FracFocus disclosures published between February 19, 2025 and March 24, 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
1,098 new fracking disclosures were added; some of these were replacements of about 130 deleted disclosures. About half of all new disclosures were from Texas wells.
In those disclosures, more than 3,800 records used Trade Secret designations to hide chemical identity.
Typical water use:
20 million gallons
Seventy disclosures report at least 160,000 pounds of hydrochloric acid; Mewbourne Oil Company used about 2.5 million pounds in two wells in Crane Co., Texas.
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Also at Open-FF
Chemical quantity in FracFocus ranges from less than one pound to over one million pounds at a given well. We published a series on disclosures that omit quantity data in some records. Such omissions prevent us from from understanding the scope of the environmental and public health risks. A small set of operators are responsible for the majority of these issues.