Is this not the San Juan field north of Farmington NM?
Drilling has been ongoing there for years
Nope....Farmington is the San Juan Basin...this is SE of Farmington in the Delaware and Permian Basin.
Actually, it’s the Delaware Basin in West Texas and Southeast New Mexico. The oil and gas industry has known about it for about a hundred years. But the federal government just now figured out that it was there. So, they “discovered” something everybody else was aware of around 1920.
Opposite corner of the state.