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New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 20 - OIL PRORATION AND ALLOCATION › Section 19.15.20.9 - RATE OF PRODUCING WELLS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
				Daily tolerance.
(1) Oil wells located on
				units capable of producing their allowables may overproduce one day and
				underproduce another. No unit capable of producing its allowable, except for
				the purpose of testing, in the process of completing or recompleting a well or
				for tests made for the purpose of obtaining scientific data, shall produce any
				day more than 125 percent of the daily top proration unit allowable for the
				pool in which the well is located. (Subject to the foregoing, an
				underproduction may be made up by production from the same unit within the same
				month, and in like manner any overproduction shall be adjusted or balanced by
				underproduction from the same unit, within the same proration
				period).
(2) Certain wells must, as
				a matter of practicality, be produced at daily rates in excess of 125 percent
				of the daily top proration unit allowable for the pool in which the wells are
				located. The director may grant exceptions to the provisions of Paragraph (1)
				of Subsection A of 19.15.20.9 NMAC, without formal hearing, where an operator
				has filed application setting out the reasons for the requested exception.
(a) Applicants for the exceptions shall, at
				the time of filing, furnish each operator in the pool in which the well is
				located a copy of the application.
(b) The applicant shall include in an
				application for exception or attach to the application a formal written
				statement that the applicant has served every operator in the pool in which the
				well is located with a copy of the application.
(3) The director shall wait at least 10 days
				after receipt before approving the application, and shall approve the
				application only in absence of objection from an operator or interested party,
				or in the director's discretion. In the event the director fails to approve the
				application, the division after notice shall hear and determine the
				matter.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 20 - OIL PRORATION AND ALLOCATION › Section 19.15.20.11 - AUTHORIZATION FOR PRODUCTION OF OIL WHILE COMPLETING, RECOMPLETING OR TESTING AN OIL WELL

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A. If an
				operator does not have sufficient lease storage to hold oil produced from a
				well during its drilling, completing, recompleting or testing, the operator may
				produce and sell from the well an amount of oil necessary to drill, complete,
				recomplete or test the well; provided however, that the operator shall file
				with the division a written application stating the circumstances at the well
				and setting forth in the application the estimated amount of oil to be produced
				during the aforementioned operations, and provided further that the division
				approves the application. Oil produced during drilling, completion or
				recompletion or testing a well shall be charged against the well's allowable
				production.
B. The division shall
				not place a well on the proration schedule until the operator files with the
				division and the division approves the form C-104.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 20 - OIL PRORATION AND ALLOCATION › Section 19.15.20.12 - DEPTH BRACKET ALLOWABLES

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A.
				Subject to the market demand percentage factor determined pursuant to
				19.15.20.10 NMAC, the daily oil allowable for each oil pool in the state shall
				equal the appropriate depth bracket allowable below. The depth of the casing
				shoe or the top perforation in the casing, whichever is higher, in the first
				well completed in the pool shall determine the pool's depth classification.
				Daily oil allowables for each of the several ranges of depth and spacing
				patterns are as follows, shown in barrels:
POOL DEPTH RANGE
DEPTH BRACKET ALLOWABLE
40 Acres
80 Acres
160 Acres
0 to 4999 feet
80
160
5000 to 5999
107
187
347
6000 to 6999
142
222
382
7000 to 7999
187
267
427
8000 to 8999
230
310
470
9000 to 9999
275
355
515
10,000 to 10,999
320
400
560
11,000 to 11,999
365
445
605
12,000 to 12,999
410
490
650
13,000 to 13,999
455
535
695
14,000 to 14,999
500
580
740
15,000 to 15,999
545
625
785
16,000 to 16,999
590
670
830
17,000 and deeper
635
715
875
B.
				The 40-acre depth bracket allowables apply to all undesignated wells not
				governed by special pool orders and to all pools developed on the normal
				40-acre statewide spacing unit.
C.
				The 80-acre and 160-acre depth bracket allowables apply to wells governed by
				applicable special pool orders the division issues as an exception to the
				normal 40-acre statewide spacing unit.
D. The division may, where deemed
				appropriate, assign to a given pool a special depth bracket allowable at
				variance to the depth bracket allowable normally assigned to a pool of similar
				depth and spacing. The special allowable may be more or less than the regular
				depth bracket allowable and shall be assigned only after notice and
				hearing.
E. In assigning a lesser
				than regular depth bracket allowable, the division may consider, among other
				pertinent factors, reservoir damage, casinghead gas production and disposition,
				water production and disposition, transportation facilities, the prevention of
				surface or underground waste and the protection of correlative
				rights.
F. The division shall
				assign a greater than regular depth bracket allowable only after sufficient
				reservoir information is available to ensure that the allowable can be produced
				without damage to the reservoir and without causing surface or underground
				waste. The division shall also consider the availability of oil transportation
				and marketing facilities; casinghead gas transportation, processing and
				marketing facilities; water disposal facilities; the protection of correlative
				rights; and other pertinent factors.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 20 - OIL PRORATION AND ALLOCATION › Section 19.15.20.13 - GAS-OIL RATIO LIMITATION

