N.M. Code R. § 19.14.1.9
B. All owners, operators, contractors, drillers, transporters, service companies, pipe pulling and salvage contractors and other persons shall at all times conduct their operations in the drilling, equipping, operating, producing, and plugging and abandoning of geothermal resource wells in a manner that will prevent waste of geothermal resources, and shall not wastefully utilize geothermal resources or allow leakage of such resources from a geothermal reservoir, or from wells, tanks, containers, or pipe, or other storage, conduit or operating equipment.
[Rule G-3; Recompiled 12/31/01]