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 Utilities
Engineers within the utilities do more than draw lines from power source to appliance. Because the customer expects lights every time she flips the switch and fire every time he lights the stove, engineers are constantly working to:
- Plan for future demand
- Protect systems from failure and attack
- Provide communications to pinpoint and resolve problems
- Teach consumers about conservation
- Discover and implement Automated Meters and other Smart Grid technologies
 Oil and gas production
Geologists and engineers discover and measure the reserves that will power our cars, heat our homes and deliver our products for years to come. Black Hills Exploration & Production engineers are tasked with efficiently getting these resources out of the ground and into the market place. Most of Black Hills Gas Resources production and reserves are located in northern New Mexico in the San Juan Basin. We are pleased with the cooperative working relationship we have established with the Jicarilla Apache Nation, on whose land our program is primarily based. An active drilling program is expected to progress for a number of years to come — not only based on the strength of existing reserves but also on our belief that additional reserves may be discovered in deeper, under-explored horizons.
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