•  PIERRE, S.D. - The South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has added oil and gas production data to an Interactive Oil and Gas Initiative Map online where the public can now easily view how much oil and gas has been produced.
• Oil and gas production data, which used to be hard to obtain, is now available in a variety of formats. Production data can be found for each and every well that has been drilled in South Dakota, either in searchable databases or by clicking on an individual well on the interactive map. DENR went a step further and has also provided links to the interactive map and searchable databases that show total production data by month and year for entire oil and gas fields and enhanced recovery units. Injection data for underground injection wells is also available.
•  The online database companion to the interactive oil and gas map contains a listing of the names of the geologic formations drilled through for each well, the depth of the formation top, the geologic age of each formation and its elevation. Now this geologic data and other well information can be exported to an Excel spreadsheet in a way that allows users to download only the data they are interested in rather than the entire database.
• "It was painstaking detail work by DENR's geologists to successfully add these new functions to DENR's Interactive Oil and Gas Initiative Map, but the end products will be very useful to oil and gas companies working in South Dakota," said DENR Secretary Steve Pirner.
•  To view the new interactive map, visit http://denr.sd.gov/.