New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 70 - Oil and Gas
Article 2 - Oil Conservation Commission; Division;

Section 70-2-1 - Short title. - Chapter 70, Article 2 NMSA 1978 may be cited as...

Section 70-2-2 - [Waste prohibited.] - The production or handling of crude petroleum oil or natural...

Section 70-2-3 - Waste; definitions. - As used in this act the term "waste," in addition...

Section 70-2-4 - Oil conservation commission; members; term; officers; quorum; power to administer oaths. - There is created an "oil conservation commission", hereinafter in the...

Section 70-2-5 - Oil conservation division; director; state petroleum engineer. - A. The director of the oil conservation division of the...

Section 70-2-6 - Commission's and division's powers and duties. - A. The division shall have, and is hereby given, jurisdiction...

Section 70-2-7 - Rules of procedure in hearings; manner of giving notice; record of rules, regulations and orders. - The oil conservation division of the energy, minerals and natural...

Section 70-2-8 - Subpoena power; immunity of natural persons required to testify. - The commission, or any member thereof, or the director of...

Section 70-2-9 - Failure or refusal to comply with subpoena; refusal to testify; body attachment; contempt. - In case of failure or refusal on the part of...

Section 70-2-10 - Perjury; punishment. - If any person of whom an oath shall be required...

Section 70-2-11 - Power of commission and division to prevent waste and protect correlative rights. - A. The division is hereby empowered, and it is its...

Section 70-2-12 - Enumeration of powers. - A. The oil conservation division of the energy, minerals and...

Section 70-2-12.1 - Disposition of produced water; no permit required. - No permit shall be required from the state engineer for...

Section 70-2-12.2 - Adoption of rules; appeals. - A. No rule shall be adopted pursuant to the Oil...

Section 70-2-13 - Additional powers of commission or division; hearings before examiner; hearings de novo. - In addition to the powers and authority, either express or...

Section 70-2-14 - Requirement for financial assurance. - A. Each person, firm, corporation or association who operates any...

Section 70-2-15 - Allocation of allowable production among fields when division limits total amount of production. - Whenever, to prevent waste, the division limits the total amount...

Section 70-2-16 - Allocation of allowable production in field or pool. - A. Whenever, to prevent waste, the total allowable production of...

Section 70-2-17 - Equitable allocation of allowable production; pooling; spacing. - A. The rules, regulations or orders of the division shall,...

Section 70-2-18 - Spacing or proration unit with divided mineral ownership. - A. Whenever the operator of any oil or gas well...

Section 70-2-19 - Common purchasers; discrimination in purchasing prohibited. - A. Every person now engaged or hereafter engaging in the...

Section 70-2-20 - Repealed. - Repeals. — Laws 1981, ch. 362, § 3, repeals 70-2-20...

Section 70-2-21 - Purchase, sale or handling of excess oil, natural gas or products prohibited. - A. The sale or purchase or acquisition, or the transportation,...

Section 70-2-22 - Rules and regulations to effectuate prohibitions against purchase or handling of excess oil or natural gas; penalties. - A. The division is specifically authorized and directed to make...

Section 70-2-23 - Hearings on rules, regulations and orders; notice; emergency rules. - Except as provided for herein, before any rule, regulation or...

Section 70-2-24 - Reports of governmental departments or agencies as to market demand to be deemed prima facie correct. - The reports, estimates, findings of fact or similar documents or...

Section 70-2-25 - Rehearings; appeals. - A. Within twenty days after entry of an order or...

Section 70-2-26 - Review of oil conservation commission decision; appeals. - The secretary of energy, minerals and natural resources may hold...

Section 70-2-27 - Temporary restraining order or injuction [injunction]; grounds; hearing; bond. - A. No temporary restraining order or injunction of any kind...

Section 70-2-28 - Actions for violations. - Whenever it shall appear that any person is violating, or...

Section 70-2-29 - Actions for damages; institution of actions for injunctions by private parties. - Nothing in this act contained or authorized, and no suit...

Section 70-2-30 - [Violation of court order grounds for appointment of receiver.] - The violation by any person of an order of the...

Section 70-2-31 - Violations of the Oil and Gas Act; penalties. - A. Whenever the division determines that a person violated or...

Section 70-2-31.1 - Reporting requirement. - No later than October 1 of each year, the division...

Section 70-2-32 - Seizure and sale of illegal oil or gas or products; procedure. - A. Apart from, and in addition to, any other remedy...

Section 70-2-33 - Definitions. - As used in the Oil and Gas Act: A. "person"...

Section 70-2-34 - Regulation, conservation and prevention of waste of carbon dioxide, helium and other non-hydrocarbon gases. - A. The oil conservation division shall adopt and administer rules...

Section 70-2-35 - Legal representation before the federal energy regulatory commission. - There may be a special assistant attorney general employed by...

Section 70-2-36 - Removing or altering marks of identification; penalty. - A. No person shall remove, alter or attempt to remove...

Section 70-2-36.1 - Repealed. - Repeals. — Laws 1991, ch. 9, § 45A repeals 70-2-36.1...

Section 70-2-37 - Oil and gas reclamation fund created; disposition of fund. - There is created the "oil and gas reclamation fund". In...

Section 70-2-38 - Oil and gas reclamation fund administered; plugging wells on federal land; right of indemnification; annual report; contractors selling equipment for salvage. - A. The oil and gas reclamation fund shall be administered...

Section 70-2-39 - Fees; appropriation. - A. The following fees are required to be paid to...