Land, title & right-of-way services in Eddy County, New Mexico

Eddy County has no federal geothermal leasing on record. 12,792 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 161 fiber or telecom grants and 2,988 transmission or power lines. We run title, leasing, and right-of-way acquisition on both sides of the federal line: the record above, and the private ground it's woven through.
Delaware Basin: midstream and takeaway rights-of-way lead the federal record here.

No federal geothermal leasing on record here.

The federal layer is quiet. That can mean the resource isn't there, or that the ground is private and state and never shows up in BLM's record. The second case is common across the West, and it's where title work starts.

2,988 transmission and power line rights-of-way cross federal ground here.

12,792 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Eddy County, 555 of them issued in the last twelve months. 158 applications are pending.

Of those, 161 fiber optic or communication grants, 2,988 transmission, distribution, or energy-facility grants, 7,716 oil and gas facility grants. The named holders are the companies spending money on linear infrastructure in this county, and the federal segment is usually the shorter part of their route. The private miles in between are the work.

13 open mining claims compete for the same ground.

Mining claims don't stop a geothermal or right-of-way project, but they compete for surface, complicate siting and access, and each claimant is a party you have to deal with. 13 are active. Which ones actually sit in your footprint is a mapping question, and we answer it tract by tract.

2,768 authorized federal oil and gas leases on 1,252,842 acres, 82 of them issued in the last twelve months. 4,714 more have been closed out. Where oil and gas leasing is active, the mineral estate is very often severed from the surface, and that is the title question that decides whether ground is leasable.

The private half of Eddy County isn't in any database.

Everything above is what the federal government controls. It does not show who owns a severed mineral or geothermal estate on private ground, whether that title is clean, what liens sit against it, or which families you'll be negotiating with. That lives in the Eddy County recorder's office, and it is the step that decides whether you can actually lease the ground.

• Free Eval
  A self-serve read on your target area in the county.
• Area Assessment
  Flat fee. We pull the full federal record for your area of interest and tell you what's held, who holds it, and what to do next.
• Diligence & acquisition
  County title, tract by tract, with surface, mineral, and geothermal estates run separately. Then we lease it.