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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 ProgramDivision 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 now have scanned copies of all Pending Applictions and Notices of Hearing (None pending at this time) and Pending Applications and Notices of Recommendation (Zenergy 13-2010).

  

What We Do
Barker Dome

1929 Drilling Rig, Barker Dome Field - Custer County (click on photo to enlarge)


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.