FracFocus disclosures published between September 7, 2025 and October 7, 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
908 new fracking disclosures were added. About half were from Texas.
There were over 3,000 trade secret records reported this month.
Over 17 billion gallons of water was reported, including 4 wells in Louisiana that each reported over 60,000,000 gallons
Twelve distinct PFAS chemicals were used in 4 wells in Utah (example). These are used as tracers and thus, at small quantities.
(Molecular image courtesy US EPA)