FracFocus disclosures published between January 17, 2025 and February 19, 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
1,198 new fracking disclosures were added; some of these were replacements of about 25 deleted disclosures. More than half of all new disclosures were from Texas wells.
Chevron and Ascent Resources report using more than 30,000 pounds of the toxic chemical, acrylamide.
Devon Energy reports using a record 325,000 pounds of the chemical, ammonium sulfate, a material listed by the Endocrine Disruption Exchange.
Ascent Resources continues cleaning up more disclosures with the duplicate records error. It is one of the few companies correcting this problem.
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Also at Open-FF
We published a classification of FracFocus chemicals that includes summaries of chemical characteristics and usage statistics over the past decade.
