Chapter 70, Article 2 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Oil and Gas Act”. History: 1953 Comp., § 65-3-1.1, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 237, § 1; 1989, ch. 130, § 13. ANNOTATIONS The 1989 amendment, effective June 16, 1989, substituted “Chapter 70, Article 2 NMSA 1978” for “Sections 65-3-1.1 through 65-3-31 and 65-3-35 […]
If any person of whom an oath shall be required under the provisions of this act, or by any rule, regulation or order of the commission or division, shall willfully swear falsely in regard to any matter or thing respecting which such oath is required, or shall willfully make any false report or affidavit required […]
A. The division is hereby empowered, and it is its duty, to prevent waste prohibited by this act and to protect correlative rights, as in this act provided. To that end, the division is empowered to make and enforce rules, regulations and orders, and to do whatever may be reasonably necessary to carry out the […]
A. The oil conservation division of the energy, minerals and natural resources department may: (1) collect data; (2) make investigations and inspections; (3) examine properties, leases, papers, books and records; (4) examine, check, test and gauge oil and gas wells, tanks, plants, refineries and all means and modes of transportation and equipment; (5) hold hearings; […]
No permit shall be required from the state engineer for the disposition of produced water in accordance with rules promulgated pursuant to Section 70-2-12 NMSA 1978 by the oil conservation division of the energy, minerals and natural resources department. History: Laws 2004, ch. 87, § 1. ANNOTATIONS Effective dates. — Laws 2004, ch. 87 contained […]
A. No rule shall be adopted pursuant to the Oil and Gas Act until after a hearing by the commission. B. Any rule adopted under the Oil and Gas Act shall be filed and published in accordance with the State Rules Act [Chapter 14, Article 4 NMSA 1978]. No rule shall be filed until the […]
In addition to the powers and authority, either express or implied, granted to the oil conservation commission or division by virtue of the statutes of the state of New Mexico, the division is hereby authorized and empowered in prescribing its rules of order or procedure in connection with hearings or other proceedings before the division […]
A. Each person, firm, corporation or association who operates any oil, gas or service well within the state shall, as a condition precedent to drilling or producing the well, furnish financial assurance in the form of an irrevocable letter of credit or a cash or surety bond or a well-specific plugging insurance policy pursuant to […]
Whenever, to prevent waste, the division limits the total amount of crude petroleum oil to be produced in this state, it shall allocate or distribute the allowable productions among the fields of the state. Such allocation or distribution among the fields of the state shall be made on a reasonable basis, giving, if reasonable under […]
A. Whenever, to prevent waste, the total allowable production of crude petroleum oil for any field or pool in the state is fixed by the oil conservation division in an amount less than that which the field or pool could produce if no restriction were imposed, the division shall prorate or distribute the allowable production […]
A. The rules, regulations or orders of the division shall, so far as it is practicable to do so, afford to the owner of each property in a pool the opportunity to produce his just and equitable share of the oil or gas, or both, in the pool, being an amount, so far as can […]
A. Whenever the operator of any oil or gas well shall dedicate lands comprising a standard spacing or proration unit to an oil or gas well, it shall be the obligation of the operator, if two or more separately owned tracts of land are embraced within the spacing or proration unit, or where there are […]
A. Every person now engaged or hereafter engaging in the business of purchasing oil to be transported through pipelines shall be a common purchaser thereof and shall, without discrimination in favor of one producer as against another in the same field, purchase all oil tendered to it which has been lawfully produced in the vicinity […]
ANNOTATIONS Repeals. — Laws 1981, ch. 362, § 3, repeals 70-2-20 NMSA 1978, relating to penalty for violations. For present provisions, see 70-2-31 NMSA 1978, effective June 19, 1981.
A. The sale or purchase or acquisition, or the transportation, refining, processing or handling in any other way, of crude petroleum oil or natural gas in whole or in part produced in excess of the amount allowed by any statute of this state, or by any provision of this act, or by any rule, regulation […]
A. The division is specifically authorized and directed to make such rules, regulations and orders, and may provide for such certificates of clearance or tenders, as may be necessary to make effective the prohibitions contained in Section 70-2-21 NMSA 1978. B. Unless and until the division provides for certificates of clearance or tenders, or some […]
Except as provided for herein, before any rule, regulation or order, including revocation, change, renewal or extension thereof, shall be made under the provisions of this act, a public hearing shall be held at such time, place and manner as may be prescribed by the division. The division shall first give reasonable notice of such […]
The reports, estimates, findings of fact or similar documents or findings of the United States bureau of mines, or of any other department or agency of the United States government, or of any bureau or agency under an interstate compact to which the state of New Mexico is a party made with respect to the […]
A. Within twenty days after entry of an order or decision of the commission, a party of record adversely affected may file with the commission an application for rehearing in respect of any matter determined by the order or decision, setting forth the respect in which the order or decision is believed to be erroneous. […]
The secretary of energy, minerals and natural resources may hold a public hearing to determine whether an order or decision issued by the commission contravenes the public interest. The hearing shall be held within twenty days after the entry of the commission order or decision following a rehearing or after the order refusing a rehearing. […]