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
				In allocated pools containing a well or wells producing from a reservoir that
				contains both oil and gas, each proration unit shall produce only that volume
				of gas equivalent to the applicable limiting gas-oil ratio multiplied by the
				pool's top unit oil allowable. In the event the division has not set a gas-oil
				ratio limit for a particular oil pool, the limiting gas-oil ratio shall be 2000
				cubic feet of gas for each barrel of oil produced. In allocated oil pools the
				division shall place all producing wells, whether oil or casinghead gas, on the
				oil proration schedule.
B. Unless
				specifically exempted by division order issued after hearing, the division
				shall place a gas-oil ratio limitation on all allocated oil pools, and penalize
				all proration units having a gas-oil ratio exceeding the pool's limit in
				accordance with the following procedure.
(1)
				A proration unit that, on the basis of the latest official gas-oil ratio test,
				has a gas-oil ratio that exceeds the limiting gas-oil ratio and has the
				capacity to produce above the top casinghead gas volume calculated by
				Subsection A of 19.15.20.13 NMAC for the pool in which it is located may
				produce daily that number of barrels of oil that the division determines by
				multiplying the current top proration unit allowable by a fraction, the
				numerator of which shall be the limiting gas-oil ratio for the pool and the
				denominator of which shall be the well's official test gas-oil ratio, and the
				proration unit shall be designated non-marginal.
(2) A unit containing a well or wells
				producing from a reservoir that contains both oil and gas shall produce only
				that volume of gas equivalent to the applicable limiting gas-oil ratio
				multiplied by the top proration unit allowable currently assigned to the
				pool.
(3) A marginal unit may
				produce the same volume of gas that it would be permitted to produce if it were
				a non-marginal unit.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 20 - OIL PRORATION AND ALLOCATION › Section 19.15.20.14 - UNITIZED AREAS

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After petition and notice and hearing, the division may
				  approve the combining of contiguous developed proration units into a unitized
				  area.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 20 - OIL PRORATION AND ALLOCATION › Section 19.15.20.15 - RECOVERED LOAD OIL

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. An
				operator may run recovered load oil from the lease on which it is recovered,
				provided the operator obtains division approval of form C-126. The operator
				shall file form C-126 with the appropriate division district office. Upon
				approval, the division shall return one copy to the operator and send one copy
				to the designated transporter as authority to transport the oil.
B. 19.15.20.15 NMAC applies only to oil that
				has been obtained from a source other than the lease on which it is
				used.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 21 - GAS PRORATION AND ALLOCATION › Section 19.15.21.2 - SCOPE

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19.15.21 NMAC applies to persons engaged in gas development
				  and production within New Mexico.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 21 - GAS PRORATION AND ALLOCATION › Section 19.15.21.3 - STATUTORY AUTHORITY

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19.15.21 NMAC is adopted pursuant to the Oil and Gas Act,
				  NMSA 1978, Section
				  70-2-6,
				  Section
				  70-2-11,
				  Section
				  70-2-12,
				  Section
				  70-2-16
				  and Section
				  70-2-17.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 21 - GAS PRORATION AND ALLOCATION › Section 19.15.21.5 - EFFECTIVE DATE

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
December 1, 2008, unless a later date is cited at the end of
				  a section.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 21 - GAS PRORATION AND ALLOCATION › Section 19.15.21.6 - OBJECTIVE

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
To establish requirements implementing the division's
				  statutory authority to prorate and allocate gas production to prevent waste and
				  protect correlative rights.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 21 - GAS PRORATION AND ALLOCATION › Section 19.15.21.8 - ALLOCATION OF GAS PRODUCTION

