New Mexico Administrative Code

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Energy and Minerals Department, Oil Conservation Division, P.O. Box 2088, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Any change in the forms and reports or rules relating to such forms and reports shall be made only by order of the commission or division issued after due notice and hearing.

Energy and Minerals Department, Oil Conservation Division, P.O. Box 2088, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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A. Any person who has drilled or is drilling or proposes to drill any geothermal resources well shall post with the division, and obtain approval thereof, a bond, in a form approved by the division, conditioned to plug such well, if non-productive or when abandoned, in such a way…

Energy and Minerals Department, Oil Conservation Division, P.O. Box 2088, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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A. Prior to the commencement of operations, the owner or operator of any proposed well to be drilled for geothermal exploration, production, observation, or thermal gradient, or for injection or disposal purposes, shall file division form G-101, application for permit to drill, d…

Energy and Minerals Department, Oil Conservation Division, P.O. Box 2088, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Each well, other than a thermal gradient well, shall be identified by a sign, posted on the drilling rig or not more than 20 feet from the well. Such sign shall be of durable construction and the lettering thereon kept in legible condition. Lettering shall be such that under norm…

Energy and Minerals Department, Oil Conservation Division, P.O. Box 2088, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

A. The division director shall have the authority to grant an exception to the well location requirements of Rules B (1), (2), and (3) [now Subsections A, B and C of 19.14.23.9 NMAC] above without notice and hearing when such application is based upon topographical or geologic or…

Whenever an exception to the well location requirements is granted, the division after hearing may take such action as may be necessary to offset any advantage the person securing the exception may gain over other owners within the same geothermal reservoir.

In order to prevent waste and protect correlative rights, the division may, after notice and hearing, adopt different well location requirements and greater or lesser acreage dedication requirements than those contained in Rules G-104 B (1), (2), and (3) [now Subsections A, B and…

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A. Any well, other than a thermal gradient well, a geothermal observation well or a low-temperature thermal well, which is drilled a distance of one mile or more outside the boundary of any defined geothermal field and a distance of one mile or more beyond any well which is withi…

A. Exploration wells. A well classified as an exploratory well shall be located on a designated drilling tract comprising at least 40 surface acres (being a quarter-quarter section of the U. S. public land surveys, or a projection thereof if on unsurveyed land), and shall be loca…

Energy and Minerals Department, Oil Conservation Division, P.O. Box 2088, Santa Fe, New Mexico.