New Mexico Oil And Gas Lease Sales

BLM New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas conducts oil and gas lease sales quarterly in accordance with the Mineral Leasing Act and Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands, as amended, when eligible lands are available for lease

As of January 1, 2018, if you would like to nominate lands for a lease sale, you are required to submit an Expression of Interest through the National Fluid Lease Sale System (NFLSS) at https://nflss.blm.gov/.

BLM New Mexico’s lease sales are held online through EnergyNet (https://www.energynet.com/govt_listing.pl).  For more information on the transition to online lease sales, effective January 2017, please see the BLM news release: BLM Takes Important Step Toward Online Oil & Gas Lease Sales

View current and recent oil and gas lease sale notices and results below.

You may access the project page using the links provided below, or through the ePlanning homepage (https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/home) by searching the project name or the project NEPA number. Please note, ePlanning only functions in Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Microsoft Edge. Use in Internet Explorer is not supported.

How to Comment

How to Comment on New Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sales

2024 Lease Sales

Q4 2024 Lease Sale:

Q3 2024 Lease Sale: DOI-BLM-NM-0040-2024-0002-EA

Q2 2024 Lease Sale:   DOI-BLM-NM-0000-2023-0002-OTHER_NEPA              

2023 Lease Sales

May 2023 Lease Sale: DOI-BLM-NM-0000-2022-0003-OTHER_NEPA

Q4 2023 Lease Sale: DOI-BLM-NM-0000-2023-0001-OTHER_NEPA

2022 Lease Sales

2022 Lease Sale: DOI-BLM-NM-0000-2021-0002-OTHER_NEPA 

 

2021 Lease Sales

The Bureau of Land Management exercised its discretion to not hold lease sales in the second quarter of Calendar Year 2021. More information: blm.gov/press-release/statement-second-quarter-oil-and-gas-lease-sales.

January 14, 2021 Lease Sale: DOI-BLM-NM-0000-2020-0005-OTHER_NEPA

The oil and gas lease sale scheduled for April 2021 has been postponed.

July 14-15, 2021: DOI-BLM-NM-0000-2020-0007-OTHER_NEPA 

October 13-14, 2021

  • Closing Date for Expressions of Interest - March 5, 2021
  • Public Scoping Period – TBD
  • EA & Unsigned FONSI Public Review and Comment Period – June 7, 2021 thru June 18, 2021
  • Lease Sale Notice and Protest Period – August 2, 2021 thru August 11, 2021
2020 Lease Sales

February 6, 2020 Lease Sale: DOI-BLM-NM-0000-2019-0007-OTHER_NEPA

Week of May 20-21, 2020 Lease Sale - DOI-BLM-NM-0000-2020-0002-OTHER_NEPA. The May 2020 oil and gas lease parcels will be offered at the August 27, 2020 Sale. 

August 26, 2020 Lease Sale – DOI-BLM-NM-0000-2020-003-OTHER_-NEPA

October 29, 2020 Lease Sale - DOI-BLM-NM-0000-2020-0004-OTHER_NEPA

2019 Lease Sales

March 28, 2019 Lease Sale (Rio Puerco, Farmington, Carlsbad, Oklahoma): DOI-BLM-NM-0000-2019-0001-OTHER_NEPA

June 20, 2019 Lease Sale (Rio Puerco, Farmington, Oklahoma, Pecos District): DOI-BLM-NM-0000-2019-0003-OTHER_NEPA

September 5, 2019 Lease Sale: DOI-BLM-NM-0000-2019-0005-OTHER_NEPA

November 7, 2019 Lease Sale Title: November 7, 2019 Lease Sale: DOI-BLM-NM-0000-2019-0006-OTHER_NEPA

2018 Lease Sales

Select the lease sale of interest to view all information and documents related to that sale.

December 7, 2017 Lease Sale

  • EA and Unsigned FONSI 30 day review – 07/10/2017 through 08/08/2017
  • Lease Sale Notice and Protest Period – 09/07/2017 through 10/06/2017 

March 8, 2018 Lease Sale (Deferred: Press Release)

  • EA and Unsigned FONSI 30 day review – 09/21/2017 through 10/20/2017
  • Lease Sale Notice and Protest Period – 12/06/2017 through 01/04/2018 

June 7, 2018 Lease Sale

  • EA and Unsigned FONSI 30 day review – 12/20/2017 through 01/19/2018
  • Lease Sale Notice and Protest Period – 04/23/2018 through 05/02/2018 

September 5 & 6, 2018 Lease Sale

  • Scoping Period - 04/09/2018 through 04/20/2018
  • Lease Sale Notice and Protest Period - 07/23/2018 through 08/01/2018

Week of December 3, 2018 Lease Sale (Rio Puerco, Farmington, Pecos District, Oklahoma) - DOI-BLM-NM-0000-2019-0002-OTHER_NEPA

2017 Lease Sales

Select the lease sale of interest to view all information and documents related to that sale.

 

January 25, 2017 Lease Sale

  • Two Week Public Scoping Documents – 06/06/2016 through 06/20/2016
  • EA & Unsigned FONSI 30 day review – 08/04/2016 through 09/02/2016
  • Lease Sale Notice & Protest Period – 11/07/2016 through 12/06/2016

June 8, 2017 Lease Sale

  • Two Week Public Scoping Documents – 08/15/2016 through 08/29/2016
  • EA & Unsigned FONSI 30 day review – 10/24/2016 through 11/22/2016
  • Lease Sale Notice and Protest Period – 01/18/2017 through 02/16/2017

September 7, 2017 Lease Sale

  • Two Week Public Scoping Documents – 11/21/2016 through 12/06/2016
  • EA and Unsigned FONSI 30 day review – 04/13/2017 through 05/12/2017
  • Lease Sale Notice and Protest Period – 06/07/2017 through 07/06/2017 
2016 Lease Sales

Please note that not all documents may be available at a given time. They will be added as they become available.

2015 Lease Sales

Please note that not all documents may be available at a given time. They will be added as they become available.

2014 Lease Sales

Please note that not all documents may be available at a given time. They will be added as they become available.

2013 Lease Sales

Please note that not all documents may be available at a given time. They will be added as they become available.

2012 and Earlier Lease Sales

Please note that not all documents may be available at a given time. They will be added as they become available.

2012

2011

2010 and Earlier (Notices and Results)