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
When the division determines that allocation of gas
				  production in a designated gas pool is necessary to prevent waste the division,
				  after notice and hearing, shall consider the nominations of purchasers from
				  that gas pool and other relevant data, fix the pool's allowable production and
				  allocate production among the gas wells in the pool delivering to a gas
				  transportation facility upon a reasonable basis and recognizing correlative
				  rights. The division shall include in the pool's proration schedule gas wells
				  that the division finds are being unreasonably discriminated against through
				  denial of access to a gas transportation facility that is reasonably capable of
				  handling the type of gas the wells produce.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 21 - GAS PRORATION AND ALLOCATION › Section 19.15.21.9 - PRORATION PERIOD

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The proration period shall be at least six months and the
				  division shall make the pool allowable and allocations of the pool allowable at
				  least 30 days prior to each proration period.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 21 - GAS PRORATION AND ALLOCATION › Section 19.15.21.10 - ADJUSTMENT OF ALLOWABLES

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
When the actual market demand from an allocated gas pool
				  during a proration period is more than or less than the allowable the division
				  set for the pool for the period, the division shall adjust the gas proration
				  unit allowables for the pool for the next proration period so that each gas
				  proration unit has a reasonable opportunity to produce its fair share of the
				  gas production from the pool and so that correlative rights are
				  protected.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 21 - GAS PRORATION AND ALLOCATION › Section 19.15.21.11 - GAS PRORATION UNITS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
Before issuing a proration schedule for an allocated gas
				  pool, the division after notice and hearing shall fix the pool's gas proration
				  unit.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 21 - GAS PRORATION AND ALLOCATION › Section 19.15.21.12 - GAS PRORATION RULES

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
				Well acreage and location requirements.
(1)
				Standard gas proration unit size and well spacing.
(a) Unless otherwise provided for in
				applicable special pool orders, operators shall drill gas wells in prorated gas
				pools according to the well spacing and acreage requirements contained in
				19.15.21 NMAC provided that when an operator drills a well in a pool with 640
				acre spacing, a government section shall comprise the proration unit.
(b) A GPU an operator drills according to
				Subparagraph (a) of Paragraph (1) of Subsection A of 19.15.21.12 NMAC that
				contains acreage within the tolerances below is a standard GPU for calculating
				allowables:
Standard Proration Unit
Acreage Tolerance
160 acres
158-162 acres
320 acres
316-324 acres
640 acres
632-648 acres
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 22 - HARDSHIP GAS WELLS › Section 19.15.22.2 - SCOPE

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
19.15.22 NMAC applies to persons engaged in oil and gas
				  development and production within New Mexico.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 22 - HARDSHIP GAS WELLS › Section 19.15.22.3 - STATUTORY AUTHORITY

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19.15.22 NMAC is adopted pursuant to NMSA 1978, Section
				  70-2-6,
				  Section
				  70-2-11
				  and Section
				  70-2-12.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 22 - HARDSHIP GAS WELLS › Section 19.15.22.5 - EFFECTIVE DATE

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
December 1, 2008, unless a later date is cited at the end of
				  a section.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 22 - HARDSHIP GAS WELLS › Section 19.15.22.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
[RESERVED]
[See
				  19.15.2.7
				  NMAC for definitions]
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 22 - HARDSHIP GAS WELLS › Section 19.15.22.8 - HARDSHIP GAS WELL

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A. The
				division shall not classify a well as a hardship gas well except after notice
				and hearing or upon the division's appropriate administrative action.
B. Wells the division approves as hardship
				gas wells under 19.15.22.9 NMAC and 19.15.22.10 NMAC have priority access over
				other gas wells to the current available gas market to the extent that they
				might otherwise be restricted below the approved minimum flow rate.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 22 - HARDSHIP GAS WELLS › Section 19.15.22.9 - APPLICATION FOR HARDSHIP GAS WELL CLASSIFICATION

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A. An operator shall apply for hardship gas
				well classification in the form the division prescribes and shall include the
				following:
(1) a narrative description of the
				problems that lead the applicant to believe that underground waste will occur
				if the well is shut-in or curtailed below its ability to produce;
(2) documentation that the applicant has made
				all reasonable and economic attempts to eliminate or correct the problem or an
				explanation and justification as to why the applicant did not make such
				attempts;
(3) a well bore
				sketch;
(4) historical data such as
				permanent loss of productivity after shut-in, frequency and actual costs of
				swabbing after shut-in or curtailment including length of swab time required,
				actual cost figures showing the inability to continue operations without
				special relief or other data that would show that shut-in or curtailment would
				cause underground waste;
(5) if
				failure to obtain a hardship gas well classification would result in the well's
				premature abandonment, a calculation of the reserves that would be lost by the
				failure;
(6) the minimum
				sustainable producing rate as determined by a minimum flow or log-off test or
				documentation of well production history;
(7) a plat or map showing the proration unit
				dedicated to the well and the offsetting acreage's ownership;
(8) the name of the authorized transporter
				(and purchaser if different) of gas; and
(9) other data the applicant considers
				relevant.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 22 - HARDSHIP GAS WELLS › Section 19.15.22.10 - PROCESSING OF APPLICATIONS FOR HARDSHIP GAS WELLS

