New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE
Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS
Part 13 - COMPULSORY POOLING
Section 19.15.13.7 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 24, December 23, 2024
A. "Infill well" means a well in a compulsory pooled proration or spacing unit to be completed in a pool in which an existing well drilled pursuant to the compulsory pooling order has been completed and not plugged and abandoned.
B. "Operator", for the purposes of 19.15.13 NMAC, means the division or commission appointed operator of a compulsory pooled proration or spacing unit, or its successor.
C. "Pooled working interest" means a working interest or unleased mineral interest that is pooled by division or commission order and not by voluntary agreement of the owner of the interest, except for an unleased mineral interest on federal, state or tribal lands.
