FracFocus disclosures published between October 09, 2024 and November 7, 2024
Background
- This report of new chemical disclosures 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.
- If you have specific interests in the FracFocus data but are having trouble with it, please contact us.
Highlights
FracFocus published 1,294 new disclosures recently. Close to two-thirds of them are in Texas.
Typical disclosures are hiding 10-25% or more of the chemicals’ identities behind trade secret designations.
Over 120 disclosures report over 30 million gallons of water used.
Over 7,000 records are on lists of Chemicals of Concern.
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Changes at the Open-FF website
State-focused pages now summarize FracFocus’s new Water Source data.
And we have added the functional group information from Elsner and Hoelzer 2016 analysis into the Chemical Index. This allows users to find specific types of chemicals among the 1400+ chemicals reported by the industry. Not all chemicals are classified yet – that is in the works.