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A. The director may administratively approve
				an application for hardship gas well classification or the director may set the
				matter for notice and hearing.
B.
				The division shall list applications that the director is to approve
				administratively in the dockets of division or commission hearings that are
				issued from time to time.
(1) If no affected
				party files a written objection to the proposed administrative action within 20
				days following the date of the hearing for which the docket is issued, the
				director may approve the application. If an affected party files an objection
				before or within the 20 day period, the division shall set the application for
				hearing unless the applicant withdraws the application.
(2) The director, on the director's own or
				upon an affected party's request, may require a minimum flow (log-off) test on
				the well for which the hardship classification is sought. The applicant shall
				give notice to the division, the gas transporter and purchaser and the
				requesting affected party of a minimum flow test conducted following the
				request, in order that the test may, at the option of the division or the
				parties, be witnessed. The applicant shall give notice of a minimum flow test
				conducted prior to submitting a hardship gas well application to the
				appropriate division district office, the gas transporter and purchaser and
				offset operators in order that the test may, at the option of the parties, be
				witnessed.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 22 - HARDSHIP GAS WELLS › Section 19.15.22.11 - EMERGENCY HARDSHIP GAS WELL CLASSIFICATION

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. The district supervisor of the appropriate
				division district office may grant emergency approval of a hardship gas well
				classification upon receipt of a copy of the application and attachments and a
				request by the applicant.
B. The
				district supervisor shall approve the emergency classification in writing and
				send a copy to the director, the applicant and the purchaser. The district
				supervisor may only give emergency approval for 90 days and on a one time only
				basis.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 22 - HARDSHIP GAS WELLS › Section 19.15.22.12 - LIMITS ON HARDSHIP GAS WELL CLASSIFICATION

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A. No hardship gas well classification shall
				be retained for a period in excess of one year unless the applicant annually
				requests an extension of the classification and certifies that the well's
				condition has not substantially changed.
B. The division on its own motion may require
				that the applicant show cause why the division should not rescind approval of
				the hardship gas well classification in cases of suspected abuse, changed
				market conditions or other reason.
C. A well the division has classified as a
				hardship gas well located in a prorated gas pool shall accumulate over or under
				production. The division shall not shut in a well classified as a hardship gas
				well for reason of over production.
D. Affected parties may petition the division
				for hearing for the purpose of offsetting a ratable take advantage that the
				operator of a hardship gas well might gain.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 23 - OFF LEASE TRANSPORT OF CRUDE OIL OR CONTAMINANTS › Section 19.15.23.1 - ISSUING AGENCY

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, Oil
				  Conservation Division.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 23 - OFF LEASE TRANSPORT OF CRUDE OIL OR CONTAMINANTS › Section 19.15.23.2 - SCOPE

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
19.15.23 NMAC applies to persons engaged in the off-lease
				  transport of oil or contaminants.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 23 - OFF LEASE TRANSPORT OF CRUDE OIL OR CONTAMINANTS › Section 19.15.23.3 - STATUTORY AUTHORITY

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
19.15.23 NMAC is adopted pursuant to the Oil and Gas Act,
				  NMSA 1978, Section
				  70-2-6,
				  Section
				  70-2-11
				  and Section
				  70-2-12,
				  which authorizes the division to regulate the transport of oil or gas or their
				  products through the use of certificates of clearance or tenders.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 23 - OFF LEASE TRANSPORT OF CRUDE OIL OR CONTAMINANTS › Section 19.15.23.5 - EFFECTIVE DATE

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
December 1, 2008, unless a later date is cited at the end of
				  a section.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 23 - OFF LEASE TRANSPORT OF CRUDE OIL OR CONTAMINANTS › Section 19.15.23.6 - OBJECTIVE

