Oil & Gas
Ecoflight over Navajoland
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New Mexico is a leading producer of crude oil and natural gas.
Oil and gas extraction and production (refineries, cracking plants, pipeline leaks) account for 20% of all greenhouse gas emissions even before final uses.
- The San Juan Basin contains the largest US fields of natural gas.
- The Permian basin holds three of our nations largest 100 oil fields – the largest in the intermountain west.
- New Mexico also extracts and produces carbon dioxide at the Bravo Dome area.
Thirty-one percent of the electricity generated in New Mexico comes from natural gas. Two-thirds of our homes use natural gas for heating. About 20-25% of the state's General Fund comes from oil and gas revenues, replacing income taxes.
