Sweeping Plains > Kansas

Resources Market Infrastructure Policy

Resources: A measure of total energy production and consumption per capita

Market: The cost of consumption, measured in electricity prices and gasoline taxes

Infrastructure: Capacity to generate and refine energy sources; miles of pipelines

17th Resources
30th Market
21st Infrastructure

Kansas produces substantial quantities of natural gas, although marketed production has declined overall since 1995. Natural gas reserves contained within coal seams in the eastern part of the state are estimated to be more than 180 billion cubic feet.

Nine natural gas interstate pipelines cross Kansas. Many of them converge on the Mid-Continent Center in Wichita, a key natural gas supply hub that merges production from several states in the region before piping it east toward major consumption markets.

In 2013, Kansas ranked 10th in crude oil production among the 50 states (excluding the federal offshore areas), and its output represented almost 2% of total U.S. production.

state-kansas

Production trillion btu

253
Oil
336
Gas
0
Coal
18
Wind
0.00
Solar
0
Hydro
58
Biofuel
87
Nuclear

net energy Production trillion btu

-389
+752 Produced
1,141 Consumed

Consumption trillion btu

389
Oil
268
Gas
308
Coal
89
Renewable
87
Nuclear

Gasoline Tax total state + federal, 2014

KS
$0.42
USA
$0.46

Key Policies

  • Requires investor-owned and cooperative electric utilities to obtain 20% of their peak demand capacity by 2020.

  • Requires the use of reformulated gasoline in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

  • Requires a permit and surety bond for oil and gas well drilling. There is no permit fee. Bond fees are 75 cents times the aggregate depth for all wells drilled or operated.

Electricity net production, trillion btu

+14
7.4¢
KS
8.81¢
USA