HISTORY
Initially formed in 1980 to provide wellsite geological support for various operators in the North Texas area, it quickly seized the opportunity of those “boom times” to expand into drilling and operating, with over 500 wells  in its care by 1985. The firm drilled several new field discoveries, from South Texas to the Williston Basin of North Dakota.

From 1986 through 1988, Discovery focused primarily on research and development of oil and gas potential in the fractured Mancos Shale with Gary Williams Company in the San Juan Basin and the Mission Canyon on the eastern flank of the Williston Basin, both of which resulted in successful drilling. The company focused primarily on the Williston Basin from 1993 through 1996.

After a buyout of DGSC's Williston Basin interests by Lyco Energy in 1996, Mr. Lewis (the president) served as VP-Exploration for Lyco for 8 years, where he was responsible for the initiation of the extremely successful and famous Middle Bakken Play in the Williston Basin, which is now producing over 1 Million BOPD from prolific unconventional horizontal oil wells.

Then, with GeoFocus from 2004 to 2006, the company identified and directed Brigham and others into very successful areas of the Middle Bakken Play.

From 2007 to 2012, DGSC identified and managed the first shale gas in Europe by providing all of the geological support for 3Legs Resources, which drilled several wells (both vertical and horizontal) on its million acres of concessions in evaluation of a very large shale gas deposit in the Baltic Basin of northern Poland. This was sold to ConocoPhillips and finally to the Polish Oil and Gas Company with the collapse of oil prices in 2016.