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
To document the transport of oil or lease condensate or
				  liquids that may contain oil, lease condensate, sediment oil or miscellaneous
				  hydrocarbons to verify the location from where they were
				  removed.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 23 - OFF LEASE TRANSPORT OF CRUDE OIL OR CONTAMINANTS › Section 19.15.23.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
[RESERVED]
[See
				  19.15.2.7
				  NMAC for definitions.]
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 23 - OFF LEASE TRANSPORT OF CRUDE OIL OR CONTAMINANTS › Section 19.15.23.8 - DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED

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A.
				Off-lease transportation of oil or lease condensate by motor vehicle shall be
				pursuant to an approved form C-104 and shall be accompanied by a run ticket or
				equivalent document. The documentation shall identify the transporter's name
				and address, the operator's name, the name of the lease or facility from which
				the oil was taken, the date of removal, the API gravity of the oil, the
				observed percentage of BS&W, the volume of oil or opening and closing tank
				gauges or meter readings and the driver's signature. The document shall provide
				space for recording of the lease number and for the signature of the operator
				or the operator's representative.
B. Off-lease transportation of oil or lease
				condensate by motor vehicle shall be accompanied by documentation sufficient to
				verify the location of the tanks or facility from which the transporter removed
				the liquid. The location may be shown on the run ticket or equivalent document
				or may be carried separately.
C.
				Off-lease transportation of liquids that may contain oil, lease condensate,
				sediment oil or miscellaneous hydrocarbons shall be accompanied by a run
				ticket, work order or equivalent document,
i.e
., form C-117-A.
				The documentation shall identify the transporter's name and address, the
				operator's name, the name of the lease or facility from which the liquid was
				removed, the nature of the liquid removed including the observed percentage of
				liquid hydrocarbons, the volume or estimated volume of liquids and the
				destination.
D. Off-lease
				transportation of liquids that may contain oil, lease condensate, sediment oil
				or miscellaneous hydrocarbons shall be accompanied by documentation sufficient
				to verify the location of the tanks or facility from which the transporter
				removed the liquid. The location may be shown on the run ticket or equivalent
				document or may be carried separately.
E. The transporter shall carry the
				documentation required under Subsections A and B of 19.15.23.8 NMAC in the
				vehicle during transportation and produce the documentation for examination and
				inspection by a division employee, a state police officer or other law
				enforcement officer upon identification and request.
F. Except where the owner and the transporter
				are the same, one copy of the documentation shall be left at the facility from
				which the oil or other liquids were removed.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 23 - OFF LEASE TRANSPORT OF CRUDE OIL OR CONTAMINANTS › Section 19.15.23.9 - OFF-LEASE TRANSPORTATION OR STORAGE PRIOR TO MEASUREMENT

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A. The division may
				grant exceptions to the requirements of Subsection B of 19.15.12.9 NMAC
				administratively, without hearing, to permit production from one lease to be
				transported prior to measurement to another lease for storage on that lease
				when:
(1) the operator files an application
				for off-lease transportation or storage prior to measurement on form C-107-B
				with the division's Santa Fe office and sends one copy to the appropriate
				division district office;
(2) the
				production is from the same common source of supply;
(3) commingling of production from different
				leases will not result;
(4) there
				will be no intercommunication of the handling, separating, treating or storage
				facilities designated to each lease;
(5) parties owning working interests in the
				production to be transported off lease prior to measurement have been notified
				of the application in accordance with 19.15.4.12 NMAC and have consented in
				writing, or the applicant furnishes proof that the parties were notified by
				registered or certified mail of its intent to transport the production from one
				lease to another lease for storage prior to measurement, and after a period of
				20 days following receipt of the application, no party has filed objection to
				the application with the division; and
(6) if state, federal or tribal lands are
				involved, the operator has notified the state land office or the BLM, as
				applicable.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 24 - ILLEGAL SALE AND RATABLE TAKE › Section 19.15.24.2 - SCOPE

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
19.15.24 NMAC applies to those persons involved in the sale,
				  purchase or transport of oil or gas.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 24 - ILLEGAL SALE AND RATABLE TAKE › Section 19.15.24.3 - STATUTORY AUTHORITY

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19.15.24 NMAC is adopted pursuant to the Oil and Gas Act,
				  NMSA 1978, Section
				  70-2-6,
				  Section
				  70-2-11,
				  Section
				  70-2-19
				  and Section
				  70-2-22,
				  which authorizes the division to regulate the sale, purchase or acquisition, or
				  the transportation, refining, processing or handling of oil or gas produced in
				  excess of the amount allowed by statute, rule or commission or division
				  order.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 24 - ILLEGAL SALE AND RATABLE TAKE › Section 19.15.24.5 - EFFECTIVE DATE

