I seriously doubt he will be on a federal lease.
It WILL be on a federal lease - no doubt the actual one is confidential. However, I bet a bunch of his enviro-baddies will show up to tell him how terrible the state oil and gas agency is operating now that Richardson is gone and Republican governor Martinez has kicked them out of the power positions.
There might be opportunities here. Depleted well, pipe still in place, skinny stick of a body. What diameter is the piping for an oil well?
How many here noted the administrations intention to strongly review oil well drilling contracts on private property? The communists may have found a way of stopping drilling on private property.