NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – It could be a big energy opportunity for New Mexico to help export natural gas from the Rocky Mountain basin to Asia. Governor Michelle Lunjan Grisham unveiled a potential partnership Monday.

That unveiling comes with a new report, highlighting two major routes to get Western Natural Gas from Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico out of the U.S. through the Pacific Ocean, to Japan."It identifies that we have nearly unlimited gas reserves. So 277 trillion cubic feet, and that's a very powerful representation about what we can provide with growing energy demands in this country and frankly beyond," said Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, (D-New Mexico).

The Japanese ambassador to the U.S. joined Governor Lujan Grisham and other state leaders to talk about the idea on Monday

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