RED BUD CTB

Red Bud CTB is a single-facility crude petroleum extraction operation located approximately 6.25 miles west-southwest of Jal, New Mexico, in Lea County, owned by Matador Production Company. EPA ECHO data attributes eight violation quarters over the trailing 24 months and a derived penalty total of $16,134,727 for the same window [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The facility carries a compliance grade of F (32/100) on third-party aggregator PollutionScan, with 12 violation quarters and $40,336,818 in total penalties over a five-year window, one formal action, and zero inspections recorded; days since last evaluation stood at 2,252 [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070667202/red-bud-ctb-jal-nm].

The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) issued a Notice of Violation naming Red Bud CTB (Agency Interest 38438) alongside four sibling tank batteries — Amen Corner, Firethorn, Nandina, and Pinestraw — for air-quality violations under state and federal regulations [source: https://cloud.env.nm.gov/resources/_translator.php/YjkwM2IzYmIyYmQ5ODUxNDNhMWZjNDQ4M18xOTgyMzg~.pdf]. Red Bud CTB is privately held. No CIK or 10-K is on file, and no sustainability report was located in the research set. The company's latest permit on record dates to 2019-12-31, and active permit count is zero [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That permit gap — more than six years without an active federal permit — runs alongside the unbroken string of violation quarters in the ECHO record. Peer facilities in NAICS 211120/211130 — Greka Bell Compressor Plant, Red Hills Gas Processing Plant, and Amen Corner CTB — show comparable penalty totals in the $16M–$26M range over 24 months [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Red Bud CTB operates as a central tank battery under Clean Air Act program jurisdiction, with EPA ECHO identifying a single facility ID (110070667202) in Jal, NM. ECHO's 24-month window indicates eight quarters flagged with non-compliance and a derived penalty figure of $16,134,727.20, calculated as 24/60 of the five-year total [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The facility has no active permits recorded, and the most recent permit date in the federal exporter file is 2019-12-31 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. PollutionScan's aggregation of ECHO data places the facility's five-year penalty at $40,336,818, with one formal action and zero EPA-recorded inspections [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070667202/red-bud-ctb-jal-nm].

State-level enforcement drives the chronological narrative across the trailing 24 months. NMED's Notice of Violation covering Red Bud CTB and four additional Matador Production Company central tank batteries in Lea County documents air-quality violations of state and federal regulations [source: https://cloud.env.nm.gov/resources/_translator.php/YjkwM2IzYmIyYmQ5ODUxNDNhMWZjNDQ4M18xOTgyMzg~.pdf]. The NMED action places Red Bud CTB within a grouped enforcement matter involving Agency Interest numbers 38438 (Red Bud), 38439 (Amen Corner), 38441 (Firethorn), 38838 (Nandina), and 38863 (Pinestraw). That grouping signals that regulators treat these five sites as a connected inventory of emission sources rather than isolated cases. ECHO's quarter-by-quarter non-compliance flags for Red Bud CTB span the entire 12-quarter look-back presented on PollutionScan, with every displayed quarter marked as violation, SNC, or unresolved status [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070667202/red-bud-ctb-jal-nm].

Parallel NMED enforcement against other Permian operators fills in the broader regulatory picture. The Administrative Compliance Order against Ameredev II, LLC under the New Mexico Air Quality Control Act (NMSA Sections 74-2-1 through -17) illustrates the enforcement framework currently applied to Lea County tank-battery operators, including civil penalty assessments for violations of Title 20, Part 2 NMAC air-quality provisions [source: https://service.web.env.nm.gov/urls/jIxPBwrO]. For Red Bud CTB specifically, the gap between ECHO's zero-inspection count and the eight violation quarters reflects reliance on self-reported or state-referred compliance data rather than federal on-site evaluation. The last evaluation was logged 2,252 days prior to the PollutionScan snapshot [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070667202/red-bud-ctb-jal-nm]. No federal consent decree, CourtListener docket, or PACER filing surfaced in the research bundle for this facility.

Federal record (EPA ECHO, facility ID 110070667202): eight violation quarters within the trailing 24 months under Clean Air Act program classification; derived monetary penalty of $16,134,727.20 over the same 24-month period, calculated from a $40,336,818 five-year penalty total scaled by 24/60 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. One formal federal action is recorded. Inspections tally at zero, and the five-year compliance history shows continuous violation or unresolved status across all 12 displayed quarters [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070667202/red-bud-ctb-jal-nm].

State record (NMED): a Notice of Violation issued to Matador Production Company identifies air-quality violations at Red Bud CTB (AI 38438) along with Amen Corner CTB (AI 38439), Firethorn CTB (AI 38441), Nandina CTB (AI 38838), and Pinestraw CTB (AI 38863). NMED cites violations of state and federal air-quality regulations. The NOV text available through the translator link does not enumerate a final monetary resolution in the excerpt on record [source: https://cloud.env.nm.gov/resources/_translator.php/YjkwM2IzYmIyYmQ5ODUxNDNhMWZjNDQ4M18xOTgyMzg~.pdf]. No consent decree, settlement agreement, or court docket for Red Bud CTB appears in CourtListener, PACER, or the EPA Environmental Appeals Board records returned in the research set. The absence of a federal on-site inspection over the full 2,252-day gap means the violation record rests entirely on state referrals and self-reported data.

