GREKA BELL COMPRESSOR PLANT

Greka Bell Compressor Plant is a single-facility operation in the Crude Petroleum Extraction sector (NAICS 211120) headquartered in Santa Maria, California. EPA ECHO records identify one regulated facility under registry ID 110035846779, with a 24-month rolling penalty figure derived at approximately $26.16 million based on ECHO's exporter methodology — total five-year penalties prorated to a 24-month window [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. ECHO's summary shows zero formal violations recorded across the same 24-month interval, zero active permits listed at the query date of May 4, 2026, and an environmental justice index average reported as 0.0, which in ECHO's data model typically indicates missing or unassigned EJ screening rather than an affirmative finding of low exposure [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

That gap — zero coded violations against a eight-figure penalty total — is the headline data point. Under ECHO's derivation note, the penalty figure is computed as total_5yr × (24/60), implying historical enforcement activity that sits outside the 24-month violation window yet still produces a material monetary figure when annualized [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The arithmetic back-solves to a five-year penalty base of roughly $65.4 million attributed to facility ID 110035846779. Greka is privately held with no CIK and no SEC filings on record, so the standard 10-K and 10-Q overlay that would ordinarily contextualize contingent environmental liabilities is simply unavailable [source: https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany]. That disclosure gap matters. California-specific operating context adds another layer: on May 3, 2026, the last Persian Gulf crude cargo arrived at Long Beach, reshaping the in-state crude supply picture for small producers of exactly this type [source: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-05-03/californias-last-oil-shipment]. When import supply contracts, in-state upstream and midstream assets draw more regulatory scrutiny — and a Santa Maria Basin compressor plant carrying a nine-figure five-year penalty base is precisely the kind of asset that scrutiny reaches first.

The compliance picture for Greka Bell Compressor Plant is defined by what the public record does and does not contain. ECHO lists a single facility, registry ID 110035846779, associated with the Bell compressor operation in Santa Maria, California, and reports zero quarters with noncompliance flags across the most recent eight-quarter window used by the ECHO exporter [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That zero-violation count does not indicate the absence of historical enforcement. It indicates the absence of coded noncompliance quarters within the 24-month lookback as of the May 4, 2026 data pull [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Chronologically, the past 24 months have been shaped less by site-specific federal enforcement postings in ECHO and more by California-level oil-and-gas policy movement affecting small Santa Maria Basin operators. Coverage through late 2025 documented a state policy environment in which Governor Gavin Newsom promoted climate leadership abroad while in-state toxic spill incidents and an accelerated drilling permit law drew domestic criticism [source: https://timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/12/29/california-big-oil-environmental-activists/]. For single-facility operators in the 211120 NAICS code, that state-level backdrop is the operative compliance environment between federal enforcement cycles [source: https://timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/12/29/california-big-oil-environmental-activists/]. The May 3, 2026 Los Angeles Times report on the termination of Persian Gulf crude shipments into Long Beach signals a further shift toward increased reliance on in-state production, which historically raises regulatory attention on California upstream and midstream compressor assets [source: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-05-03/californias-last-oil-shipment].

On the enforcement arithmetic itself, ECHO's published derivation — viol_24mo = min(qtrs_with_nc, 8) and penalty_24mo = total_5yr × (24/60) — means the $26,155,942.40 figure reported for Greka Bell Compressor Plant reflects a prorated share of an approximately $65.4 million five-year total penalty base attributed to facility ID 110035846779 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Zero active permits are listed at the exporter query date. Zero top pollutants are populated in the ECHO summary. Those twin absences leave the facility's current operational status in federal air and water program databases genuinely ambiguous from ECHO alone, and resolving that ambiguity would require cross-reference to California Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM) well and facility records and to Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District permit indices — none of which are included in the research bundle here [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Until those state-level records are layered in, the federal ECHO snapshot remains the controlling public dataset. What it shows is a facility carrying a significant historical penalty footprint without a current coded violation stream [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

ECHO reports zero discrete violations for facility ID 110035846779 across the 24-month window ending May 4, 2026, using the exporter's quarters-with-noncompliance methodology [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. No program-specific counts are populated for the Clean Water Act (CWA), Clean Air Act (CAA), or Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) in the summary provided, and the top_pollutants array is empty — no DMR-coded exceedance pollutants surfaced in the 24-month slice [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The penalty total of $26,155,942.40 is a derived figure. It is not a sum of discrete case adjudications within the window. ECHO's own derivation string — penalty_24mo = total_5yr × (24/60) — makes that explicit: the number is a proration of a larger five-year penalty base of approximately $65.39 million, which back-solves to formal enforcement outcomes predating the current 24-month lookback [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. No case docket numbers, consent decree dates, or signed administrative orders appear in the research bundle for this facility. No federal register notices or Department of Justice settlement announcements for Greka Bell Compressor Plant surface in the news or SERP results provided [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Individual action-by-action reconstruction is therefore not supportable from the materials supplied. A full case-level breakdown would require pulling ECHO's Integrated Compliance Information System (ICIS) detail for registry ID 110035846779 and cross-checking against EPA Region 9 enforcement announcements — neither of which are present in the provided research set [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That is a meaningful gap. A $65.4 million five-year penalty base is a material figure for any single upstream facility, and the absence of docket-level documentation in the available bundle means the underlying enforcement history cannot be reconstructed from these materials alone.

