FracFocus disclosures published between July 19, 2024 and August 17, 2024
Highlights
- Companies published FracFocus disclosures representing 1,599 fracking jobs in 16 states. About two-thirds of them were in Texas.
- Companies reported using more than 28 billion gallons of water, including over 80 disclosures each reporting over 30 million gallons. TRP Operating LLC, reported using 266 million gallons in one job.
- Companies used more than 5,700 trade secret designations.
- Over 9,000 records reported chemicals on our list of “Chemicals of Concern.” These include individual records of
- almost 600,000 pounds of acrylamide,
- over 1.8 million pounds of glutaraldehyde, and
- over 1.5 million pounds of hydrochloric acid.
- Thirty-nine new chemicals were added this month. Several are PFAS chemicals, used in small amounts as tracers.
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This report of new chemical disclosures for August 2024 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.
Open-FF produced this report. Open-FF is an open source, independent project to make the FracFocus data more usable. The FracTracker Alliance sponsors this work.
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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