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Medium Lynn D. Helms,Director Bruce E. Hicks,Assistant Director Oil and Gas Division Edward C. Murphy, Assistant Director Geological Survey,State Geologist Medium https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/ Geological Survey Publishes maps and reports on the mineralogical, paleontological, and geochemical resources of North Dakota. https://www.dmr.nd.gov/oilgas/ Oil and Gas Regulates the drilling and production of oil and natural gas in North Dakota in a manner that will realize the greatest possible good from our state's vitalnatural resources. /dmr/paleontology Paleontology Under ND Geological Survey, the Paleontology Dept manages the public fossil dig program, collections database, and provides both scientific and educational resources about our great state's fossils. The Legislature created the Industrial Commission of North Dakota in 1919 to conduct and manage, on behalf of the State, certain utilities, industries, enterprises, and business projects established by state law. The Industrial Commission has jurisdiction over oil and gas resources, the investigation and publication of geological information and the regulation of coal exploration, geophysical exploration, geothermal energy, paleontology resources, subsurface minerals, geophysical exploration, underground storage and retrieval of nonhydrocarbons, high-level radioactive waste disposal, and carbon dioxide underground storage in North Dakota through the Department of Mineral Resources Geological Survey and Oil and Gas Division.The Industrial Commission appoints the Director of the Department of Mineral Resources, who serves as Director of the Oil and Gas Division and appoints the State Geologist and Assistant Director of the Oil and Gas Division. The North Dakota Geological Survey and the position of State Geologist were created by an act of the North Dakota Legislature in 1895, six years after statehood.During the first half of the 20th Century, the NDGS focused their studies on the coal and clay resources of North Dakota. With the discovery of oil near Tioga in 1951, the NDGS grew rapidly to both research the geology of the petroleum-bearing formations and regulate the exploration, and production of the resource.The Department of Mineral Resources offices are located in Bismarck. The NDGS also operates the Johnsrud Paleontology Laboratory and the Geologic Time Gallery in the North Dakota Heritage Center as well as the recently expanded Wilson M. Laird Core and Sample Library located on the campus of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. The Oil and Gas Division was established by the 1981 Legislature to assume the oil and gas regulatory duties of the NDGS. In 1989 the State Legislature moved the NDGS from the jurisdiction of the Board of Higher Education to the Industrial Commission. Regulation of geophysical exploration was added to the duties of the Oil and Gas Divisionon July 1, 1997.Regulation of underground gathering pipelines was added to the duties of the Oil and Gas Divisionon July 1, 2013. The Oil and Gas Division was approved by the EPA for primacy over Class VI injection wells on April 24, 2018. The Oil and Gas Divisionoperates field offices in Williston, Dickinson, and Minot. The 2003 (58th) Legislature passed an amended Industrial Commission appropriations bill, calling for a merger of the NDGS and the Oil and Gas Divisionto be accomplished by July 1, 2005. On July 1, 2005, legislation passed during the 2005 (59th) Legislative Session placed the NDGS and the Oil and Gas Divisioninto the newly created Department of Mineral Resources. Department of Mineral Resources | 1016 East Calgary Avenue| Bismarck, ND 58503| 701.328.8020

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