What share of open New Mexico disposal wells inject each year?
Short answer: in 2025, 651 of New Mexico's 759 open saltwater disposal wells injected water, which is 85.8 percent.
What counts as open?
An open well is one that has not been plugged.
How has utilization changed?
In 2025, 85.8 percent of open wells injected. That is down from a peak of 95.5 percent in 2014.
Is the fleet getting bigger or smaller?
Smaller. The number of open wells has dropped from 847 in 2017 to 759 in 2025.
Why does it matter to operators?
Operators are pushing more water through fewer wells. That puts more weight on every tank battery upstream of those wells.
What can you control at the tank?
Oil floating on top of the water in your tanks still leaves on a vacuum truck, and that costs you money every haul. The Freedom Tool skims that oil off inside the tank, captures richer vapors, and cuts down on vacuum truck trips. It has no moving parts. Contact us to see if it fits your site.
Source: New Mexico state C115 injection reporting, charted by X Tank Co.