FracFocus disclosures published between March 21, 2024 and April 12, 2024
Highlights
- 622 new disclosures were reported in 13 states.
- 11.7 billion gallons of water were used, including nearly 45 disclosures each reporting over 30 million gallons. However, 3 disclosures in Oklahoma (one of the well pads pictured above) report over 900 million gallons, a likely error.
- There were more than 2,000 trade secret designations.
- About 3,100 records reported are for chemicals on our list of “Chemicals of Concern.”
- Five fracking jobs in New Mexico from COG Operating LLC hide over 70% of the chemicals reported as Trade Secrets. (Ex: https://www.fracfocus.org/wells/30025491380000).
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This report summarizes the fracking jobs published recently at FracFocus, the industry-sponsored chemical disclosure instrument. It includes the Who, What and Where of recent fracking activity: the operating companies, the chemicals they use (including quantities), and where these jobs are located.
This report is produced by Open-FF, an open source, independent project to make the FracFocus data more usable. This work is sponsored by The FracTracker Alliance.
The nature of the fracking chemical data is complicated and can be difficult to make sense of; Open-FF aims to make it those data more digestible. In addition, FracFocus disclosures are plagued by inconsistencies, ambiguous and missing values and many obvious data errors; Open-FF flags and filters many of those problems. Our hope is that these regular reports (and the broader Open-FF project) will give readers both big-picture perspectives of industry activities as well as enough detail to dig deeply into specifics such as individual chemicals, fracking job, or company.
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