MAGNUM COMPRESSOR STATION

Magnum Compressor Station sits 9.5 miles northeast of Carlsbad in Eddy County, New Mexico — a Clean Air Act-regulated natural gas compressor facility whose compliance profile ranks among the weakest in EPA's ECHO universe. The facility logged eight violation quarters in the trailing 24 months and carries an estimated $12.64 million in apportioned penalties over that window, derived from a $31.6 million five-year total [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip] [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022706384/magnum-compressor-station-carlsbad-nm]. The permit record tells a spare story: zero current permits in the ECHO extract, a last permit date of February 5, 2021, one formal enforcement action on file, and zero inspections logged across the last 1,850 days [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022706384/magnum-compressor-station-carlsbad-nm].

The operator is privately held. No SEC 10-K, 10-Q, or Item 1A disclosure exists under the Magnum Compressor Station name, which makes it impossible to reconcile any operator-stated environmental performance against the measured outcomes in ECHO. PollutionScan assigns the facility a Grade F (33/100), placing it in the lowest compliance tier among Permian Basin midstream sites the platform ranks [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022706384/magnum-compressor-station-carlsbad-nm]. That score does not exist in isolation. The Carlsbad-area compressor cluster has drawn regulatory attention from the New Mexico Environment Department Air Quality Bureau on adjacent assets — most concretely, the Title V permit proceedings on Targa Northern Delaware's Frac Cat Compressor Station in neighboring Lea County, which produced a Hearing Officer Report on February 12, 2024 [source: https://www.env.nm.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/02/2024-02-12-AQB-23-70-Hearing-Officer-Report.pdf]. Within the NAICS 211111 peer set, Magnum's penalty total falls below Greka Bell Compressor Plant ($26.2M) but above Red Bud CTB ($16.1M), positioning it mid-pack by dollar exposure while matching the highest violation-quarter counts in the group [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The ECHO record for Magnum Compressor Station (Facility Registry ID 110022706384) shows a Clean Air Act-active facility with 12 violation quarters over the five-year look-back window, truncated to eight quarters for the 24-month derivation [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip] [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022706384/magnum-compressor-station-carlsbad-nm]. Penalty aggregation of $31,604,866 over five years apportions to approximately $12,641,946 across the trailing 24 months under the 24/60 linear derivation disclosed by the ECHO exporter [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. One formal action sits on the record. Zero evaluations have been logged, and the days-since-last-evaluation counter stands at 1,850 — meaning the most recent on-site inspection predates mid-2020 [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022706384/magnum-compressor-station-carlsbad-nm].

The chronology across the past 24 months is bounded by the data export dated May 4, 2026. Continuous quarterly non-compliance flags under the Clean Air Act program appear across the three-year compliance history display, with no resolved designation posted [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022706384/magnum-compressor-station-carlsbad-nm]. The latest permit action on file carries a date of February 5, 2021. ECHO reports zero active permits as of the May 2026 refresh — a status that, for a CAA major or synthetic-minor source in the Permian ozone nonattainment region, warrants verification against the New Mexico Environment Department Air Quality Bureau permit database [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That verification matters because the NMED AQB was simultaneously conducting contested Title V proceedings on comparable Eddy and Lea County compressor stations during this period. The February 12, 2024 Hearing Officer Report on Targa's Frac Cat Compressor Station set precedent for reopening and revising Title V permits across the region [source: https://www.env.nm.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/02/2024-02-12-AQB-23-70-Hearing-Officer-Report.pdf].

Broader sector enforcement activity provides useful framing. The 2009 Magellan Pipeline consent decree under CWA §§ 311 and 309 — filed in the District of Kansas as No. 09-2425-KHV and covering eleven oil discharges between 1999 and 2006 — is unrelated to Magnum but illustrates the federal enforcement architecture that governs midstream releases [source: https://19january2021snapshot.epa.gov/sites/static/files/2013-09/documents/magellan-cd.pdf] [source: https://ecf.ksd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2009cv2425-5=]. For Magnum specifically, the absence of inspections for more than five years, the persistence of quarterly non-compliance flags, and the magnitude of the penalty apportionment together indicate a facility whose compliance status has been documented through reporting data rather than on-site evaluation across the entire review period [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022706384/magnum-compressor-station-carlsbad-nm].

EPA ECHO reports one formal action of record against Magnum Compressor Station under the Clean Air Act program across the five-year window [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022706384/magnum-compressor-station-carlsbad-nm]. The ECHO exporter aggregates $31,604,866 in total penalties over that period. Under the exporter's documented derivation — penalty_24mo = total_5yr × 24/60 — the 24-month apportioned figure is $12,641,946.40 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The violation-quarter counter reads 12 over three years, capped at 8 for the 24-month variable [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022706384/magnum-compressor-station-carlsbad-nm].

No RCRA or CWA violations are currently tagged against FRS ID 110022706384 in the ECHO extract. All flagged non-compliance sits within the CAA program [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Public PACER and CourtListener surfaces returned by neural search did not produce a docket specific to this facility within the research bundle. The closest sector precedents remain the Magellan Pipeline consent decree (D. Kan. No. 09-2425-KHV) and the Magellan Ammonia Pipeline consent decree filed concurrently [source: https://19january2021snapshot.epa.gov/sites/static/files/2013-09/documents/magellan-cd.pdf] [source: https://ecf.ksd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2009cv2425-5=]. The single formal-action count against Magnum suggests one consolidated settlement or administrative order rather than a sequence of discrete penalty events. Readers seeking the settlement document and penalty allocation detail underlying the $31.6M five-year figure should cross-reference the ECHO Case Detail export directly [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022706384/magnum-compressor-station-carlsbad-nm].

