Hugoton Gas Field

Natural gas in the Hugoton area was first discovered in 1922 in the Boles #1 well, in Seward County, two miles west of Liberal.

In 1929, Argus Pipe Line Company started construction of a pipeline to furnish gas to Dodge City, Kansas.

The Hugoton Field is a stratigraphic trap overlying a monocline, with the primary pay found in the Krider Dolomite of Permian age.

Above these carbonates is the Wichita, an anhydrite and dense dolomite forming the reservoir seal, which thins to the west.

[8] Marine carbonates were being deposited from the Late Pennsylvanian until Early Permian when the western portion of the area was uplifted which resulted in erosion and the deposition of red clays and sands, the future red beds consisting of shales and sandstones.