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
December 1, 2008, unless a later date is cited at the end of
				  a section.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 24 - ILLEGAL SALE AND RATABLE TAKE › Section 19.15.24.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
[RESERVED]
[See
				  19.15.2.7
				  NMAC for definitions.]
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 24 - ILLEGAL SALE AND RATABLE TAKE › Section 19.15.24.8 - GAS SALES BY LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE OWNERS IN A WELL

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When there are separate owners in a well and where an owner's
				  gas is not being sold with the well's current production, the owner may, if
				  necessary to protect the owner's correlative rights, petition the division for
				  a hearing seeking appropriate relief.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 24 - ILLEGAL SALE AND RATABLE TAKE › Section 19.15.24.9 - ILLEGAL SALE PROHIBITED

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The sale, purchase or acquisition or the transporting,
				  refining, processing or handling in any other way of oil or of gas in whole or
				  in part (or a gas product so produced) produced in excess of the amount a
				  statute or a division rule or order allows is prohibited.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 24 - ILLEGAL SALE AND RATABLE TAKE › Section 19.15.24.10 - RATABLE TAKE; COMMON PURCHASER OF OIL

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A. A person engaged in the purchase of oil to
				be transported through pipelines is a common purchaser of oil, and shall
				without discrimination in favor of one producer as against another in the same
				field, purchase oil tendered to it that has been lawfully produced in the
				vicinity of, or that may be reasonably reached by pipelines through which it is
				transporting oil or the pipelines' gathering branches or that may be delivered
				to the pipeline or the pipelines' gathering branches by truck or otherwise and
				shall fully perform all a common purchaser's duties.
B. If a common purchaser does not need all
				the oil lawfully produced within a field, or if it is unable to purchase all
				the oil, then it shall purchase from each producer in a field ratably, taking
				and purchasing the same quantity of oil from each well to the extent that each
				well is capable of producing its ratable portions. However, nothing in
				Subsection B of 19.15.24.10 NMAC requires more than one pipeline connection for
				each producing well.
C. In the
				event a common purchaser of oil is also a producer or is affiliated with a
				producer, directly or indirectly, the common purchaser shall not discriminate
				in favor of its own production or in favor of the production of an affiliated
				producer as against that of others and the common purchaser shall treat the oil
				produced by the common purchaser or the common purchaser's affiliate as that
				produced by another producer for the purposes of ratable taking.
D. It shall be unlawful for a common
				purchaser to unjustly or unreasonably discriminate as to the relative
				quantities of oil it purchases in various fields of the state; the division to
				determine the justice or reasonableness, shall consider the production and age
				of wells in the respective fields and all other factors. It is the intent of
				19.15.24.10 NMAC that all fields be allowed to produce and market a just and
				equitable share of the oil produced and marketed in the state, insofar as the
				oil can be produced and marketed economically and without waste.
E. In order to preclude premature
				abandonment, the common purchaser within its purchasing area shall make 100
				percent purchases from units of settled production producing 10 barrels or less
				daily of crude petroleum in lieu of ratable purchases or takings. However,
				where the common purchaser's takings are curtailed below 10 barrels per unit of
				crude petroleum daily, then the common purchaser shall purchase equally from
				all units within its purchasing area, regardless of their producing ability
				insofar as they are capable of producing.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 24 - ILLEGAL SALE AND RATABLE TAKE › Section 19.15.24.11 - PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBONS FROM GAS WELLS

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A. Liquid hydrocarbons produced incidental to
				the authorized production of gas from a well the division has classified as a
				gas well are legal production.
B.
				For purposes of 19.15.24.11 NMAC the division shall consider gas produced from
				a gas well to be authorized production with the following exceptions:
(1) when the operator produces the well
				without an approved form C-104, designating the gas transporter and the oil or
				condensate transporter for the well; or
(2) when the division has directed the
				operator to shut-in the well.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 24 - ILLEGAL SALE AND RATABLE TAKE › Section 19.15.24.12 - RATABLE TAKE OF GAS

