COMMENT:
For the 2nd time in a month and a half, the Raton Range has advertised for Royal Dutch Shell with an article about their hopes to drill in North Eastern New Mexico. Asking for one size fits all from county to county, industry is doing their best to convince local county governments with fancy dinners and stories of untold riches. Here is industry's 2nd advertisment by Todd Wildermuth, Editor of the Raton Range. Raton boasts the Raton Basin, already becoming dewatered according to OGAP director in a statement in 2009. Google earth this area to see the industrialization of this area and compare to San Juan County near Farmington. Both areas have fallen victim to the oil industry as the land has become riddled with roads, well pads and the air and water stink with fumes from drilling and hyrdaulic fracturing. Today they want the Las Vegas Basin.
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May 22, 2012
Shell
Oil Company hopes to move ahead soon with one or more new test wells in
northeast New Mexico that could eventually lead the company to
establish natural gas drilling operations throughout this part of the
state, including Colfax County.
A Shell official this month told
the Colfax County commission that the company wants to be ready with an
adequate supply of natural gas when demand — and prices — for the
natural resource rise. Although prices are at a 10-year low, the markets
for natural gas are “always evolving,” according to Mike Smith, an
enterprise service management adviser for Shell.
Eight counties
in northeast New Mexico are referred to by industry officials as the
Penn Play, an area that has gained attention to a degree that prompted a
few industry representatives to make a presentation at January’s New
Mexico Association of Counties Conference. One of the key points made
during the presentation was that the companies would want a “uniform
regulatory climate” across the multiple counties where they believe a
large pool of natural gas may sit among the rock layers some 7,000 to
13,000 feet below the surface.....continued.....
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