SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s oil and gas production is a fraction of North Dakota’s, though the organizer of a conference this week in Spearfish said the southern neighbor could prosper if companies step up to supply much-needed products and services to the burgeoning oil patch.

“It’s literally like the gold boom rush of the start of the Black Hills’ explosive growth,” said Branden Bestgen, also the Sturgis City Council president. “But it’s with an oil boom.”