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Table 6.—Oil and gas well drilling in 1967, by counties 
559 
County 
Oil 
Gas 
Dry 
Total 
Footage 
Exploratory completions: 
Chaves                                     
4 
 
32 
36 
126,824 
Colfax                                                
 
 
2 
2 
10,426 
Curry                                                
Eddy                                      
Guadalupe                                            
J~ea                                       
McKinley                                   
RioArriba                                  
2 
 
17 
1 
1 
6 
 
3 
  
  
2 
22 
1 
27 
9 
1 
2 
30 
1 
47 
10 
2 
6,888 
254,049 
945 
458,700 
22,215 
20,732 
Roosevelt                                       
 
1 
19 
20 
89,747 
Sandoval                                              
 
 
7 
7 
23,847 
San Juan                                   
3 
1 
11 
15 
30,138 
San Miguel                                            
Santa Fe                                              
Union                                                
 
 
1 
2 
4 
1 
2 
4 
2,252 
8,409 
2,560 
Valencia                                             TotaL..            
                      
 
Development completions: 
Chaves                                     
Eddy                                      
Lea                                       
McKinley                                   
Rio Arriba                                  
 
 
1 
1 
2,480 
 
28 
11 
141 
180 
1,060,212 
 
184 
61 
221 
24 
5 
2 
9 
9 
1 
82 
9 
17 
34 
3 
7 
195 
87 
264 
28 
94 
682,505 
384,732 
2,107,398 
46,498 
551,936 
Roosevelt                                   
48 
1 
9 
58 
277,932 
Sandoval                                        
 
1 
1 
2 
3,500 
San Juan                                  Total                         
          
20 
147 
29 
196 
865,391 
 
563 
252 
109 
924 
4,919,892 
Total all drilling                            
591 
263 
250 
1,104 
5,980,104 
 Sources: Committee on Statistics of Drilling, American Association of Petroleum
Geologists (Southeastern New Mexico); Petroleum Information Corp., 1967 Resume,
Oil and Gas Operations in the Rocky Mountain Region, pp. C—14, C—is
(Northwestern New Mexico).