You won’t get that far into new Mexico that way. If the vertical bore is in tlTexas you’d only be able to go only almost two miles horizontally into NM.
Eclipse Resources Corporation did a 20,803 lateral for the ‘Purple Hayes’ well about two-three year back, for the Utica.
It’s New Mexico. You can probably bribe the Governor who forbids it, then go ahead and drill right there in NM. Have a pipe leading to Texas and pretend that’s where it was drilled.
Corruption abounds there.