FracFocus disclosures published between
December 1, 2025 and January 6, 2026
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
1,091 new fracking disclosures were added. About half were from Texas.
Six percent of disclosures hid more than half of chemicals by trade secret claims
About 150 disclosures reported more than 30 million gallons of water used. Three wells on this Ohio pad each reported over 54 million gallons.
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A Texas fracking job by Halcon Operating from 2018, apparently just now disclosed, used over 600,000 pounds of acrylamide and 600,000 pounds of acetaldehyde in three wells.