Welcome to the New Mexico State Land Office Map Service. We are proud to make available
to you our state trust lands ownership and lease data in the Land Status Map Service
and oil and gas well locations, identification, some useful additional geologic
and topographic information in the Oil and Gas, Minerals Map Service.
This is a quick reference guide to get you started. Please note that this map service
works best in Internet Explorer 6.0 and above. Remember also that if you need help
with navigation at any point in this part of our website, click on the "help" question
mark shortcut to our help menu, found in the upper right corner of our window, and
you will get this tutorial back up in a separate window.
If you need further assistance with this map service, please email: logic@slo.state.nm.us.
We will respond as soon as possible to any questions, requests, or suggestions.
This brief tutorial has been prepared with the intent of providing quick but complete
instruction in using our map services. Scroll down to see a layout similar to what
you see when you open one of our map services.
• Click within any of the rounded rectangles to get further explanation of that
portion of the service.
• There is a special section linked to more detailed description of the Oil, Gas,
and Minerals map service.
There is a ten minute time limit on leaving this map window open but inactive; after
that time has passed, the application will either need to be refreshed with your
browser refresh button (the map comes back to the same extent), or be closed and
opened back up (full extent) to access it.
If you intend to use the PDF function to save or print your map, you will need to
either "temporarily allow pop-ups", which will allow pop-ups only for the internet
session you have currently open, or go into your pop-up blocker and set it to permanently
allow pop-ups from our website.
Oil,Gas and Minerals Map Service: This map
service is more oriented towards the oil and gas, and minerals and related industries.
In addition to the state lands ownership and lease boundaries, this service shows
if a state land parcel is restricted in leasing for oil and gas, as well as oil
and gas well locations and identification, and some useful additional geologic and
topographic information.
On Oil and Gas Leases:There are restrictions
which exist, which may block what appears to be open acreage from being available
for leasing.
Click Here to See additional
information on the Lease Restrictions
or Contact the Oil, Gas, and Minerals Division to verify leasibility.
Lease Restrictions Some state lands have restrictions which can either influence
oil and gas operations on them, or restrict them from leasing for oil and gas altogether.
This is the listing of restrictions currently shown in this map service, and is
also available inside the service by expanding the legend for Oil and Gas Leasing
Restrictions on the left side of the map.
Those restrictions which can influence operations show a red hatching across them;
they do not necessarily eliminate a parcel from availability to lease, but may require
specific actions to be taken before either leasing or drilling can be approved.
These actions include following either State Land Office guidelines for lease requirements,
or New Mexico Oil Conservation Division rules for drilling. Examples of the State
Land Office requirements include "Must join (either) communitization (or) unit agreement",
which indicates the tract of interest falls within boundaries of an existing agreement
and, if leased, the new lessee must agree to join in that agreement before the lease
is approved. Examples of Oil Conservation Division rules include "Drilling restricted
due to potash", or Gas storage unit present". These require special precautions
to be in place before drilling is approved by OCD.
Those restrictions which are solid red eliminate a tract from availability to lease.
Under most circumstances, the tracts with these restrictions placed upon them are
not currently leasable.
Additional Layers Information in Oil, Gas and Minerals Map Service
Unit Boundaries In New Mexico, there are
often oil and/or natural gas unit agreements established which influence production.
We've provided the boundaries for existing units which include state lands for your
use in this map service.
Geologic Regions These are generalized outlines
of the subsurface geologic regions which make up New Mexico; they include the major
oil- and gas-productive and potentially productive geologic basins and platforms
of the state.
Geologic Map of New Mexico This is from information
published by the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico
Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico (http://geoinfo.nmt.edu),
and available as a free GIS download from New Mexico Resource Geographic Information
System Program (http://rgis.unm.edu), a cooperative program between the University
of New Mexico and the New Mexico Information Technology Commission, with Earth Data
Analysis Center (http://edac.unm.edu).
Volcanic Vents This coverage comes from
New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources; it is intended to give a quick
sense of where vulcanism was most prevalent in New Mexico.
Continental Divide This is a simple delineation
of the Continental Divide, for orientation purposes.
Preferred Browser: A reminder… this mapping service works best with Internet Explorer
6.0 or newer.
Scale dependent: the ability to see these layers depends on what scale your map
is. If you are looking closer in, you'll be able to see more detail.
Thank you for your interest!