Highlights
- 1213 new disclosures were reported in 15 states.
- 22.5 billion gallons of water were used, including nearly 150 disclosures each reporting over 30 million gallons. Three EQT disclosures on one Greene county, PA, pad report more than 60 million gallons each (image above).
- There were more than 4,800 trade secret designations.
- Sixty-four hundred records reported are for chemicals on our list of “Chemicals of Concern.” Four wells on one Wrinkler county, TX, pad each report over 1,000,000 pounds of hydrochloric acid used (ex: https://www.fracfocus.org/wells/42495348880000).
- Three fracking jobs in Dimmit county, TX, from Atlas Operating LLC., hide over 85% of the chemicals reported as Trade Secrets. Only water is identified. (Ex: https://www.fracfocus.org/wells/42127386410000).
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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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