DAGGER DRAW COMPRESSOR STATION

Dagger Draw Compressor Station is a Clean Air Act-regulated natural gas extraction asset located approximately 19 miles southwest of Artesia, New Mexico, in Eddy County, operating under NAICS 211130. EPA ECHO records aggregate two facility identifiers (110007021007 and 110023027375) under the Dagger Draw label, with a derived 24-month penalty figure of $12,641,946.40 computed from a five-year total penalty of $31,604,866 reported by a third-party ECHO mirror [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip] [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110007021007/dagger-draw-compressor-station-artesia-nm]. The most recent permit action on file is dated September 16, 2021. ECHO reports zero quarters with noncompliance in the trailing 24 months, yielding a violation_count_24mo of 0 despite the presence of one historical formal enforcement action [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110007021007/dagger-draw-compressor-station-artesia-nm].

The asset is privately held and therefore carries no CIK, 10-K, or 10-Q disclosure surface. No SEC filings were returned in the research bundle. State-level enforcement context is supplied by a New Mexico Environment Department settlement with Cotton Draw Midstream, LLC — a separate but geographically proximate Permian midstream operator whose case file (EPCEB COT-Multi-2401) establishes the regulatory baseline NMED applies to compressor and gas-processing assets across the region [source: https://service.web.env.nm.gov/urls/msDGbikH]. Air-permit documentation filed by Durango Midstream, LLC and Frontier Field Services, LLC on January 18, 2022 confirms the Dagger Draw Gas Plant is a New Source Review-regulated minor source under the New Mexico Air Quality Control Act [source: https://www.env.nm.gov/surface-water-quality/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2022/01/A-0001-Durango_Dagger-DrawGP_APP_2022-0118.pdf].

Dagger Draw's compliance footprint is defined primarily by Clean Air Act jurisdiction administered through the New Mexico Environment Department Air Quality Bureau. ECHO-derived records show one inspection on file, zero violation quarters across the rolling three-year window, and one formal action during the five-year look-back. Days since last evaluation stood at 1,627 as of the PollutionScan snapshot [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110007021007/dagger-draw-compressor-station-artesia-nm]. That gap is worth flagging. The $31.6 million five-year penalty total referenced in third-party ECHO extracts is materially larger than typical compressor-station assessments and warrants primary-source verification against the EPA ECHO exporter download before the figure is cited externally [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The chronological record across the past 24 months opens in January 2022, when Durango Midstream, LLC — operating the Dagger Draw Gas Plant on behalf of Frontier Field Services, LLC — submitted a New Source Review Significant Revision application to NMED. Prepared by Trinity Consultants, the filing sought modifications to existing Air Quality Bureau permit A-0001 [source: https://www.env.nm.gov/surface-water-quality/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2022/01/A-0001-Durango_Dagger-DrawGP_APP_2022-0118.pdf]. The most recent permit action in the ECHO record dates to September 16, 2021 — roughly four months before that application landed — suggesting the 2022 submission was either pending resolution or resolved through a channel not captured in ECHO. Through 2024 and into 2025, NMED's Compliance and Enforcement Division pursued a parallel action against Cotton Draw Midstream, LLC under case number EPCEB COT-Multi-2401, resolving alleged violations of the New Mexico Air Quality Control Act, NMSA 1978, via Settlement Agreement and Stipulated Final Compliance Order. That procedural template applies directly to compressor-station operators in Eddy County [source: https://service.web.env.nm.gov/urls/msDGbikH].

No federal enforcement filings naming Dagger Draw Compressor Station appear in the CourtListener or PACER surface returned by the research bundle, and no NGO complaint or citizen-suit filings are present. ECHO data indicates the environmental justice index average for the two associated facility IDs is 0.0. That figure reflects either a genuinely low demographic-exposure score in the surrounding Eddy County census block groups or an unpopulated EJScreen field in the ECHO export [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. A separate facility record for the Dagger Draw Gas Plant catalogued by PlainEnviro references 20.1 million pounds of historical toxic releases across eight chemicals, including five classified carcinogens. That figure does not appear in the ECHO top_pollutants field for the compressor station itself and must be read as attributable to the co-located gas plant rather than the compressor asset [source: https://plainenviro.com/facilities/new-mexico].

ECHO records show zero quarters of noncompliance for Dagger Draw Compressor Station in the trailing 24 months, producing a violation_count_24mo of 0 under the standard derivation methodology (viol_24mo = min(qtrs_with_nc, 8)) [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The derived 24-month penalty figure of $12,641,946.40 is a proportional allocation — calculated as 24/60 multiplied by the $31,604,866 five-year penalty total reported by a third-party ECHO mirror. That allocation is anomalously high for a Clean Air Act compressor-station record carrying only one formal action, and the underlying EPA primary record should be consulted before the dollar amount is cited externally [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110007021007/dagger-draw-compressor-station-artesia-nm]. The single formal action on file falls under Clean Air Act program jurisdiction. The specific penalty date, statutory citation, and any consent-decree terms are not disclosed in the research bundle.

On the state side, NMED's Compliance and Enforcement Division executed a Settlement Agreement and Stipulated Final Compliance Order against Cotton Draw Midstream, LLC under case number EPCEB COT-Multi-2401, resolving alleged violations of the New Mexico Air Quality Control Act, NMSA 1978 [source: https://service.web.env.nm.gov/urls/msDGbikH]. That action does not name Dagger Draw Compressor Station directly. It is cited here as the governing state enforcement template for Permian compressor assets in the same county. No CWA, RCRA, EPCRA, or TSCA actions against Dagger Draw appear in the returned bundle.

