diff --git a/ci/requirements-2.7_BUILD_TEST.pip b/ci/requirements-2.7_BUILD_TEST.pip
index a0fc77c40bc00..d2aa3a495c62b 100644
--- a/ci/requirements-2.7_BUILD_TEST.pip
+++ b/ci/requirements-2.7_BUILD_TEST.pip
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 xarray
 geopandas
 seaborn
-pandas_gbq
+pandas_gbq==0.3.1
 pandas_datareader
 statsmodels
 scikit-learn