
Fred Steece - Oil & Gas Supervisor/Geology Specialist (email)
Gerald (Mack) McGillivray - Senior Geologist/Web Page Developer (email)
Welcome to the South Dakota Oil & Gas Section homepage. The Oil & Gas Section is under the Minerals & Mining Program, Division of Environmental Services, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and is located at 2050 W. Main, Suite #1, Rapid City, SD 57702. PH: (605) 394-2229.
We currently have two Oil and Gas Geologic Intern positions available for Summer, 2010. Click Here to see website and announcement. The application deadline is February 5.
In 2008, South Dakota experienced record-breaking oil production and the state’s highest natural gas production in more than a quarter of a century. Click on this press release or this page on our website for more information.
What We Do
The purpose of the Oil & Gas Section is to provide environmental regulation in a customer service oriented manner, and to promote the development of oil and gas resources in the state in a manner that will prevent waste, encourage the greatest economic recovery of oil and gas, and protect correlative rights, ground water resources, the environment and human health.




