HP GAS PAD

HP GAS PAD is a single-pad crude petroleum extraction site operating under NAICS 211120, positioned 5.3 miles southwest of Jal, New Mexico, in Lea County [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070666591/hp-gas-pad-jal-nm]. Eight quarters of noncompliance appear in the trailing 24 months of EPA ECHO data, accessed via the agency's bulk exporter as of May 4, 2026. The same export yields an imputed penalty total of $16,134,727 under the Clean Air Act program — a pro-rata share of the facility's $40,336,818 five-year penalty figure, derived by multiplying across 24 of 60 months [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Third-party scoring of that ECHO feed assigns the facility a compliance grade of F, with a score of 32 out of 100, one formal enforcement action on file, and zero EPA evaluations recorded across the 2,252 days preceding the query date [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070666591/hp-gas-pad-jal-nm].

The operating entity is not a public SEC registrant. No 10-K, 10-Q, or Item 1A forward-looking environmental risk disclosure was identified in the research bundle. Sustainability disclosures publicly traceable to a same-initials drilling operator — Helmerich & Payne, commonly abbreviated H&P — reference West Texas rig activity and fleet-wide emissions metrics but do not name HP GAS PAD specifically [source: https://www.hpinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/HP-Sustainability-Report-2024.pdf]. Attribution of this pad to any specific publicly traded parent should be treated as unconfirmed until an operator lookup is completed in New Mexico Oil Conservation Division records. The EJSCREEN index average for the surrounding block group registers as 0.0 in the ECHO export, a value consistent with the sparse residential density of a Permian Basin tract rather than with any finding of zero pollutant exposure [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The compliance footprint at HP GAS PAD is narrow in program coverage but deep in duration. EPA ECHO classifies the site as active under the Clean Air Act with no Clean Water Act, RCRA hazardous waste, or SDWA program registrations attached to FRS ID 110070666591 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Third-party aggregation of the same ECHO feed reports 12 violation quarters across the most recent three-year window, one formal enforcement action, zero inspections, and 2,252 days since the last on-site evaluation as of the query date [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070666591/hp-gas-pad-jal-nm].

A chronological reconstruction of the past 24 months, bounded by the ECHO export as-of date of May 4, 2026, shows persistent quarterly noncompliance flags under the CAA program without a single intervening inspection event. The last permit date of record in the ECHO export is December 31, 2019, and no active permits are listed for the facility as of the snapshot [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The single formal action recorded by the aggregator pre-dates the 24-month window by an undisclosed interval. The compliance history grid shows continuous violation or significant-noncompliance coding across every displayed quarter, with no return-to-compliance stamp visible in the public export [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070666591/hp-gas-pad-jal-nm]. No consent decree, administrative order, or supplemental environmental project naming HP GAS PAD directly was surfaced in the Department of Justice ENRD consent-decree library during the research window. A separate 2019 complaint filed by the United States and the State of Colorado against HighPoint Operating Corporation — a distinct entity — appears in the DOJ record set and is not attributable to this New Mexico pad [source: https://www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decree/file/1156036/dl].

The $16.1 million 24-month penalty figure is a derivation, not a stated assessment. ECHO's exporter methodology prorates the five-year PENALTY_AMOUNT field — total $40,336,818 for this facility — across 60 months and multiplies by 24. The actual cash amount paid or owed in the 2024–2026 window may differ materially from that prorated estimate [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. PSE Healthy Energy research on New Mexico's largest emission sources identifies Lea County oil and gas infrastructure, including the Permian fairway where HP GAS PAD sits, as contributing disproportionately to state-level methane, volatile organic compound, and hazardous air pollutant inventories, though the PSE dataset does not list HP GAS PAD by FRS ID [source: https://www.psehealthyenergy.org/work/impacts-of-new-mexicos-largest-emission-sources/]. The long evaluation gap combined with sustained significant-noncompliance flags points to a self-reported or modeled noncompliance pattern rather than an inspection-driven one.

Enforcement detail for HP GAS PAD is thin at the action level and concentrated at the program level. ECHO records one formal action under the Clean Air Act tied to FRS ID 110070666591 [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070666591/hp-gas-pad-jal-nm]. The aggregator does not publish the docket number, issuance date, statutory citation, or respondent name for that action. The DOJ ENRD consent-decree index returned no direct match for the HP GAS PAD facility name or FRS ID during the research window [source: https://www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decree/file/1156036/dl]. The $16,134,727 24-month penalty figure carried in the ECHO summary is a prorated derivation from a five-year PENALTY_AMOUNT of $40,336,818 and should not be read as a single adjudicated fine [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. No Clean Water Act NPDES action, RCRA corrective action, SDWA UIC enforcement, or TSCA penalty was identified for this FRS ID in the research bundle [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

One name-collision risk warrants explicit flagging. A Superfund record titled HP GAS PRODUCTS, carrying EPA ID TXN000606680, appears in the EPA CERCLIS database. It is a Texas site, entirely separate from the New Mexico pad at issue here, and the two records should not be conflated [source: https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/CurSites/cadminrecord.cfm?colid=65747&doc=Y&id=0606680]. On the facility's eight flagged noncompliance quarters within the 24-month window, ECHO's compliance-history grid marks each as a violation or significant noncompliance under the CAA. No associated resolution date or return-to-compliance stamp is visible in the public export [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070666591/hp-gas-pad-jal-nm].

