For one, all the Intents to Drill oil and/or gas wells are posted and searchable here - Kansas Intents to Drill. At least for the past year. The Intent to Drill form has much information about the proposed well - including who are involved, what kind of a well it is, the intended pay zone information, whether it is a vertical or horizontal well, location, and much, much more. These are pdf files. The site also has monthly plugging reports on all plugged oil and gas wells and a lot of other information.
What does not seem to be available are the well completion reports showing how the well was completed - pipe used, cementing regimes, mudding data, etc., etc. While the intents are useful in tracking new wells likely to be drilled, and the plugging reports are useful for finding out what wells were plugged, it is the completion reports that are so valuable for assessing if the wells are being completed correctly. This is likely just an oversight by the KCC (cough, cough) that I'm sure will be remedied soon.
And the Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) also has oil and gas industry information, including maps of all the oil and gas producing zones in the state, annual production reports, and much much more. Use this link for the KGS oil and gas pages. If you can't find something after visiting these two pages, call the agency.
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