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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GMG290215

PETRO VENTURES, INC., Lafayette, LA: NPDES GMG290215 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

PETRO VENTURES, INC. holds NPDES permit GMG290215. EPA’s file records it issued September 28, 2012 and expiring September 30, 2017. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedPETRO VENTURES, INC.
Permittee as filedPETRO VENTURES, INC.
NPDES IDGMG290215
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 28, 2012
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2017
AddressLafayette, LA 70508
SubwatershedAnselm Coulee-Vermilion River (HUC 080801030109)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Whole effluent toxicity602400
Pass/Fail Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)441760
Pass/Fail Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Menidia441760
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (Mysidopsis bahia)441760
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia441760
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)441760
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia441760
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)441760
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia441760
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)441760
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia441760
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (Mysidopsis bahia)441760
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia441760
Critical Dilution301200
Misc. free oil in Western GOM, OCS24960
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)22880
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Menidia menidia22880
Discharge drill cuttings, base fluids retained18720
Well fluids, oil & grease16640
Produced water, oil and grease16640
LF Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopis bahia)16640
Low Flow Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Menidia menidia16640
NOAEC Lethal Static Renewal 48HR Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)16640
NOAEC Lethal Static Renewal 48HR Acute Menidia menidia16640
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)16640
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Menidia menidia16640
Drilling fluid, toxicity12480
Discharge drill cuttings, sediment toxicity12480
Discharge drill cuttings, formation oil12480
Flow8320
Produced water, free oil8320
Deck drainage, free oil8320
Produced water, flow8320
Well fluids, free oil8320
Sanitary waste, residual chlorine8320
Sanitary waste, solids8320
Domestic waste, foam and floating solids8320
Maintenance Waste: Do you have a BMP?8320
Maintenance Waste: Are you using a BMP?8320
Drilling fluid, end of well, 96-hr LC506240
Stock base fluid, PAH6240
Stock base fluid, sediment toxicity6240
Stock base fluid, biodegredation rate6240
Cadmium [Cd], in barite, dry weight6240
Mercury [Hg], in barite, dry weight6240
Drilling fluids, free oil6240
Drilling fluids, discharge rate6240
Drill cuttings, free oil6240

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES GMG290215.

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES GMG290215.

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 September 14, 2026.