As used in this act, the term "waste," in addition to its ordinary meaning, shall include:
A. "underground waste" as those words are generally understood in the geothermal business, and in any event to embrace the inefficient, excessive or improper use or dissipation of the reservoir fluids or energy, including the natural energy of the heated fluids or the natural heat of the earth, and the locating, spacing, drilling, equipping, operating or producing of any well or wells in a manner that would reduce or tend to reduce the total quantity of geothermal resources ultimately recovered from any geothermal reservoir;
B. "surface waste" as those words are generally understood in the geothermal business, and in any event to embrace the unnecessary or excessive surface loss or destruction without beneficial use, however caused, of geothermal resources of any type or in any form, or any product thereof, and including the loss or destruction of geothermal resources resulting from leakage, evaporation or seepage, especially incident to or resulting from the manner of spacing, equipping, operating or producing of any well or wells, or incident to or resulting from the inefficient transportation, use or storage of geothermal resources;
C. the production from any well or wells in this state of geothermal resources in excess of the reasonable market demand therefor, in excess of the capacity of the geothermal transportation facility connected thereto to efficiently receive and transport such geothermal resources, or in excess of the capacity of a geothermal utilization facility to efficiently receive and utilize such geothermal resources;
D. the nonratable purchase or taking of geothermal resources within a geothermal reservoir in this state. Such nonratable taking or purchasing causes or results in excessive or improper dissipation of reservoir energy and results in waste, as defined in Subsection A of this section, and is in violation of Section 14 [71-5-14 NMSA 1978] of the Geothermal Resources Conservation Act; and
E. drilling or producing operations for geothermal resources within any area containing commercial deposits of potash where such operations would have the effect unduly to reduce the total quantity of such commercial deposits of potash which may reasonably be recovered in commercial quantities or where such operations would interfere unduly with the orderly development of such potash deposits.
As used in this act, the term "waste," in addition to its ordinary meaning, shall include:
A. "underground waste" as those words are generally understood in the geothermal business, and in any event to embrace the inefficient, excessive or improper use or dissipation of the reservoir fluids or energy, including the natural energy of the heated fluids or the natural heat of the earth, and the locating, spacing, drilling, equipping, operating or producing of any well or wells in a manner that would reduce or tend to reduce the total quantity of geothermal resources ultimately recovered from any geothermal reservoir;
B. "surface waste" as those words are generally understood in the geothermal business, and in any event to embrace the unnecessary or excessive surface loss or destruction without beneficial use, however caused, of geothermal resources of any type or in any form, or any product thereof, and including the loss or destruction of geothermal resources resulting from leakage, evaporation or seepage, especially incident to or resulting from the manner of spacing, equipping, operating or producing of any well or wells, or incident to or resulting from the inefficient transportation, use or storage of geothermal resources;
C. the production from any well or wells in this state of geothermal resources in excess of the reasonable market demand therefor, in excess of the capacity of the geothermal transportation facility connected thereto to efficiently receive and transport such geothermal resources, or in excess of the capacity of a geothermal utilization facility to efficiently receive and utilize such geothermal resources;
D. the nonratable purchase or taking of geothermal resources within a geothermal reservoir in this state. Such nonratable taking or purchasing causes or results in excessive or improper dissipation of reservoir energy and results in waste, as defined in Subsection A of this section, and is in violation of Section 14 [71-5-14 NMSA 1978] of the Geothermal Resources Conservation Act; and
E. drilling or producing operations for geothermal resources within any area containing commercial deposits of potash where such operations would have the effect unduly to reduce the total quantity of such commercial deposits of potash which may reasonably be recovered in commercial quantities or where such operations would interfere unduly with the orderly development of such potash deposits.
As used in this act, the term "waste," in addition to its ordinary meaning, shall include:
A. "underground waste" as those words are generally understood in the geothermal business, and in any event to embrace the inefficient, excessive or improper use or dissipation of the reservoir fluids or energy, including the natural energy of the heated fluids or the natural heat of the earth, and the locating, spacing, drilling, equipping, operating or producing of any well or wells in a manner that would reduce or tend to reduce the total quantity of geothermal resources ultimately recovered from any geothermal reservoir;
B. "surface waste" as those words are generally understood in the geothermal business, and in any event to embrace the unnecessary or excessive surface loss or destruction without beneficial use, however caused, of geothermal resources of any type or in any form, or any product thereof, and including the loss or destruction of geothermal resources resulting from leakage, evaporation or seepage, especially incident to or resulting from the manner of spacing, equipping, operating or producing of any well or wells, or incident to or resulting from the inefficient transportation, use or storage of geothermal resources;
C. the production from any well or wells in this state of geothermal resources in excess of the reasonable market demand therefor, in excess of the capacity of the geothermal transportation facility connected thereto to efficiently receive and transport such geothermal resources, or in excess of the capacity of a geothermal utilization facility to efficiently receive and utilize such geothermal resources;
D. the nonratable purchase or taking of geothermal resources within a geothermal reservoir in this state. Such nonratable taking or purchasing causes or results in excessive or improper dissipation of reservoir energy and results in waste, as defined in Subsection A of this section, and is in violation of Section 14 [71-5-14 NMSA 1978] of the Geothermal Resources Conservation Act; and
E. drilling or producing operations for geothermal resources within any area containing commercial deposits of potash where such operations would have the effect unduly to reduce the total quantity of such commercial deposits of potash which may reasonably be recovered in commercial quantities or where such operations would interfere unduly with the orderly development of such potash deposits.