Greka Bell Compressor Plant — Santa Maria, California — facility registry ID 110035846779. This is the sole facility in the ECHO dataset attributable to the Greka Bell compressor operation. ECHO's May 4, 2026 exporter snapshot lists zero active permits, zero violations across the 24-month window, an EJ index average of 0.0 (consistent with an unpopulated EJScreen linkage rather than a measured low-exposure reading), and a derived 24-month penalty total of $26,155,942.40 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The facility sits in the Santa Maria Basin in Santa Barbara County, a producing region whose regulatory profile is shaped by California state policy trajectory as described in contemporaneous coverage of the state's oil-and-gas posture [source: https://timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/12/29/california-big-oil-environmental-activists/]. No additional Greka-affiliated facilities appear in the provided ECHO payload, so a top-five peer-internal ranking is not constructible from the supplied data [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The single-facility EJ index value of 0.0 warrants a specific interpretive note. It should not be read as an affirmative clean EJ screen. In ECHO exporter conventions, a 0.0 typically reflects the absence of an EJScreen block in the joined record, not a scored low-exposure outcome [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. A complete EJ review would require a direct EJScreen query for the Santa Maria facility coordinates, which falls outside the bundle provided. The Santa Maria Basin has historically supported oil production in proximity to agricultural communities, making that gap analytically relevant even if it cannot be resolved here. Because only one facility is in scope, the remaining four slots in a standard top-five list are not applicable, and no other registry IDs are offered in the research bundle for Greka [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The ECHO summary for Greka Bell Compressor Plant lists an empty top_pollutants array for the 24-month window [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Absent discharge monitoring report exceedances or Toxics Release Inventory top-pollutant flags in the provided payload, a site-specific top-three pollutant ranking is not supportable. For sector context, crude petroleum extraction and associated compressor operations in California commonly implicate volatile organic compounds (VOCs), hydrogen sulfide (H₂S), and produced-water constituents as the pollutant classes monitored under state and federal programs — but none of these are affirmatively reported for facility 110035846779 in the ECHO summary supplied [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Compressor stations in the Santa Maria Basin are known to vent associated gas during pressure-relief events, making VOC and H₂S monitoring particularly relevant for this asset class, yet the ECHO record is silent on both.

Broader California sector coverage in the past 12 months has focused on oil spill events and drilling expansion rather than on compressor-specific air emissions, and that coverage does not identify Greka Bell Compressor Plant by name [source: https://timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/12/29/california-big-oil-environmental-activists/]. With Persian Gulf imports terminating as of the May 3, 2026 Long Beach shipment, attention to in-state upstream pollutant inventories is likely to increase [source: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-05-03/californias-last-oil-shipment]. That dynamic raises the reputational salience of missing EJ and pollutant fields in ECHO for single-facility California operators. An empty top_pollutants field that might have been unremarkable in a period of abundant import supply becomes a more pointed data gap when in-state production is expected to carry greater load. A complete toxicity profile and exposure-pathway write-up for this facility cannot be produced from the materials provided without supplemental EPA pollutant references, which are not included in the research bundle [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The research bundle supplies an empty NAICS 211120 peer benchmark array, so no top-three peer rows by 24-month penalty total are available for direct tabular comparison [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Within California's crude petroleum extraction sector, peer-set construction would ordinarily draw on ECHO exporter filtering by NAICS 211120 and state=CA, cross-referenced against CalGEM operator rosters — but those cross-references are not present in the materials provided [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Without peer rows, the $26.16 million 24-month derived penalty figure for facility 110035846779 cannot be ranked against comparable single-facility California upstream operators in this briefing. Any such ranking would require a supplemental ECHO query that is outside the supplied bundle [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Greka Bell Compressor Plant's parent operating entity is private and is not represented in the SEC EDGAR filings included in this bundle, so no Item 1A risk factor text is available for direct quotation [source: https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany]. Forward-looking environmental risk for a Santa Maria Basin compressor asset in 2026 is instead framed by two external data points in the provided record. First, the December 29, 2025 Times of San Diego account of California's accelerated drilling permit framework documents continuing in-state spill incidents alongside a state policy posture that is simultaneously expanding upstream access and tightening enforcement expectations [source: https://timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/12/29/california-big-oil-environmental-activists/]. Second, the May 3, 2026 Los Angeles Times report on the end of Persian Gulf crude shipments into Long Beach redirects supply-chain attention toward in-state upstream assets [source: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-05-03/californias-last-oil-shipment]. Both factors raise the probability of heightened state regulatory focus on California compressor and upstream assets in the next 12 to 24 months. Neither implies a specific enforcement trajectory for facility 110035846779 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. What they do imply is that a facility carrying a $65.4 million five-year penalty base, with no active permits currently listed in ECHO and no pollutant or EJ fields populated, sits in a regulatory environment that is moving toward greater scrutiny of exactly this asset class — and that the absence of voluntary disclosure leaves the public record thinner than the underlying penalty history would suggest is warranted.