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The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (“PRC”) has advanced extensive revisions to New Mexico’s Community Solar Rule, 17.9.573 NMAC. The amendments would substantially reshape project selection, interconnection review, subscriber protections, low-income participation, consolidated billing, and ongoing compliance obligations for subscriber organizations and qualifying utilities. The revisions follow an extended stakeholder process in PRC Docket No. […]
This week, the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) published two direct final rules (“DFR”) to amend its regulations pertaining to minimum statewide bonding requirements, high pressure flare measurement and sampling requirements, and leak detection and repair (“LDAR”) reporting. Bonding On December 18, 2025, BLM published a DFR to amend its regulations pertaining to Federal Onshore […]
The New Mexico Oil Conservation Division (“OCD”) recently provided advance notice to industry and operators regarding the staggered implementation of new policy requirements. In total, three Notices propose to change OCD requirements for the following processes: (1) Changes to the Hearing Submission Process, (2) Procedure for Deviation from Orders, and (3) Evidentiary Requirements for Compulsory […]
The Big Beautiful Bill or the Reconciliation Act of 2025 (the Act) (House Resolution 1), contains an important provision for upstream oil and natural gas operators on federal lands. This provision directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to draft a rule authorizing commingling of production from diverse mineral ownership (federal and fee, federal, state […]
Each year, the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) allows states to determine whether they want to participate in a royalty reporting simplification process, benefiting leaseholders of marginal wells. The process includes ONRR providing a list of qualifying marginal federal oil and gas properties to the states receiving a portion of federal royalties from those properties. This report is issued…
The Royalty Resiliency Act, House Resolution 7377, (“the Act”) was signed into law by President Biden on September 20, 2024, and requires the Secretary of the Interior to issue all determinations of allocations of production for units and communitization agreements (“CA”) within 120 days of a request for determination. Sponsored by Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX-38) and passed by unanimous consent…