Program classification: Clean Air Act (active). No RCRA or CWA enforcement entries surfaced. The facility holds zero active permits as of the ECHO exporter as-of date of 2026-05-04, with the latest permit date recorded as 2019-12-31 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Red Bud CTB (Jal, NM — AI 38438): the sole facility attributed to this operator in the research bundle. ECHO records eight violation quarters in the trailing 24 months and an allocated $16.13M penalty share over that window. PollutionScan scores the site F (32/100), lists zero inspections, and notes 2,252 days since last evaluation [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070667202/red-bud-ctb-jal-nm]. The facility is named in NMED's multi-site NOV to Matador Production Company covering air-quality violations [source: https://cloud.env.nm.gov/resources/_translator.php/YjkwM2IzYmIyYmQ5ODUxNDNhMWZjNDQ4M18xOTgyMzg~.pdf]. ECHO reports an EJ index average of 0.0, which reflects missing or non-populated demographic layer data in the exporter record rather than a confirmed absence of environmental-justice exposure [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The four sibling facilities flagged in the same NMED NOV — Amen Corner CTB (AI 38439), Firethorn CTB (AI 38441), Nandina CTB (AI 38838), and Pinestraw CTB (AI 38863) — are cited jointly for air-quality violations under the Matador Production Company ownership umbrella, though each holds a distinct facility identifier [source: https://cloud.env.nm.gov/resources/_translator.php/YjkwM2IzYmIyYmQ5ODUxNDNhMWZjNDQ4M18xOTgyMzg~.pdf]. Amen Corner CTB's ECHO record shows the identical 24-month violation-quarter count (8) and derived penalty ($16,134,727.20) as Red Bud CTB, consistent with grouped enforcement treatment [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That symmetry in penalty allocation across sibling sites is a product of the 24/60 scaling methodology applied uniformly to each facility's five-year total. The research bundle returns only one ECHO facility ID tied to the red-bud-ctb slug; additional per-facility paragraphs cannot be substantiated from the source set provided.

ECHO's top_pollutants field is empty for Red Bud CTB, meaning no specific TRI- or AFS-tagged chemicals are attached to the facility record in the exporter snapshot [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The facility's Clean Air Act classification and its central-tank-battery function in crude-oil extraction (NAICS 211120) typically implicate volatile organic compound (VOC) and hydrogen sulfide emissions from storage-tank venting, flare combustion byproducts, and fugitive methane. The research set does not contain emission-inventory figures specific to this site, so quantitative pollutant context for Red Bud CTB remains uncharacterized in the available data.

The NMED NOV framing for the grouped Matador tank batteries addresses violations of Title 20, Part 2 NMAC air-quality regulations — the state regulatory surface that governs VOC and criteria-pollutant emissions from oil and gas production equipment [source: https://cloud.env.nm.gov/resources/_translator.php/YjkwM2IzYmIyYmQ5ODUxNDNhMWZjNDQ4M18xOTgyMzg~.pdf]. Parallel NMED enforcement against Ameredev II under the same statutory framework (NMSA 74-2-1 through -17) further situates the Red Bud CTB violations within Lea County's concentrated Permian Basin air-quality compliance docket [source: https://service.web.env.nm.gov/urls/jIxPBwrO]. Both enforcement actions draw on the same Title 20 provisions, reinforcing that the regulatory surface applied to Red Bud CTB is the standard instrument for Permian tank-battery operators in the state.

Environmental-justice exposure for the Red Bud CTB location reports an ECHO EJ index average of 0.0, which in the exporter schema indicates missing demographic overlay rather than confirmed low exposure [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Lea County, NM hosts dense upstream oil and gas infrastructure, and cumulative-exposure analyses of the Permian region have been raised in civil-rights complaints to EPA in adjacent jurisdictions [source: https://cabq.gov/airquality/documents/2014-9-15-swop-civil-rights-complaint-to-epa.pdf]. No pollutant-specific monitoring data for Red Bud CTB surfaces in the research bundle.

Within the NAICS 211120/211130 peer set returned by ECHO, Red Bud CTB's 24-month derived penalty of $16.13M sits at the lower end of the $16M–$26M peer band. It ties with Amen Corner CTB — a sibling Matador tank battery named in the same NMED NOV — and trails Red Hills Gas Processing Plant ($19.13M, 8 violation quarters) and Greka Bell Compressor Plant ($26.16M, though 0 violation quarters, indicating legacy penalty allocation rather than current non-compliance). Red Bud CTB's eight violation quarters match the Red Hills and Amen Corner counts exactly, placing the facility in the upper tier of peer-set non-compliance frequency. The Amen Corner tie is particularly notable: two facilities under the same ownership, subject to the same grouped NOV, producing identical ECHO penalty allocations — a direct result of the 24/60 scaling applied uniformly across the Matador tank-battery inventory [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Red Bud CTB's operator is privately held, with no CIK and no 10-K or 10-Q on file in the research bundle; Item 1A forward-looking environmental risk disclosure is therefore unavailable from SEC EDGAR for this entity. Forward-looking regulatory exposure can be inferred from two directions. First, the active NMED NOV covering Red Bud CTB and four sibling tank batteries under the New Mexico Air Quality Control Act authorizes civil-penalty assessment and compliance-order issuance for continued air-quality violations [source: https://cloud.env.nm.gov/resources/_translator.php/YjkwM2IzYmIyYmQ5ODUxNDNhMWZjNDQ4M18xOTgyMzg~.pdf]. Second, parallel NMED administrative-compliance-order practice against Permian operators under the same statutory sections — NMSA 74-2-1 through -17 — demonstrates that the state has moved from NOV to formal order in comparable cases [source: https://service.web.env.nm.gov/urls/jIxPBwrO]. The zero active-permit status as of 2026-05-04, combined with the last permit date of 2019-12-31, adds a distinct permitting-gap dimension to that forward exposure.