Approximately 145 new fields and pools were discovered in Kansas during the year 1954, most of which were named as new discoveries by the Nomenclature Committee of the Kansas Geological Society. The total of 145 discoveries includes 124 oil discoveries, 20 gas discoveries, and one discovery for both oil and gas. In addition there were 15 discoveries of deeper production in previously producing pools; there were 37 discoveries of shallower production in previously producing pools. Of the total discoveries, 30 were of the new-field classification, the remainder new-pool discoveries.

Kansas produced 118,309,260 barrels of oil, 4,613,869 barrels of natural gasoline and LPG, and 405,841,947 MCF of gas in 1954.

There were no successful wildcats in Iowa, Missouri, or Nebraska; however, the latter state did have one successful deeper-pool test, in Richardson County.

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