Benzene
Benzene releases at Driver Gas Plant rose from 4k lb to 104k lb (25.8×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Driver Gas Plant
Total reported releases 375k lb rose by an order of magnitude year over year (+581%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2023.
38003 FM 1379, Midland, Texas · 211130 · Natural Gas Processing · operated by Targa Resources CORP
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Toluene
Toluene releases at Driver Gas Plant rose from 6k lb to 71k lb (12.4×) between 2023 and 2024.
Cyclohexane
Cyclohexane releases at Driver Gas Plant rose from 11k lb to 85k lb (8.1×) between 2023 and 2024.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Benzene
Benzene volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
n-Hexane
n-Hexane concentrations have more than doubled since 2023.
Cyclohexane
Cyclohexane concentrations have more than doubled since 2023.
Toluene
Toluene concentrations have more than doubled since 2023.
Xylene (mixed isomers)
Xylene (mixed isomers) concentrations have more than doubled since 2023.
Ethylbenzene
Ethylbenzene concentrations have more than doubled since 2023.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Midland County County, TX (no Census block groups within 3 miles — falling back to containing county): a population of 169,393. Why we surface this →
10.8%
Low-income
57.6%
People of color
8.5%
Under age 5
10.3%
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.