NEWFIELD - MCKINNON 14-22-3-3 WELL PAD

Newfield McKinnon 14-22-3-3 Well Pad is a single oil and gas production site operated within the Monument Butte field in the Uinta Basin, Utah, associated with the historical operations of Newfield Production Company (formerly Newfield Exploration Company, NYSE: NFX prior to its 2019 acquisition by Encana/Ovintiv). EPA ECHO data as of May 4, 2026 records the facility under EPA Registry ID 110070248426, with zero formal violations logged in the trailing 24-month window and zero active permits reported through the ECHO exporter, against a derived 24-month penalty allocation of $2.2 million drawn from five-year totals [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That allocation is a mathematical ratio — 24 months divided by 60 — applied to a historical aggregate, not a new adjudication. The ECHO environmental justice index average is reported as 0.0, which reflects data absence rather than an affirmative finding of zero exposure, given the facility's location on or adjacent to federal and Indian mineral leases in Duchesne and Uintah counties [source: https://oilgas.ogm.utah.gov/wellfiles/013/4301350272.pdf].

The parent operator carries a documented federal enforcement history predating the 24-month window. On April 15, 2016, EPA Region 8 announced a settlement with Newfield Production resolving alleged Clean Water Act wetlands violations at production sites in Uintah and Duchesne counties — the same two counties where the McKinnon pad sits [source: https://www.epa.gov/archive/epa/newsreleases/newfield-production-agrees-resolve-alleged-wetlands-violations-production-sites-uintah.html]. That geographic overlap makes the 2016 consent agreement the single most material item in the operator's legacy compliance file. Because the operating entity is now private — no active CIK, no 10-K or 10-Q filings in the research bundle — forward-looking disclosure is limited to legacy filings and state permit records filed with the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining [source: https://oilgas.ogm.utah.gov/wellfiles/013/4301332915.pdf]. Readers should treat the $2.2 million derived penalty figure as an allocation of historical five-year totals, not a new adjudication.

The compliance profile for the McKinnon 14-22-3-3 Well Pad sits within a broader operational footprint in the Monument Butte field, an established tight-oil play in Utah's Uinta Basin. ECHO identifies one facility under Registry ID 110070248426 with no quarters of significant non-compliance logged in the 24-month window ending Q1 2026, and the penalty total of $2,200,000 is a pro-rata derivation — 24/60 of a five-year aggregate — rather than a discrete recent fine [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. ECHO reports zero active NPDES, CAA Title V, or RCRA permits tied to this specific well-pad Registry ID. Upstream well-pad operations in Utah are typically permitted under state-delegated programs administered by the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining (UDOGM) and the Utah Division of Air Quality, with federal Clean Water Act jurisdiction triggered episodically for wetlands and stormwater matters [source: https://oilgas.ogm.utah.gov/wellfiles/013/4301334260.pdf].

The relevant 24-month record — May 2024 through May 2026 — contains no new federal enforcement announcements against this specific well pad in the research bundle. In March and April 2025, UDOGM processed amended and active Applications for Permit to Drill (APDs) within the Monument Butte field associated with the Newfield operator-of-record, confirming ongoing drilling activity on adjacent lease blocks [source: https://oilgas.ogm.utah.gov/wellfiles/013/4301350272.pdf]. Then, on April 1, 2026, the BLM Vernal Field Office authorized the P1 Well Pad and three oil wells for a different operator — Scout Energy Management — in the same Greater Monument Buttes Unit of Duchesne County, signaling continued federal permitting throughput in the immediate area [source: https://blm.gov/announcement/blm-authorizes-p1-well-pad-drilling-permits-and-infrastructure-duchesne-county]. That authorization is relevant context: it establishes cumulative surface disturbance in the basin even when the McKinnon pad itself is quiet at the federal level.

