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Home My WebLink AboutBIO-Com_Dan_Seamount COMMISSIONER DAN SEAMOUNT PETROLEUM GEOLOGY Commissioner Daniel “Dan” T. Seamount, Jr. is the longest-serving commissioner in the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission history. He was first appointed to the Geologist seat in 2000 and was reappointed to full six-year terms in 2005, 2011, and 2017. He also served as the Chair from 2008 to 2012. As a commissioner, he worked on many Alaskan issues including regulation of all 50+ Alaska oil and gas fields, North Slope natural gas, Cook Inlet Energy supply challenges, hydraulic fracturing, statute and regulation modifications, investigations of many minor and major incidents, and the advances of energy sources such as coal bed methane, geothermal, and underground coal gasification, and much more. Before his appointment to the AOGCC, Commissioner Seamount served as a senior advising geologist for Unocal; and prior to that, he worked for Marathon Oil Company and Chevron U.S.A. His 27 years of experience in the oil and gas industry involved oil, gas, and geothermal exploration and development in California, the Rocky Mountains, the mid-continent, and Alaska. Commissioner Seamount holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Geology from the University of California at Riverside. He resides in Eagle River and thrives on outdoor activities that Alaska provides.