Benzene
Benzene releases at Goliad Gas Plant rose from 1k lb to 18k lb (14.8×) between 2023 and 2024.
Total reported releases 47k lb rose sharply year over year (+62%). Total releases concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2022.
2 W AIR BASE RD, Goliad, Texas · 211130 · Natural Gas Processing · operated by Phillips 66 Co
Benzene releases at Goliad Gas Plant rose from 1k lb to 18k lb (14.8×) between 2023 and 2024.
Toluene releases at Goliad Gas Plant rose from 2k lb to 15k lb (10.1×) between 2023 and 2024.
0000050000 releases at Goliad Gas Plant fell from 17k lb to 0 lb (100% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
Benzene concentrations have more than doubled since 2022.
Toluene concentrations have more than doubled since 2022.
n-Hexane concentrations have more than halved since 2022.
Cyclohexane concentrations are up 17% since 2022.
Methanol volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Xylene (mixed isomers) concentrations have more than halved since 2022.
Goliad County County, TX (no Census block groups within 3 miles — falling back to containing county): a population of 7,092. 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.