Buzz Skretteberg: Voice of experience

Retired oil man wants South Dakota communities to get the best, avoid the worst, from an oil boom should drilling move south

Steve Sutherlin

For Petroleum News Bakken

In 1974, Forrest “Buzz” Skretteberg got a job offer from Superior Oil Co. The job title was “environmental geologist.” He jumped on it. That was the beginning of Skretteberg’s employment in the oil industry. Skretteberg, who lives in Spearfish, S.D., has retired, but the surge in oil and gas activit....

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