Funding is from state resources and matching industry and federal government funds.
Southwest Kansas contains the largest natural gas field in North America and one of the largest in the world. Even with a long history of substantial production, there is no basin-wide study of how best to explore, produce, and regulate gas and oil in the Hugoton basin fields. The goal is to enhance oil and gas producers' understanding of reservoir conditions while providing advanced and cost-effective technologies and concepts to locate new resources and improve recovery from existing reservoirs. The products of the Hugoton project will be made available as completed in electronic and in traditional published formats. They will include written reports, online digital data sets, and visual images of subsurface data.