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A. A
				person engaged in purchasing from one or more producers, gas produced from gas
				wells or casinghead gas produced from oil wells shall be a common purchaser of
				gas within each common supply source from which it purchases, and shall
				purchase gas lawfully produced from gas wells or casinghead gas produced from
				oil wells with which its gas transportation facilities are connected in the
				pool and other gas lawfully produced within the pool and tendered to a point on
				its gas transportation facilities.
B. The common purchaser shall make purchases
				without unreasonable discrimination in favor of one producer against another in
				the price paid, the quantities purchased, the bases of measurement or the gas
				transportation facilities afforded for gas of like quantity, quality and
				pressure available from the wells.
C. In the event the common purchaser is also
				a producer, the common purchaser shall not discriminate in favor of the common
				purchaser on production from gas wells or casinghead gas produced from oil
				wells in which the common purchaser has an interest, direct or indirect, as
				against other production from gas wells or casinghead gas produced from oil
				wells in the same pool. For the purposes of 19.15.24.12 NMAC, reasonable
				differences in prices paid or facilities afforded, or both, do not constitute
				unreasonable discrimination if the differences bear a fair relationship to
				differences in quality, quantity or pressure of the gas available or to the
				relative lengths of time during which the gas will be available to the
				purchaser. The provisions of Subsection C of 19.15.24.12 NMAC shall not apply
				to:
(1) a well or pool used for storage and
				withdrawal from storage of gas originally produced not in violation of division
				rules or orders;
(2) a person
				purchasing gas principally for use in the recovery or production of oil or gas;
				or
(3) a well that the division
				designates a hardship well.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 25 - PLUGGING AND ABANDONMENT OF WELLS › Section 19.15.25.2 - SCOPE

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19.15.25 NMAC applies to persons that operate oil or gas
				  wells within New Mexico.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 25 - PLUGGING AND ABANDONMENT OF WELLS › Section 19.15.25.3 - STATUTORY AUTHORITY

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
19.15.25 NMAC is adopted pursuant to the Oil and Gas Act,
				  NMSA 1978, Section
				  70-2-12,
				  which authorizes the division to require dry or abandoned wells to be plugged
				  so as to confine oil, gas or water in the strata in which they are found and to
				  prevent them from escaping into other strata.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 25 - PLUGGING AND ABANDONMENT OF WELLS › Section 19.15.25.5 - EFFECTIVE DATE

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
December 1, 2008, unless a later date is cited at the end of
				  a section.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 25 - PLUGGING AND ABANDONMENT OF WELLS › Section 19.15.25.6 - OBJECTIVE

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To establish requirements for properly abandoning and
				  plugging wells drilled for oil or gas or service wells including seismic, core,
				  exploration or injection wells or placing the wells in temporary abandonment in
				  order to protect public health, fresh water and the
				  environment.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 25 - PLUGGING AND ABANDONMENT OF WELLS › Section 19.15.25.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
[RESERVED]
[See
				  19.15.2.7
				  NMAC for definitions]
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 25 - PLUGGING AND ABANDONMENT OF WELLS › Section 19.15.25.8 - WELLS TO BE PROPERLY ABANDONED

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A.
				The operator of wells drilled for oil or gas or services wells including
				seismic, core, exploration or injection wells, whether cased or uncased, shall
				plug the wells as Subsection B of 19.15.25.8 NMAC requires.
B. The operator shall either properly plug
				and abandon a well or place the well in approved temporary abandonment in
				accordance with 19.15.25 NMAC within 90 days after:
(1) a 60 day period following suspension of
				drilling operations;
(2) a
				determination that a well is no longer usable for beneficial purposes;
				or
(3) a period of one year in
				which a well has been continuously inactive.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 25 - PLUGGING AND ABANDONMENT OF WELLS › Section 19.15.25.9 - NOTICE OF PLUGGING

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A. The
				operator shall file notice of intention to plug with the division on form C-103
				prior to commencing plugging operations. The notice shall provide all the
				information 19.15.7.14 NMAC requires including operator and well identification
				and proposed procedures for plugging the well.
B. In addition, the operator shall provide a
				well bore diagram showing the proposed plugging procedure.
C. The operator shall notify the division 24
				hours prior to commencing plugging operations. In the case of a newly drilled
				dry hole, the operator may obtain verbal approval from the appropriate district
				supervisor or the district supervisor's representative of the plugging method
				and time operations are to begin. The operator shall file written notice in
				accordance with 19.15.25.11 NMAC with the division within 10 days after the
				district supervisor has given verbal approval.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 25 - PLUGGING AND ABANDONMENT OF WELLS › Section 19.15.25.10 - PLUGGING