HP GAS PAD (Jal, NM, FRS 110070666591) is the only facility in the subject profile. The site sits 5.3 miles southwest of Jal in Lea County, New Mexico, within the Delaware Basin sub-play of the broader Permian. ECHO lists the facility as CAA-active with zero inspections on record and a compliance grade of F from third-party scoring [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070666591/hp-gas-pad-jal-nm]. The EJ index average in the ECHO export is 0.0, reflecting the low residential density of the surrounding census block group rather than a finding of no exposure [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

RED HILLS GAS PROCESSING PLANT, also in Jal, appears as a nearby facility with violations in the same third-party dataset and as a same-NAICS peer in the ECHO benchmark, carrying eight 24-month violation quarters and a $19,133,219 prorated penalty figure [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070666591/hp-gas-pad-jal-nm].

AMEN CORNER CTB (NAICS 211120) is flagged in the ECHO peer table with the identical eight-quarter violation count and identical $16,134,727 prorated penalty total as HP GAS PAD. That numerical coincidence warrants verification against the underlying ICIS-AIR record to confirm the two facilities are not double-counted under a common operator [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

GREKA BELL COMPRESSOR PLANT leads the NAICS 211120 peer table on prorated penalty total at $26,155,942 despite zero 24-month violation quarters — a pattern consistent with a legacy five-year penalty distributed across the proration window rather than with active current-period noncompliance [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

HP GAS PRODUCTS (EPA ID TXN000606680) is a separate Superfund site located in Texas and is not part of this profile. It is listed here solely to flag name-collision risk for readers searching EPA databases [source: https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/CurSites/cadminrecord.cfm?colid=65747&doc=Y&id=0606680].

The ECHO export returns an empty top_pollutants array for HP GAS PAD, meaning no TRI or NEI-reported chemical is attached to this FRS ID in the current snapshot [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That data gap does not mean the pad emits nothing. Pollutant context must instead be drawn from NAICS- and basin-level research.

PSE Healthy Energy's 2023 analysis of New Mexico's largest emission sources identifies methane (CH4), volatile organic compounds — including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes — and nitrogen oxides (NOx) as the dominant air contaminants associated with Permian Basin upstream oil and gas pads of the type represented by HP GAS PAD [source: https://www.psehealthyenergy.org/work/impacts-of-new-mexicos-largest-emission-sources/]. Methane is a short-lived climate forcer with a 20-year global warming potential an order of magnitude above CO2. VOCs are ozone precursors with documented respiratory effects; benzene specifically carries documented hematologic toxicity. NOx contributes to secondary PM2.5 and ground-level ozone formation [source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4354671]. The peer-reviewed SSRN companion paper quantifies disproportionate exposure for communities within one kilometer of large New Mexico oil and gas sources, with pathway analysis covering inhalation of fugitive emissions, flaring-derived combustion products, and in some settings groundwater impacts from produced-water handling [source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4354671]. Lea County sits within the study's high-exposure tier.

Within the NAICS 211120 (Crude Petroleum Extraction) peer set pulled from the ECHO export, HP GAS PAD ranks third by prorated 24-month penalty total at $16,134,727 and is tied for the highest violation-quarter count at eight, matching AMEN CORNER CTB exactly on both metrics and matching RED HILLS GAS PROCESSING PLANT — a NAICS 211130 near-neighbor in Jal — on violation quarters [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. GREKA BELL COMPRESSOR PLANT leads on penalty total despite zero current-window violation quarters, indicating its penalty load derives from adjudicated prior-period actions being amortized across the proration formula rather than from active noncompliance. HP GAS PAD's signature in the peer table is the combination of maximum violation-quarter saturation — eight of eight quarters flagged — no inspections on record, and a grade-F third-party rating [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070666591/hp-gas-pad-jal-nm].

No SEC 10-K Item 1A or Item 7 MD&A text is available for the operator of HP GAS PAD in the research bundle. The subject is listed as private with CIK N/A, and no EDGAR filings were returned [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Forward-looking environmental risk language from Helmerich & Payne's sustainability disclosures references climate strategy and environmental management at the enterprise level but does not constitute an Item 1A disclosure for the HP GAS PAD facility and cannot be cited as such [source: https://www.hpinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/HP-Sustainability-Report-2024.pdf].