NEW MEXICO OIL AND GAS ASSOCIATION

摘要

Fellow New Mexicans and Members of the Energy Industry,The discovery of oil and natural gas in the Permian Basin 100 years ago was a momentous event for the United States and altered the course of New Mexico's history.After the Westbrook Field was found in Mitchell County,Texas,in 1920,major companies and small independents began to flock to other counties in West Texas and further west into Lea and Eddy counties,New Mexico,to drill for oil.