N.M. Admin. Code § 19.15.26.12

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 23, December 10, 2024

Section 19.15.26.12 - COMMENCEMENT, DISCONTINUANCE AND ABANDONMENT OF INJECTION OPERATIONS

A. The following provisions apply to injection projects, storage projects, produced water disposal wells and special purpose injection wells.

B.Notice of commencement and discontinuance.

(1) Immediately upon the commencement of injection operations in a well, the operator shall notify the division of the date the operations began.

(2) Within 30 days after permanent cessation of gas or liquefied petroleum gas storage operations or within 30 days after discontinuance of injection operations into any other well, the operator shall notify the division of the date of the discontinuance and the reasons for the discontinuance.

(3) Before temporarily abandoning or plugging an injection well, the operator shall obtain approval from the appropriate division district office in the same manner as when temporarily abandoning or plugging oil and gas wells or dry holes.

C.Abandonment of injection operations.

(1) Whenever there is a continuous one-year period of non-injection into all wells in an injection or storage project or into a produced water disposal well or special purpose injection well, the division shall consider the project or well abandoned, and the authority for injection shall automatically terminate ipso facto.

(2) For good cause shown, the director may grant an administrative extension or extensions of injection authority as an exception to Paragraph (1) of Subsection C of 19.15.26.12 NMAC, provided that any such extension may be granted only prior to the end of one year or continuous non-injection, or during the term of a previously granted extension.

N.M. Admin. Code § 19.15.26.12

19.15.26.12 NMAC - Rp, 19.15.9.705 NMAC, 12/1/08, Amended by New Mexico Register, Volume XXIX, Issue 24, December 27, 2018, eff. 12/27/2018