Methanol
Methanol releases at Oneok Hydrocarbon LP - Bushton Complex rose from 2.1M lb to 3.8M lb between 2023 and 2024.
Total reported releases 3.8M lb more than doubled year over year (+82%). Total releases concentrations are up 21% since 2022.
777 AVE Y, Bushton, Kansas · 211130 · Natural Gas Processing · operated by Oneok INC
Methanol releases at Oneok Hydrocarbon LP - Bushton Complex rose from 2.1M lb to 3.8M lb between 2023 and 2024.
Methanol concentrations are up 21% since 2022.
n-Hexane concentrations have more than doubled since 2022.
Benzene concentrations are up 61% since 2022.
Cyclohexane concentrations have more than doubled since 2022.
Ellsworth County County, KS (no Census block groups within 3 miles — falling back to containing county): a population of 6,374. Why we surface this →
Low-income
People of color
Under age 5
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 (5-year), county-level fallback. Indicator-level percentile and EJ-disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page — they describe wider regional exposure burdens, not effects attributable to a single facility.
Source. EPA Toxics Release Inventory · retrieved 2026-05-07. Reporting year 2024. TRI is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.
What this is not. TRI quantifies releases reported by the facility under EPCRA §313 — not ambient air or water concentrations measured at receptors. We do not attribute individual health outcomes to specific facilities; that exceeds what the data can support.