FracFocus disclosures published between December 18, 2024 and January 17, 2025
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.
A few highlights
1,110 new fracking disclosures were added; some of these were replacements of about 100 deleted disclosures. More than half of all new disclosures were from Texas wells.
Sixty disclosures hid at least half of the chemicals used behind Trade Secret designations (Diamondback E&P published 50 of them; click for example).
Ovintiv published a disclosure reporting 233 million gallons of water
Three chemicals of concern were reported at their highest levels this month:
– Diethanolamine
– Toluene
– Methyl isobutyl ketone
Ascent Resources has been cleaning up many disclosures with the duplicate records error. They are one of the few companies correcting this problem.
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Also at Open-FF
We published a summary of “Substance Classes” of all materials reported in FracFocus. Remarkably, more than 20% of materials are not classified by chemical structure — largely because they are loosely or incompletely defined.
