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These include La Paz County, Arizona (02-012), Cibola County, New Mexico (30-006), and Los Alamos County, New Mexico (30-028). Kern County, California has a well population that has exceeded the digits available for the "Unique Well Identifier" so 029 is used for the first 99,999 wells, and 030 is used for any additional wells .
When I spoke with the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association, it was a similar conversation, albeit more solutions-focused on state policies legislators could enact to help with the abandoned wells issue.
The head of EMNRD is the cabinet secretary of energy, minerals and natural resources. The cabinet secretary is appointed by the governor of New Mexico, with the approval of the New Mexico Senate, and serves as a member of the Governor's Cabinet. The Cabinet Secretary is assisted by a Deputy Secretary and six division directors.
Records show there were about 1,700 abandoned or orphaned oil and gas wells on state and private land in New Mexico.
In March 2022, New Mexico Environment Department was announced to receive modest bumps to their budgets from the state's general fund. [7] The agency has 550 employees throughout our main offices in Santa Fe and 22 district offices state-wide.
Epstein’s comments came during a ceremony June 14 at the Artesia Country Club marking the 100 th anniversary of the Illinois #3 well, the first well that produced oil in southeast New Mexico in ...
The San Juan Basin contains ample fuel resources, including oil, gas, coal, and uranium. The basin has produced from over 300 oil fields and nearly 40,000 wells, most of which are sourced from Cretaceous-aged rocks. Furthermore, 90% of the wells have been drilled in the state of New Mexico.
Nuclear Watch used what it called the lab's publicly accessible but cumbersome environmental database, Intellus New Mexico, to map 58,100 spots where the lab collected samples between 1992 and ...