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A. Before an
				operator abandons a well, the operator shall plug the well in a manner that
				permanently confines all oil, gas and water in the separate strata in which
				they are originally found. The operator may accomplish this by using mud-laden
				fluid, cement and plugs singly or in combination as approved by the division on
				the notice of intention to plug.
B.
				The operator shall mark the exact location of plugged and abandoned wells with
				a steel marker not less than four inches in diameter set in cement and
				extending at least four feet above mean ground level. The operator name, lease
				name and well number and location, including unit letter, section, township and
				range, shall be welded, stamped or otherwise permanently engraved into the
				marker's metal. A person shall not build permanent structures preventing access
				to the wellhead over a plugged and abandoned well without the division's
				written approval. A person shall not remove a plugged and abandonment marker
				without the division's written approval.
C. The operator may use below-ground plugged
				and abandonment markers only with the division's written approval when an
				above-ground marker would interfere with agricultural endeavors. The
				below-ground marker shall have a steel plate welded onto the abandoned well's
				surface or conductor pipe and shall be at least three feet below the ground
				surface and of sufficient size so that all the information 19.15.16.8 NMAC
				requires can be stenciled into the steel or welded onto the steel plate's
				surface. The division may require a re-survey of the well location.
D. As soon as practical, but no later than
				one year after the completion of plugging operations, the operator shall:
(1) level the location;
(2) remove deadmen and other junk;
				and
(3) take other measures
				necessary or required by the division to restore the location to a safe and
				clean condition.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 25 - PLUGGING AND ABANDONMENT OF WELLS › Section 19.15.25.11 - REPORTS FOR PLUGGING AND ABANDOMENT

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A. The operator shall file form C-105 as
				provided in 19.15.7.16 NMAC.
B.
				Within 30 days after completing required restoration work, the operator shall
				file with the division a record of the work done on form C-103 as provided in
				19.15.7.14 NMAC.
C. The division
				shall not approve the record of plugging or release a bond until the operator
				has filed necessary reports and the division has inspected and approved the
				location.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 25 - PLUGGING AND ABANDONMENT OF WELLS › Section 19.15.25.12 - APPROVED TEMPORARY ABANDONMENT

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The division may place a well in approved temporary
				  abandonment for a period of up to five years. Prior to the expiration of an
				  approved temporary abandonment the operator shall return the well to beneficial
				  use under a plan the division approves, permanently plug and abandon the well
				  and restore and remediate the location or apply for a new approval to
				  temporarily abandon the well. An operator is limited to placing the following
				  numbers of wells in approved temporary abandonment:
A. one well, if the operator operates between
				one and five wells; or
B. one-third
				of all wells (rounded to the nearest whole number), if the operator operates
				more than five wells.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 25 - PLUGGING AND ABANDONMENT OF WELLS › Section 19.15.25.13 - REQUEST FOR APPROVAL AND PERMIT FOR APPROVED TEMPORARY ABANDONMENT

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A. An operator
				seeking approval for approved temporary abandonment shall submit on form C-103
				a notice of intent to seek approved temporary abandonment for the well
				describing the proposed temporary abandonment procedure the operator will use.
				The operator shall not commence work until the division has approved the
				request. The operator shall give 24 hours' notice to the appropriate division
				district office before beginning work.
B. The division shall not approve a permit
				for approved temporary abandonment until the operator furnishes evidence
				demonstrating that the well's casing and cementing are mechanically and
				physically sound and in such condition as to prevent:
(1) damage to the producing zone;
(2) migration of hydrocarbons or
				water;
(3) the contamination of
				fresh water or other natural resources; and
(4) the leakage of a substance at the
				surface.
New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS › Part 25 - PLUGGING AND ABANDONMENT OF WELLS › Section 19.15.25.14 - DEMONSTRATING MECHANICAL INTEGRITY

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A. An operator may use the following methods
				of demonstrating internal casing integrity for wells to be placed in approved
				temporary abandonment:
(1) the operator may
				set a cast iron bridge plug within 100 feet of uppermost perforations or
				production casing shoe, load the casing with inert fluid and pressure test to
				500 psi surface pressure with a pressure drop of not more than 10 percent over
				a 30 minute period;
(2) the
				operator may run a retrievable bridge plug or packer to within 100 feet of
				uppermost perforations or production casing shoe, and test the well to 500 psi
				surface pressure for 30 minutes with a pressure drop of not greater than 10
				percent over a 30 minute period; or
(3) the operator may demonstrate that the
				well has been completed for less than five years and has not been connected to
				a pipeline.