call OGOR (Oil and Gas Operations Report), borrowed from the federal ONRR term.

Kansas-specific production reporting is handled through KOLAR (the KCC’s Kansas Online Automated Reporting system) and the associated production reporting forms. Kansas operators report monthly production per lease (with per-well data for some categories), plus disposition, purchaser, and well status. The data feeds the KCC’s conservation oversight and the Kansas Department of Revenue’s severance tax calculation.

The filing is straightforward, but Kansas stripper operators tend to run on thin margins and thin staffing. The data chain is where this gets hard.

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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:

  1. Daily tank gauges across every lease, tied to the wells feeding each battery.
  2. Run tickets per transport pull, tied to the right lease.
  3. Gas meter reads where applicable.
  4. Shut-in day tracking: wells go down in Kansas regularly for rod pump issues, stuck pumps, electrical problems. Days shut-in matter.
  5. 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.

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.”

Kansas stripper economics don't have room for a month-end data hunt.

GreaseBook was built for high-count, low-rate Kansas operations. Pumpers capture gauges and runs in the field, data rolls up clean.

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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.

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.

About the author: Greg Archbald is the founder of GreaseBook. He built the product from inside the oil patch and has spent 15+ years on the operator side of oil and gas technology.

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**P.S.** If you are operating in Kansas and one other state, the OGOR format is usually the outlier that breaks your month-end. Getting a tool that handles Kansas plus the other states native is worth more than a Kansas-only workaround.