Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES CAF001307
PLATFORM HIDALGO, Pacific Ocean, CA: NPDES CAF001307 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 29Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
PLATFORM HIDALGO, held by Freeport-McMoRan oil & Gas HIDALGO - CAG280000, holds NPDES permit CAF001307, which discharges to Pacific Ocean. EPA’s file records it issued September 15, 2004 and expiring November 30, 2009. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (October 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.
Identity
| Facility as filed | PLATFORM HIDALGO |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | Freeport-McMoRan oil & Gas HIDALGO - CAG280000 |
| NPDES ID | CAF001307 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Coverage under a general permit |
| Discharger class | Minor discharger |
| Facility type | Not a publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | September 15, 2004 |
| Expiration date | November 30, 2009 |
| Address | Pacific Ocean, CA 93455 |
| Receiving water | Pacific Ocean |
| SIC | 1311 – Crude Petroleum And Natural Gas |
| Other EPA IDs (FRS) | RCRA handler CAR000056341; ICIS-AIR source CASBC0000608308015 |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 29Pollutants on file
- 29Under a numeric limit
- 4With a violation of any kind
- 0With an effluent exceedance
An effluent exceedance is a discharge monitoring report value over the permit’s numeric limit (EPA’s violation code E90). A violation of any kind also counts a report not filed. Each row is EPA’s own count for that pollutant.
| Pollutant or measure | Limits | Violations, any kind | Effluent exceedances | Latest exceedance | Largest exceedance, as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floating solids or visible foam-visual/days | 17 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Flow | 8 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Flow rate, deck drainage | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Sanitary waste, flow | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Free Oil Visual Sheen | 12 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chlorine addition rate | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
| LC50 Static 96Hr Acute Mysid. Bahia | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Oil and grease, hexane extr method | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Well fluids, oil & grease | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Benzene | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Benzo[b]fluoranthene | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Benzo[k]fluoranthene | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chrysene | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Sulfide-hydrogen sulfide [undissociated] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Drilling fluids, volume | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Drill cuttings, free oil | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Drilling cuttings, volume | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Produced water, flow | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Well fluids, volume | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Sanitary waste, residual chlorine | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Number of Events | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Flow rate, domestic | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Oil based fluids, non-aqueous based drilling fluids and cuttings | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Cadmium [Cd], in barite, dry weight | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Mercury [Hg], in barite, dry weight | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Drilling fluids, free oil | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Well fluids, free oil | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Sanitary waste, solids | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Domestic waste, foam and floating solids | 1 | 0 | 0 |
EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES CAF001307.
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES limits and effluent violations files (ECHO download); up to 60 rows shown, most exceedances first.
Inspections, violations and enforcement
- 0Single-event violations
EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES CAF001307.
Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not include the inspections, formal enforcement actions and informal enforcement actions files, so this page shows none of them. EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO lists this permit’s inspections, enforcement actions and penalties.
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES violation, inspection and enforcement files (ECHO download); up to 50 rows of each shown, newest first.
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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.