FracFocus disclosures published between January 6 and February 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
1,382 new fracking disclosures were added. About half were from Texas, with heavy representation in SE New Mexico.
Close to 40% of disclosures masked at least a quarter of the chemical IDs as trade secrets.
Over 200 disclosures reported more than 30 million gallons of water used. This BPX well, east of San Antonio, TX, reported more than 220 million gallons.
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Eight Devon Energy wells (example) on a Lea County, NM pad were fracked in July 2025 with, among other materials, a total of over 1 million pounds of ammonium chloride, a Clean Water Act chemical.