FracFocus disclosures published between September 13, 2024 and October 8, 2024
Highlights
- Companies published FracFocus disclosures representing 1,180 fracking jobs in 15 states. More than half of them were in Texas.
- Companies reported using more than 22 billion gallons of water, including over 130 disclosures each reporting over 30 million gallons. Occidental Oil and Gas reported using over 600 million gallons in five separate New Mexico jobs. This was most likely a data error.
- Companies used more than 4,200 trade secret designations.
- Over 6,900 records reported chemicals on our list of “Chemicals of Concern.” Ascent Resources reported almost 30 million pounds of methanol and 12 million pounds of sodium nitrate in one Ohio disclosure. This was most likely a mistake.
- Of these “new” disclosures, over 120 are replacements of previously published 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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