Oil & Natural Gas
New Mexico has been a major producer of oil and natural gas since
New Mexico crude oil output is typically just over 3 percent of the
hydrocarbons were first discovered in the state during the early
annual U.S. total. The Permian Basin is one of the most productive
1920’s. Today, New Mexico is a leading producer of crude oil and
areas and contains three of the 100 largest oil fields in the country.
natural gas in the United States. Major oil and gas deposits are located
in the Permian Basin in the southeast part of the state and in the San
Juan Basin in the northwest. The energy industry plays a critical role in
New Mexico’s economy and is an economic driver, both when prices
are up and when prices are down.
More than 11,000 citizens of the state are directly employed by the oil
and gas industry, making it a lynch pin of the state’s economy and is
essential for its continued fiscal health.
New Mexico has three oil refineries in Artesia, Bloomfield and Gallup,
and uses several petroleum product pipelines to connect the refineries
to state and area markets. Giant Industries purchases almost all of the
San Juan Basin’s oil, refining it into gasoline and diesel at facilities
in Bloomfield and Thoreau. Forty-two percent of oil production is on
federal land and 38 percent is on state land.
Natural gas production in New Mexico accounts for close to onetenth of the total produced in the United States. In 2011, the state’s
New Mexico is the second largest natural gas producer, producing
marketed production of natural gas accounted for 5.3 percent of U.S.
ten percent of the nation’s natural gas supply, and ranks second in
marketed natural gas production, despite a decrease of 16 percent
reserves in the lower 48 states. The state is also the sixth largest
between 2007 and 2011.
producer of crude oil in the continental U.S., excluding Federal
offshore areas, ranking fourth in crude oil reserves.
The San Juan Basin gas area is the largest field of proven natural gas
reserves in the U.S. and is the leading coalbed-methane-producing
A 2007 study of undiscovered petroleum resources in the Permian
region. New Mexico’s production of coalbed methane, about one-third
Basin was conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey, which estimated
of the state’s total, rivals production in Colorado and is responsible
that there is a mean of 41 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered natural
for around three-tenths of all coalbed methane produced in the U.S.
gas and a mean of 1.3 billion barrels of undiscovered oil.
While coal¬bed methane production from the San Juan Basin has
In 2010, New Mexico produced 65.2 million barrels of oil, an increase
of more than four million barrels over 2009’s volume, and 1.3 billion
declined since the late 1990s, new production is under development
in the Raton Basin in the northeastern part of the state.
cubic feet of natural gas. These valuable commodities are obtained
Although more than two-thirds of New Mexico households use natural
from more than 2,000 oil and gas fields. As of November 2011,
gas as their primary source for home heating, less than one-tenth of
there were 26,624 oil wells, 29,713 gas wells, 683 C02 wells, 3,783
New Mexico’s natural gas is used in the state. The majority of New
enhanced recovery injection wells and 801 salt water disposal wells.
Mexico’s supply is delivered to the West Coast and to market centers
in West Texas that supply the Midwest. New Mexico’s Blanco Hub,
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engineering is a broad-based discipline primarily concerned with the
focus on the practical application of the basic and physical sciences
of mathematics, geology, physics, and chemistry and all of the
engineering sciences to the discovery, development, and production,
and transportation of petroleum.
Oil & Gas Companies in New Mexico
ABC Rental Tool Company
Chevron Production
Imi-Eesi
Process Equipment & Service Co.
Ace Inspection Company
Colborn Company Inc.
John H. Hendrix Corporation
Pure Resources Inc.
Allen’s Casing Crews
Conoco Phillips
Key Energy Service
Range Operating New Mexico Inc.
Apache Corporation
Conoco Phillips Pipe Line Co.
Legacy Reserves Operating LP
Read & Stevens
Aries Services Inc.
Cope Enterprises
Llano Field Service Inc.
Rice Operating Company
Aspen Oil Inc.
D & D Pipeline Construction
LSI Lubrication Service Inc.
Sanco Roustabout
Automation X Corp.
Danglade F J
Lucky Services
Schlumberger
Aztec Rentals-Hobbs LLC
Davis Fluid Calipers
Lynx Petroleum Inc.
Shell Pipeline Corp.
Aztec Well Servicing
Dawn Trucking
McCasland Management Inc.
Snow Oil & Gas Inc.
B & H Maintenance & Construction
Dean’s Pumping Inc.
McVay Drilling Company
State Oil Company Inc.
B L Resources
Double M Energy LLC
Mesa Well Services
Stephens & Johnson Operating
Bandera Petroleum Inc.
Doug’s Pumping Service Double D
Metering & Testing Service Inc.
Synergy Operating
Banta Oilfield Services
Dugan Production Corp.
ME-TEX Oil & Gas Inc.
Teaco Drilling
Barton Oil Producers
El Paso Natural Gas
Mewbourne Oil Company
Teppco Crude Pipeline
Basic Energy Service
ENGR Resources
Mid-America Pipeline Co.
TEXACO
BC Services
Enterprise Products Operating LP
MNA Enterprises LTD Company
Texland Petroleum Hobbs LLC
Bearcat Drilling
Envirotech
Murchison Drilling Schools
Trinity Pipeline LP
BIO Tech Inc.
Eunice Wells Servicing Inc.
Nabors Well Service Company
Triple S Trucking
Baker Hughes
Exterran
Natural Gas Service
Tyler Well Service
Black Hills Exploration & Production
Featherstone Development Corp.
Navajo Refining Company
United Fuel & Energy
BP America Production Company
Flint Energy Service Inc.
Nelson Ron
Vanguard Natural Resources LLC
Byrom Oil Company
Forest Oil Corporation
Odessa Seperator Industry
Veteto Oil Company
C & J Equipment Manufacturing
Four-Four Inc.
OXY USA Inc.
Warren Petroleum Corporation VADA
Canyon State Oil Company
Giant Pipeline Co.
Patterson-UTI Drilling Company
Warren Resources Inc.
Cardinal Surveys Company
Great Western Drilling Company
Pemco of New Mexico
Weatherford Completion Systems
Centurion Pipeline LP
Guardian Wellhead Protection
Permian Drilling Corporation
Westbrook Oil Corporation
CHB Pump
Haameyer Electric Inc.
Phillips Oil Company
Western Refining
Chesapeake
Halliburton
Phoenix Hydrocarbon Corporation
Whitaker Oil Tools
Chevron Corporation
Harvard Petroleum Company
Pierce Production Company
Yarbrough Oil Company
Chevron Information Technology
Harvey Yates Company
Plains Oil/Pipeline Company
Yates Energy Corporation
Chevron Pipe Line Company
HollyFrontier Corporation
Primero Operating Inc.
1720 Louisiana Blvd NE, Suite 312
Albuquerque, NM 87110
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