FracFocus disclosures published between May 4, 2026 and June 8, 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
(all satellite images from Google maps)
Reported 1.2 million pounds of magnesium chloride, a substance flagged by The Endocrine Disruption Exchange. This is the largest amount ever reported in FracFocus.
Number of people that live within 2 miles: 2,100.1
Twelve disclosures submitted for this pad. Each well used about 10-18 million gallons of water.
Reported use of PTFE (teflon); a PFAS chemical
Number of people that live within 2 miles: 20,8002
In total, 1,282 new fracking disclosures were added. As is typical, about half were from Texas, also with heavy representation from New Mexico and North Dakota.
Among the 118 operating companies disclosing this month, Continental, Oxy, Devon and Diamondback disclosed the most.
The median water use in these disclosures was over 19 million gallons per well. More that 230 wells received more that 30 million gallons.
More than 4,200 chemical identities were masked as trade secrets. Twenty-two disclosures hid more than half of those identities.