NMOCD Imaging: Find Any New Mexico Oil & Gas Document
OCD Imaging holds over 4 million scanned New Mexico oil and gas documents in seven searches. What each accepts, and where to find the identifiers it asks for.
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New Mexico Oil and Gas
In New Mexico, oil and gas wells and drilling permits are regulated by the Oil Conservation Division, while air emissions fall to the New Mexico Environment Department. The two keep separate systems, so the answer to a question about a well is often split between them.
These posts explain how to search the Oil Conservation Division for wells and permits, how an application for permit to drill moves through the system, and what the state air rules, including the ozone-season provisions, ask of operators in the Permian and San Juan basins.
The New Mexico posts also cover the state's abandoned and orphaned wells and how to map them from the public records. Each post links to the agency tool it describes, so any record can be checked at its source.
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Permian Basin Oil Fields: Every Well, County and Operator
The Permian Basin holds 389,187 wells on record across West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. Counts, counties, operators, and 2024 production, on one map.
New Mexico Ozone Season O&G Rules: NMED Requirements
NMED 20.2.82 NMAC requires heightened LDAR surveys and equipment controls for New Mexico oil and gas facilities during the May through October ozone season.
Class II Injection Wells and the Other UIC Classes, Explained
About 180,000 Class II oil and gas injection wells operate in the US, most for enhanced recovery, not disposal. The six UIC classes and where records live.
NMOCD Permitting: How New Mexico Drilling Permits (APDs) Work
How NMOCD drilling permits work: the Form C-101 review, APD expiry dates, and why New Mexico approves over 3,000 permits a year but spuds far fewer wells.
Abandoned Gas Wells: What They Are and Where to Find Them
Abandoned and orphaned gas wells are a methane and cleanup-liability concern. Learn what they are and how Atlas maps them, with New Mexico as the live example.
NMOCD Well Search: Find Any New Mexico Well on One Map
Search about 141,000 New Mexico wells by operator, county or well name, then open each one with its production, spills and wellhead gas composition.