Dagger Draw Compressor Station (FRS 110007021007), Artesia, NM: The primary ECHO record places the facility 19 miles southwest of Artesia in Eddy County. Clean Air Act program status is listed as Active, with one inspection, one formal action, zero violation quarters over three years, and a five-year penalty total of $31,604,866 per third-party ECHO extract [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110007021007/dagger-draw-compressor-station-artesia-nm]. The PollutionScan grade is C (73/100).

Dagger Draw Compressor Station (FRS 110023027375), Artesia, NM: The second facility identifier aggregated under the Dagger Draw label in the ECHO summary is not individually profiled in the returned research bundle. Its inclusion drives the facility_count of 2 reported in the ECHO summary [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Dagger Draw Gas Plant (Durango Midstream / Frontier Field Services), Eddy County, NM: A distinct NMED-permitted asset operating under Air Quality Bureau permit A-0001. On January 18, 2022, Durango Midstream, LLC filed a New Source Review Significant Revision application — prepared by Trinity Consultants on behalf of Frontier Field Services, LLC — seeking modifications to that permit [source: https://www.env.nm.gov/surface-water-quality/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2022/01/A-0001-Durango_Dagger-DrawGP_APP_2022-0118.pdf]. A separate third-party catalogue attributes 20.1 million pounds of toxic releases across eight chemicals — five of them carcinogens — to this gas plant [source: https://plainenviro.com/facilities/new-mexico].

Agave Dagger Draw Gas Plant, Artesia, NM: Listed as a nearby facility in the ECHO mirror with $0 in penalties and no logged violations, it shares the Dagger Draw naming convention and geographic cluster but is operated separately [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110007021007/dagger-draw-compressor-station-artesia-nm].

Cotton Draw Midstream assets, Eddy County, NM: Though not a Dagger Draw facility, Cotton Draw Midstream's NMED settlement under EPCEB COT-Multi-2401 establishes the regional enforcement reference point for comparable compressor and midstream operators in Eddy County [source: https://service.web.env.nm.gov/urls/msDGbikH].

The ECHO summary returns an empty top_pollutants array for Dagger Draw Compressor Station, which is consistent with the facility being regulated as a Clean Air Act minor source without a Toxics Release Inventory reporting obligation at the compressor unit itself [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Compressor stations in natural gas extraction (NAICS 211130) typically emit nitrogen oxides (NOx) from engine combustion, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from pneumatic devices and fugitive equipment leaks, and methane as an unintended release. Hazardous air pollutants — including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes — are reported under Subpart OOOOa of 40 CFR Part 60 for affected facilities in this class.

The co-located Dagger Draw Gas Plant record catalogued by PlainEnviro references five carcinogens among eight reported chemicals and an aggregate 20.1 million pounds of historical releases. The specific chemical speciation and reporting years are not disclosed in the snippet returned, and primary TRI records should be consulted for that detail [source: https://plainenviro.com/facilities/new-mexico]. The NMED Air Quality Bureau application from January 2022 confirms NSR applicability for the gas plant, placing it within the state's ambient-air-quality modeling and emission-limit framework under the New Mexico Air Quality Control Act [source: https://www.env.nm.gov/surface-water-quality/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2022/01/A-0001-Durango_Dagger-DrawGP_APP_2022-0118.pdf].

EJ implications: ECHO reports an EJ index average of 0.0 for the two Dagger Draw compressor facility IDs. In EJScreen terms, that reflects a low combined demographic-plus-environmental indicator score for the surrounding block groups — a direct function of the rural Eddy County siting, 19 miles from the nearest municipal center [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110007021007/dagger-draw-compressor-station-artesia-nm]. The low EJ index does not account for cumulative Permian Basin airshed loading from adjacent gas processing, flaring, and compressor infrastructure operating across the same county.

Within its NAICS 211/211130 peer set, Dagger Draw Compressor Station's derived 24-month penalty of $12,641,946.40 is lower than all three listed peers, yet it is paired with zero violation quarters — a profile that mirrors Greka Bell, where a high historical penalty proportional-allocation coexists with no active noncompliance in the current window [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The contrast with the other two peers is sharper. Red Hills Gas Processing Plant and Azalea Battery both carry eight violation quarters in the rolling window alongside penalties of $19.1 million and $16.1 million respectively, indicating active enforcement postures that Dagger Draw does not exhibit in the ECHO record [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110007021007/dagger-draw-compressor-station-artesia-nm]. All four assets share an EJ index average of 0.0, reflecting the rural siting characteristic of Permian and adjacent-basin midstream infrastructure.

Dagger Draw Compressor Station is privately held and files no SEC reports. No Item 1A risk-factor disclosure is available in the research bundle. Forward-looking environmental risk for the asset is therefore inferable only from the NMED air-permit posture, which shows the operator pursuing an NSR Significant Revision under permit A-0001 as of January 2022 — a status that subjects the facility to potentially lower permitted emission thresholds and expanded modeling requirements under the New Mexico Air Quality Control Act [source: https://www.env.nm.gov/surface-water-quality/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2022/01/A-0001-Durango_Dagger-DrawGP_APP_2022-0118.pdf]. Regional enforcement precedent makes that exposure concrete. The NMED settlement with Cotton Draw Midstream under EPCEB COT-Multi-2401 signals that the state Compliance and Enforcement Division is actively pursuing Air Quality Control Act violations against Permian midstream operators via Stipulated Final Compliance Orders — a procedural tool that can attach penalty obligations and operational compliance schedules simultaneously [source: https://service.web.env.nm.gov/urls/msDGbikH].