Steve Tischer is a senior environmental coordinator for ConocoPhillips with responsibilities to the Mid-Continent Business Unit. Tischer provides internal environmental guidance on due diligence, spill emergency response/remediation, waste disposal options and water issues.

Tischer received his Bachelor of Science in geosciences from the University of Texas at Dallas in 1979 and his master's degree in geology from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin in 2000. He began his career as a petroleum geologist with Coastal Oil & Gas Corp. in Midland, Texas in 1979. With oil price fluctuations in the 1980s, he transitioned into environmental geology to focus on water resource and environmental remediation projects with a consulting firm.

In the early 1990s, Tischer became environmental manager for Parker & Parsley Petroleum, which merged with Mesa Petroleum in 1998 to become Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc. He rejoined the environmental consulting ranks in 1998, where he served as associate vice president for Arcadis with responsibilities for the Corpus Christi and Midland, Texas offices. He returned to the oil industry in 2012 when he moved to his current position with ConocoPhillips.

Tischer is a registered professional geologist in Texas and Wyoming, and is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Society of Petroleum Engineers and the West Texas Geological Society. He has published five times on water resource, groundwater remediation and oil well blowout restoration. He received the Gordon I. Atwater Award in 2001 for his poster on an oil well blowout emergency response, natural resource damage assessment, restoration and remediation project in south Louisiana.