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

Universal Citation: 19 NM Admin Code 19.15.20.11

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 24, December 23, 2024

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.

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