Watkins, M.E. 8

API 15051209130000 · Ellis County, Kansas · Bemis-Shutts field

Approved Intent to DrillPlugged 1990-07-01
API
15051209130000
Operator
unavailable
County
Ellis
Field
Bemis-Shutts
Spudded
1973-08-06
Completed
1973-08-14
Plugged
1990-07-01
Measured depth
3,650 ft

Formation tops

Kansas records 16 formations for this well, shallowest first.

FormationTop (ft)Base (ft)
Stone Corral Formation1,343—
Heebner Shale Member3,223—
Lansing Group3,266—
Lansing - Kansas City Supergroup3,276—
Kansas City Group—3,393
Paola Limestone Member—3,399
Cement City Limestone Member3,418—
Quivira Shale Member—3,424
Drum Limestone Member3,435—
Block Limestone Member—3,437
Winterset Limestone Member3,455—
Canville Limestone Member—3,460
Bethany Falls Limestone Member3,482—
Simpson Group3,550—
Arbuckle Group3,569—
Pennsylvanian System—3,570

A dash is a formation Kansas records for this well without a depth. In the base column a dash is also a depth Kansas’s sources record differently from one another.

Location

39.124053, -99.292221

39.12405, -99.29222 · Surface location as filed with Kansas

Every well in Ellis County, Kansas

Kansas state record, from KS_wells_ks_wells.parquet. Corpus built 2026-09-11.