NEPA Number: DOI-BLM-NM-0000-2019-0003-OTHER_NEPA
Project Name: June 2019 Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale - New Mexico State Office

Project Information 

  • NEPA Number
    DOI-BLM-NM-0000-2019-0003-OTHER_NEPA
  • Project Name
    June 2019 Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale - New Mexico State Office
  • Project Type
  • NEPA Status
    Completed - Completed
  • Lead Office
    State Office
  • Last Updated


Project Description

What's New

Public Protest Period (4/22/2019 through 5/01/2019)
Click here to view the BLM New Mexico Public Web Map for the June 2019 Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale. To view the parcels specific to this lease sale on the web map site, click on the stack of paper (layers) icon in the top right corner of the page and select the layers that begin with 06/2019.
The Proposed Action is to lease 51 nominated parcels of federal minerals administered by the Bureau of Land Management New Mexico covering 39,623.57 acres. Standard terms and conditions as well as lease stipulations listed in the BLM Carlsbad, Farmington, Oklahoma, and Rio Puerco Resource Management Plans (as amended) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lease Stipulations for Federal Oil and Gas Lease Offerings would apply.

Once sold, the lease purchaser has the exclusive right to use as much of the leased lands as is necessary to explore and drill oil and gas within the lease boundaries, subject to the stipulations attached to the lease (43 CFR 3101.1-2).

Oil and gas leases are issued for a 10-year period and continue for as long thereafter as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities. If a lessee fails to produce oil and gas, does not make annual rental payments, does not comply with the terms and conditions of the lease, or relinquishes the lease, exclusive right to develop the leasehold reverts to the federal government and the lease can be re-offered in another sale. Drilling of wells on a lease is not permitted until the lease owner or operator secures approval of a drilling permit and a surface use plan specified under Onshore Oil and Gas Orders listed in 43 CFR 3162.

A permit to drill would not be authorized until site-specific NEPA analysis is conducted. Site specific mitigation measures and Best Management Practices (BMPs) would be attached as Conditions of Approval (COAs) for each proposed exploration and development activity authorized on a lease.
For more information, contact:

NEPA Lead (Farmington Field Office)
Ryan Joyner
Planning and Environmental Coordinator
6251 North College Boulevard, Suite A 
Farmington, NM  87402-1738
(505) 564-7662
[email protected]

NEPA Lead (Rio Puerco Field Office)
Lucas Vargo
Environmental Protection Specialist
100 Sun Avenue Northeast
Pan American Building, Suite 330
Albuquerque, NM  87107-4935
(575) 289-0068
[email protected]

NEPA Lead (Carlsbad Field Office)
Bob Ballard
Supervisory Natural Resource Specialist
620 East Greene Street,
Carlsbad, NM  88220-6292 
(575) 234-2235 
[email protected]

NEPA Lead (Oklahoma Field Office)
April Crawley
Natural Resource Specialist
201 Stephenson Parkway, Suite 1200
Norman, OK  73072-2037 
(405) 579-7171
[email protected]
 
Lease Sale Lead (New Mexico State Office)
Lauren Leib
Land Law Examiner
P.O. Box 27115
Santa Fe, NM  87502-0115
(505) 954-2234
[email protected]

Lease Sale Supervisor (New Mexico State Office)
JulieAnn Serrano
Supervisory Land Law Examiner
P.O. Box 27115
Santa Fe, NM  87502-0115
(505) 954-2149
[email protected]
 

Project Location

City State/Territory Zip Code County(ies)
Santa Fe New Mexico 87508

Application Information

  • Program
    Fluid Minerals (Oil & Gas, Tar Sands, Oil Shale)
  • Sub-Program
    Oil & Gas


Project Dates

  • Start Date
    1/24/2019


Project Office Information

  • Lead Office
    State Office
  • Offices
    Carlsbad FO,  Farmington FO,  Oklahoma FO,  Rio Puerco FO,  Roswell FO,  State Office


Contacts

  • Contact 1 Name
    Catherine Brewster
  • Contact 1 Email
    [email protected]
  • Contact 1 Phone
    (505) 954-2170