The most material historical enforcement event predates the 24-month window by nearly a decade. On April 15, 2016, EPA Region 8 announced that Newfield Production Company agreed to resolve alleged wetlands violations under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act at production sites in Uintah and Duchesne counties [source: https://www.epa.gov/archive/epa/newsreleases/newfield-production-agrees-resolve-alleged-wetlands-violations-production-sites-uintah.html]. The resolution was administrative rather than judicial. Separately, a Pennsylvania affiliate, Newfield Appalachia PA LLC, filed a federal declaratory-judgment complaint against Damascus Township in the Middle District of Pennsylvania concerning local administrative action on gas exploration — a jurisdictional land-use dispute, not a federal environmental violation [source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.pamd.81382.1.0.pdf]. Taken together, the 24-month record for the McKinnon 14-22-3-3 pad itself is quiet at the federal level, while the parent operator's legacy file documents historical CWA exposure in the same geographic basin.

No discrete federal enforcement action against the McKinnon 14-22-3-3 Well Pad (EPA Registry ID 110070248426) appears in the 24-month ECHO window. The reported $2,200,000 figure is a derivation equal to 24/60 of the facility's five-year aggregate penalty total [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Working backward, the underlying five-year total is approximately $5.5 million on a linear pro-rata basis, but ECHO's derivation note explicitly flags this as an allocation method rather than a timestamped penalty [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The distinction matters for any reader treating the figure as a recent adjudication.

The historical anchor point is April 15, 2016. That day, EPA Region 8 announced a consent agreement in which Newfield Production Company agreed to resolve alleged Clean Water Act wetlands violations at production sites in Uintah and Duchesne counties, Utah. The program of record was CWA Section 404 — dredge and fill in waters of the United States — and the resolution was administrative rather than judicial [source: https://www.epa.gov/archive/epa/newsreleases/newfield-production-agrees-resolve-alleged-wetlands-violations-production-sites-uintah.html]. No penalty dollar amount for that 2016 settlement appears in the research bundle; the ECHO-derived $2.2 million allocation may or may not incorporate it. In Pennsylvania, a related Newfield entity — Newfield Appalachia PA LLC — pursued civil litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against Damascus Township's administrative actions. That matter is a land-use preemption dispute, not a pollution enforcement action [source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.pamd.81382.1.0.pdf]. ECHO records for the McKinnon pad show no RCRA hazardous-waste generator status, no CAA Title V stationary-source violations, and no NPDES effluent exceedances logged in the current window [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

McKinnon 14-22-3-3 Well Pad (Duchesne County, Utah) — EPA Registry ID 110070248426, operator-of-record historically Newfield Production Company, sited in the Monument Butte field of the Uinta Basin. ECHO reports zero violations and zero active federal permits in the 24-month window, with a derived penalty allocation of $2.2 million [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The pad is one of hundreds of well pads developed in the Monument Butte unit. Adjacent APDs filed with UDOGM in 2025 confirm continuing drilling activity in the same section-range grid [source: https://oilgas.ogm.utah.gov/wellfiles/013/4301350272.pdf].

Ute Tribal 14-20-4-1 (Duchesne County, Utah) — An adjacent Newfield-operated well whose APD, logged with UDOGM under mineral lease 2OG0005609, sits on federal and Indian mineral acreage with surface ownership identified as Henderson Ranches LLC [source: https://oilgas.ogm.utah.gov/wellfiles/013/4301350272.pdf]. The Indian-lease status elevates tribal consultation obligations under BLM and BIA processes. That obligation is a material environmental-justice data point entirely absent from ECHO's EJ index of 0.0.

Monument Butte APDs 1-9-9-16, 5-9-9-16, 7-9-9-16, 8-9-9-16 (Uintah County, Utah) — Four additional Newfield-filed APDs in the same field, documented in UDOGM well files dating from the operator's active development phase, including one exception-location filing [source: https://oilgas.ogm.utah.gov/wellfiles/013/4301332915.pdf]. These four APDs document the density of Newfield surface disturbance in the basin that formed the factual predicate for the 2016 CWA wetlands settlement.

Additional Monument Butte pad under amended APD (Uintah/Duchesne Counties, Utah) — A UDOGM Form 3 amended APD in the same field on fee surface and fee minerals, filed by the Newfield operator-of-record, illustrates the mixed federal, state, and fee jurisdictional patchwork that characterizes enforcement allocation across the basin [source: https://oilgas.ogm.utah.gov/wellfiles/013/4301334260.pdf]. That patchwork is why a single ECHO Registry ID captures only a fraction of the operator's total regulatory exposure.

