N.M. Stat. § 70-2-33
Definitions.
As used in the Oil and Gas Act:
A. "person" means:
(1)
any individual, estate, trust, receiver, cooperative association, club,
corporation, company, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate or other entity; or
(2)
the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof or the state or
any political subdivision thereof;
B. "pool" means an underground reservoir containing a common accumulation of
crude petroleum oil or natural gas or both. Each zone of a general structure, which
zone is completely separate from any other zone in the structure, is covered by the
word "pool" as used in the Oil and Gas Act. "Pool" is synonymous with "common
source of supply" and with "common reservoir";
C. "field" means the general area that is underlaid or appears to be underlaid by at
least one pool and also includes the underground reservoir or reservoirs containing the
crude petroleum oil or natural gas or both. The words "field" and "pool" mean the same
thing when only one underground reservoir is involved; however, "field", unlike "pool",
may relate to two or more pools;
D. "product" means any commodity or thing made or manufactured from crude
petroleum oil or natural gas and all derivatives of crude petroleum oil or natural gas,
including refined crude oil, crude tops, topped crude, processed crude petroleum,
residue from crude petroleum, cracking stock, uncracked fuel oil, treated crude oil, fuel
oil, residuum, gas oil, naphtha, distillate, gasoline, kerosene, benzine, wash oil, waste
oil, lubricating oil and blends or mixtures of crude petroleum oil or natural gas or any
derivative thereof;
E. "owner" means the person who has the right to drill into and to produce from any
pool and to appropriate the production either for the person or for the person and
another;
F. "producer" means the owner of a well capable of producing oil or natural gas or
both in paying quantities;
G. "gas transportation facility" means a pipeline in operation serving gas wells for
the transportation of natural gas or some other device or equipment in like operation
whereby natural gas produced from gas wells connected therewith can be transported
or used for consumption;
H. "correlative rights" means the opportunity afforded, so far as it is practicable to do
so, to the owner of each property in a pool to produce without waste the owner's just
and equitable share of the oil or gas or both in the pool, being an amount, so far as can
be practicably determined and so far as can be practicably obtained without waste,
substantially in the proportion that the quantity of recoverable oil or gas or both under
the property bears to the total recoverable oil or gas or both in the pool and, for such
purpose, to use the owner's just and equitable share of the reservoir energy;
I. "potash" means the naturally occurring bedded deposits of the salts of the
element potassium;
J. "casinghead gas" means any gas or vapor or both indigenous to an oil stratum
and produced from such stratum with oil, including any residue gas remaining after the
processing of casinghead gas to remove its liquid components;
K. "produced water" means a fluid that is an incidental byproduct from drilling for or
the production of oil and gas;
L. "commission" means the oil conservation commission; and
M. "division" means the oil conservation division of the energy, minerals and natural
resources department.