During 1958 there were 163 new-field and new-pool discoveries in Kansas named by the Kansas Nomenclature Committee of the Kansas Geological Society. The total of 163 discoveries includes 144 oil discoveries, 12 gas discoveries, and 7 for oil and gas. In addition there were 16 discoveries of deeper production in previously producing pools; there were 40 discoveries of shallower production in previously producing pools. Of the total new discoveries, 21 were in the new-field category, the remainder new-pool discoveries.

Kansas produced 119,942,094 bbls. of oil, 5,361,339 bbls. of natural gasoline and LPG, and 535,937,434 MCF of natural gas in 1958.

There were no successful wildcat tests in Iowa or Nebraska (east of the 98th Meridian), and 2 successful new-pool wildcats in Missouri.

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