The Hugoton (Chase and Council Grove) formation
Geology, footprint, and mineral-owner context for the Hugoton (Chase and Council Grove), drawn from public USGS and state survey sources. Resource figures describe the play as a whole and are not a per-acre value. Every figure on this page is an estimate subject to verification of your specific interest.
Last updated June 2026.
What is the Hugoton (Chase and Council Grove)?
The Hugoton is one of the largest conventional gas fields in North America, a Permian Chase Group and Council Grove (Panoma) carbonate and shale gas accumulation on the Hugoton Embayment shelf of the Anadarko Basin, spanning southwest Kansas plus the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. It is a mature, long-life shallow gas field.
The Hugoton is one of the largest conventional gas fields ever found in North America. It is a Permian accumulation in the Chase Group and the underlying Council Grove (the Panoma part of the field), a sequence of shallow carbonates and shales draped across the Hugoton Embayment shelf of the Anadarko Basin. The field spans southwest Kansas, including Stevens, Grant, Finney, Haskell, Kearny, Morton, and Seward counties, and continues into the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. Unlike the modern shale plays, the Hugoton is a mature, long-life, shallow gas field that has produced for many decades and now declines slowly and predictably. For a mineral owner, a Hugoton royalty is a depletion-style, long-life gas asset, valued on the standard income multiple applied to the checks your wells actually pay rather than on any new-drilling upside.
Hugoton (Chase and Council Grove) geology
- Age and lithology
- Permian Chase Group and Council Grove carbonates and shales, a shallow conventional gas accumulation. Source: USGS Anadarko Basin Province assessment and Kansas Geological Survey.
- Hugoton Embayment shelf
- The field sits on the Hugoton Embayment shelf of the Anadarko Basin, where the gas is trapped across a broad, shallow shelf rather than in a deep basin center.
- Where it produces
- Southwest Kansas (Stevens, Grant, Finney, Haskell, Kearny, Morton, Seward) plus the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles; the Council Grove interval is the Panoma part of the field.
How much oil and gas the Hugoton (Chase and Council Grove) holds
The Hugoton is a mature, long-life field that has produced for many decades, and the USGS has assessed remaining and undiscovered, technically recoverable gas for the Anadarko Basin Province that includes the Hugoton area. Any such figure is a play-wide or province-wide estimate, not proven reserves and not a measure of any individual property.
Source: USGS Anadarko Basin Province assessment; Kansas Geological Survey Hugoton studies.
What the Hugoton (Chase and Council Grove) means for your minerals
A resource estimate for a play is not the value of your acreage. Your mineral and royalty interest is valued on the income your wells actually pay, roughly 36 to 72 times your average monthly royalty check, the same as 3 to 6 times your annual royalty. Where you land in that band depends on your wells decline, the operator, your royalty rate, and any undeveloped drilling upside. For the full method and a free on-screen estimate, see what are my mineral rights worth.
The Hugoton (Chase and Council Grove) is part of the Anadarko Basin. For the basin-wide value bands and the counties we buy in, see the Anadarko Basin page.
Hugoton (Chase and Council Grove) questions
- What is the Hugoton gas field?
- The Hugoton is one of the largest conventional gas fields in North America, a Permian Chase Group and Council Grove (Panoma) carbonate and shale accumulation on the Hugoton Embayment shelf of the Anadarko Basin. It spans southwest Kansas plus the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles.
- Is the Hugoton still producing?
- Yes. The Hugoton is a mature, long-life shallow gas field that has produced for many decades. It declines slowly and predictably, which is why it is treated as a depletion-style, long-life income asset rather than a new-drilling growth play.
- How are Hugoton minerals valued?
- A Hugoton interest is valued on the income it pays, roughly 36 to 72 times your average monthly royalty check, reflecting its long-life, slow-decline gas character. USGS resource figures describe the whole field or province, not your property. This is an estimate, subject to verification, not an offer.
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