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Total spills were at the lowest level since 2013, the report read.
Increases in emissions could be tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, the report read, which drove down fuel demand while production continued to grow, meaning less natural gas could be sent to market and was potentially released through venting or burned through flaring.
In New Mexico, 88 percent of the reported spills occurred in Eddy and Lea counties in the southeast corner of the state and the prolific Permian Basin which spreads across the border into West Texas.
Despite the decline in spills, New Mexico still had double the spills of Wyoming and more than triple Colorado’s, the report read.
Reported oil and gas spills declined considerably last year in Colorado, state data shows.
Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission data indicates companies reported 476 spills last year, down from 639 in 2019.
The group Center for Western Priorities says that 349 of last yearâs spills involved new releases, as opposed to companies reporting what are referred to as historic spills that occurred earlier but they only discovered last year. It says that of the 349 new spills, the company responsible for the most â13.2%â was Caerus Oil and Gas, which operates locally in the Piceance Basin.
The COGCC database indicates that spills reported in 2020 included 258 in Weld County, which last year led the state in drilling activity, and has more than 19,000 active wells. Sixty-three were reported in Garfield County, which ranked third among counties in drilling activity last year and has 11,922 active wells.