Magnum Compressor Station, Carlsbad, NM (FRS 110022706384): the sole facility associated with the operator in the ECHO universe. Clean Air Act-active, zero active permits posted, last permit action February 5, 2021, one formal enforcement action, $31.6M in cumulative five-year penalties, and a PollutionScan composite grade of F (33/100) [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022706384/magnum-compressor-station-carlsbad-nm] [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Burton Flats Compressor Station, Carlsbad, NM: identified by PollutionScan as a nearby Eddy County facility with its own violation record, relevant for cumulative-impact analysis across the Carlsbad-area compressor corridor [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022706384/magnum-compressor-station-carlsbad-nm].

Targa Northern Delaware Frac Cat Compressor Station, Lea County, NM (permit P288-M2): a Title V permitted natural gas compressor station 24.3 miles southeast of Loving. It was the subject of NMED AQB 23-70 proceedings, with a Hearing Officer Report dated February 12, 2024 supporting revised permit conditions [source: https://www.env.nm.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/02/2024-02-12-AQB-23-70-Hearing-Officer-Report.pdf]. The Frac Cat proceedings serve as a regional benchmark for Title V compressor-station regulation in southeastern New Mexico — and the outcome there signals the regulatory direction Magnum's own permit cycle will face.

Greka Bell Compressor Plant (NAICS 211120): one facility, zero 24-month violation quarters, yet $26,155,942 in apportioned 24-month penalties. That combination points to legacy settlement amortization rather than current quarterly non-compliance [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Red Hills Gas Processing Plant (NAICS 211130): two facilities, eight 24-month violation quarters, $19,133,219 apportioned penalties. A direct size-adjusted peer, Red Hills demonstrates that Magnum's eight-quarter count is the sector modal outcome for high-penalty midstream sites in this NAICS grouping [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

ECHO's top_pollutants array for Magnum Compressor Station is empty in the May 2026 extract. No TRI or NEI pollutant-specific loadings are tagged to FRS 110022706384 in the structured export [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That data gap does not mean the site emits nothing — it means the structured export carries no pollutant-level detail for this facility. For natural gas compressor stations in the Permian Basin, the standard emissions inventory under Clean Air Act Title V and NSPS OOOOa/b covers methane, volatile organic compounds (VOCs including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes), nitrogen oxides from compressor-engine combustion, formaldehyde from lean-burn engines, and hydrogen sulfide where sour gas is processed. The NMED AQB Hearing Officer Report on the neighboring Frac Cat Compressor Station documents the state's pollutant-specific permit conditions protective of human health and welfare, applicable to compressor stations operating up to 8,760 hours per year [source: https://www.env.nm.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/02/2024-02-12-AQB-23-70-Hearing-Officer-Report.pdf].

Exposure pathways for compressor-station emissions are primarily inhalation of fence-line ambient concentrations and secondary ozone formation from NOx and VOC precursors. The Permian Basin is the subject of elevated ozone monitoring by EPA Region 6 and NMED, making the VOC and NOx inventory at any compressor station in this corridor directly relevant to regional air quality accounting. The ECHO EJScreen derivation for this facility registers an EJ index average of 0.0 in the export. That value reflects either a sparsely populated buffer around the 9.5-mile-northeast-of-Carlsbad location or a null-pass in the EJSCREEN join; it should not be read as an affirmative finding of zero community exposure [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip] [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022706384/magnum-compressor-station-carlsbad-nm].

Across the NAICS 211xxx oil-and-gas extraction and midstream peer set ranked by 24-month penalty total, Magnum Compressor Station's $12.64M apportioned figure falls below Greka Bell ($26.16M), Red Hills Gas Processing ($19.13M), and Red Bud CTB ($16.13M), placing it fourth in the peer panel by monetary exposure [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The violation-quarter count tells a different story. Magnum's eight quarters matches Red Hills and Red Bud exactly, and exceeds Greka Bell's zero — indicating that Magnum's penalty base is tied to current quarterly non-compliance rather than legacy amortization. Greka Bell's profile is the inverse: a high penalty total coexisting with no active 24-month non-compliance flags, which points to an older settlement still flowing through the five-year aggregation window [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip] [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022706384/magnum-compressor-station-carlsbad-nm]. All four peers register an EJ index average of 0.0 in the ECHO export, consistent with the sparse-population buffer typical of Permian and comparable basin compressor-station siting.

Magnum Compressor Station is privately held, and no SEC 10-K Item 1A disclosure exists under this facility name. The research bundle returned no CIK-indexed EDGAR filing for the operator. Forward-looking environmental risk must therefore be inferred from state and federal regulatory posture rather than from issuer-authored risk factors. The NMED AQB hearing record on the Frac Cat Compressor Station (Targa Northern Delaware, AQB 23-70) is the clearest signal available. The Air Quality Bureau is actively reopening and revising Title V permits for Eddy and Lea County compressor stations, imposing conditions 'necessary to protect human health and welfare and the environment.' That regulatory vector points directly at Magnum's next permit cycle, given the facility's February 5, 2021 last permit date and zero-active-permit status in the May 2026 ECHO snapshot [source: https://www.env.nm.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/02/2024-02-12-AQB-23-70-Hearing-Officer-Report.pdf] [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The 1,850-day inspection gap compounds that exposure: when NMED or EPA Region 6 does conduct an on-site evaluation, the facility will be measured against permit conditions and NSPS OOOOa/b requirements that have evolved substantially since mid-2020.