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South Dakota oil and gas wells
2,137 wells on record: 386 active, 1,417 plugged. Source: South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Geological Survey Program, data as of 2026-10-01.
Top 50 operators by active wells
Wells by county
- Aurora 1
- Beadle 1
- Bennett 3
- Bon Homme 2
- Brown 1
- Brule 2
- Buffalo 4
- Butte 134
- Campbell 7
- Charles Mix 4
- Codington 1
- Corson 32
- Custer 94
- Day 1
- Dewey 43
- Douglas 1
- Fall River 457
- Faulk 1
- Gregory 8
- Haakon 45
- Harding 947
- Hughes 13
- Hutchinson 1
- Hyde 4
- Jackson 15
- Jerauld 1
- Jones 11
- Kingsbury 1
- Lawrence 7
- Lincoln 2
- Lyman 9
- Mccook 1
- Meade 75
- Mellette 5
- Miner 2
- Moody 1
- Oglala Lakota 8
- Pennington 45
- Perkins 33
- Potter 5
- Spink 11
- Stanley 42
- Sully 2
- Todd 3
- Tripp 17
- Turner 2
- Union 6
- Walworth 6
- Yankton 2
- Ziebach 18