Greater Monument Buttes Unit — P1 Well Pad (Duchesne County, Utah) — Although operated by Scout Energy Management rather than Newfield, the BLM Vernal Field Office's April 1, 2026 authorization of the P1 Well Pad and three oil wells in the same unit establishes the continuing federal permitting context and cumulative-impact environment surrounding the McKinnon pad [source: https://blm.gov/announcement/blm-authorizes-p1-well-pad-drilling-permits-and-infrastructure-duchesne-county].

ECHO's top_pollutants field for Registry ID 110070248426 is empty in the current export, meaning no TRI, DMR, or eGRID-linked release quantities are tied to this specific Registry ID in the bundle [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That data gap does not mean the pad emits nothing — it means facility-specific release data has not been linked to this Registry ID in the export. Three pollutant categories are material to upstream oil and gas well pads in the Uinta Basin, based on EPA's general sector profile.

First: volatile organic compounds and methane from pneumatic controllers, storage tanks, and produced-water handling. These contribute to regional ozone formation in the Uinta Basin airshed — a basin already designated as a serious ozone non-attainment area — and are regulated under NSPS Subparts OOOO, OOOOa, and OOOOb. Second: produced water and associated hydrocarbons and chlorides, which reach surface waters via spills and are regulated under CWA Section 311 and state UPDES permits. The April 15, 2016 EPA Region 8 settlement against Newfield Production specifically cited wetlands impacts in Uintah and Duchesne counties, confirming that this pathway has been historically material at the operator level [source: https://www.epa.gov/archive/epa/newsreleases/newfield-production-agrees-resolve-alleged-wetlands-violations-production-sites-uintah.html]. Third: hydrogen sulfide and BTEX compounds — benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes — that can migrate from wellheads and separators, with benzene classified as a known human carcinogen.

Environmental-justice implications in Duchesne and Uintah counties are elevated by proximity to Ute Indian Tribe trust lands. The McKinnon pad area sits within a checkerboard of federal, Indian, state, and fee mineral leases, a fact documented in adjacent APDs on Indian mineral estate [source: https://oilgas.ogm.utah.gov/wellfiles/013/4301350272.pdf]. ECHO's 0.0 EJ index should therefore be read as a data gap rather than an affirmative low-exposure finding.

The NAICS 213111 (Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations / Drilling Oil and Gas Wells) peer benchmark returned no ranked peer rows in the research bundle, so quantitative percentile placement of the McKinnon 14-22-3-3 Well Pad against sector peers is not computable from the supplied data [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Qualitatively, the facility's zero-violation 24-month ECHO record sits alongside — not necessarily below — the regional enforcement activity associated with Uinta Basin ozone non-attainment and the BLM permitting throughput documented in the April 1, 2026 Scout Energy P1 Well Pad authorization [source: https://blm.gov/announcement/blm-authorizes-p1-well-pad-drilling-permits-and-infrastructure-duchesne-county]. Until peer rows are available, no percentile ranking is supportable.

No current 10-K or 10-Q is available for the operating entity behind the McKinnon 14-22-3-3 Well Pad. The SEC filing bundle is empty, and the legacy Newfield Exploration Company 10-K dated February 21, 2017 is the most recent SEC-filed risk-factor document in the research record — pre-dating the 2019 acquisition that took the operator private [source: https://getfilings.com/sec-filings/170221/NEWFIELD-EXPLORATION-CO-DE-_10-K/]. Forward-looking environmental risk for the pad must therefore be inferred from sector-standard upstream exposures. Four categories are relevant: wetlands permitting under CWA Section 404, given the 2016 consent agreement's geographic overlap with the McKinnon pad's county; Uinta Basin ozone attainment obligations tied to VOC and methane emissions from pneumatic controllers and storage tanks; methane rules under NSPS OOOOb and OOOOc, which impose increasingly stringent monitoring and repair requirements on existing well sites; and tribal-lease consultation obligations under BLM and BIA processes, which apply to adjacent acreage on Indian mineral estate. None of these exposures can be quantified from the current record, but each is grounded in documented regulatory programs rather than speculative sector trends.