FracFocus disclosures published between August 18, 2024 and September 12, 2024
Highlights
- Companies published FracFocus disclosures representing 1,289 fracking jobs in 15 states. More than half of them were in Texas.
- Companies reported using more than 20 billion gallons of water, including over 120 disclosures each reporting over 30 million gallons. Trinity Operating reported using 174 million gallons in one job.
- Companies used more than 4,000 trade secret designations.
- Over 7,200 records reported chemicals on our list of “Chemicals of Concern.” These include individual records of
- over 100,000 pounds of glutaraldehyde, and
- over 1.8 million pounds of hydrochloric acid.
- Of these “new” disclosures, over 90 are replacements of previously published disclosures by PennEnergy Resources. In these replacements, the company removed the duplicate records that plague about 20,000 disclosures.
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This report of new chemical disclosures for August and September 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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