This report summarizes the fracking jobs published this week at FracFocus, the industry-funded 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.

This report is produced by Open-FF, an open source, public service project to make the FracFocus data more usable. 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 reports 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.

In this report:¶

Overview of all FracFocus disclosures published this week¶

by State, County, Operators and Federal/Indian indicators
Water use
Recognized Chemicals of Concern
Proprietary claims including
- by state
- mass of reported categories of materials

Detailed list of all disclosures including:¶

Location, company name, API number, water use, and Federal/Indian well indicator
Link to satellite image and Google map of fracking site
Flags indicating problems or areas of concern:
- High levels of proprietary claims
- Water use: missing data or very large volumes
- Chemical percentage: disclosure total is out of tolerance
- Long delay before publication
- Chemicals of concern

Disclosures with masses of Chemicals of Concern in the top 10% of FracFocus¶

Notes:¶

Raw, unfiltered data: This weekly report summarizes the disclosures that were published in FracFocus over the past week. This report reflects raw names and numbers that have not yet been checked for validity. To see cleaned data set for earlier dates, go to the Open-FF data catalog or at CodeOcean.

... by county¶

... by top Operators¶

Operator list for all disclosures¶

... "Federal wells" or "Indian wells"¶

Total number of proprietary claims this week¶

 -- 25%:  10,614,806 gallons
 -- 50%:  17,315,592 gallons
 -- 75%:  21,519,937 gallons
 -- max:  36,925,260 gallons
 -- TOTAL 3,675,460,291 gallons

Recognized Chemicals of Concern used in these disclosures¶

The following table is based on lists of chemicals that have health or environmental effects: SDWA, CWA, Proposition 65, and TEDX.

Column	Description
CID	is the chemical ID used in the disclosure table
bgCAS	is the CAS registration number of the chemical
record_count	indicates the number of records in this week's disclosures. A given chemical may appear more than once in a disclosure
proportional rank of biggest	how the largest max from this week compares to the rest of FracFocus data (through last update). Ex. 95.0 means that this mass was in the top 5% of all uses ever recorded in FracFocus. If there are records with values of 90% or more, a list of all disclosures are in a table later in this report.
Chemical Name	is one of the common names for the material
max mass	is the single greatest mass of the chemical in this week's disclosures (in pounds)
SDWA CWA	indicates if the chemical is on the Safe Drinking Water Act list or the Clean Water Act list (compiled by the Wylie Lab)
CA Prop 65	indicates if the chemical is on California's Proposition 65 list
TEDX	indicates if the chemical is on The Endocrine Disruption Exchange list
FF history	link to summary of this chemical for all of FracFocus (filtered data - up to last major update)
ChemID link	link to the ChemID website for this chemical

Proprietary labeling¶

FracFocus allows disclosures to hide the identity of chemicals that companies claim are business secrets. This practice has been controversial since the beginning of FracFocus and there have been purported measures taken to reduce the proprietary claims. Nevertheless, they are still commonly used. The following summarizes how much the past week's disclosures hid chemical identity with these claims. The individual disclosure listing later in this report specifies the percentage of chemical records that are hidden by these claims for every disclosure.

Open-FF detects proprietary claims solely by the terms used in the CASNumber field. Other fields may also indicate such claims but are ignored here, so these numbers are conservative.

Portion of records hidden this week, by state¶

Ingredient names used for proprietary records for this week's disclosures¶

Because these are proprietary claims, the reported ingredient name will not be specific, just a general class.

In some cases, companies do not report the PercentHFJob or report 0.0% for proprietary records. We use 0.0 pounds for those records in the following table.

Notes:¶

Listing of chemicals in individual disclosures: In the table below, individual fracking disclosures are identified by APINumber. If you are interested in seeing the details of the raw data, use that APINumber at the FracFocus "Find a Well" site. That search site will serve pdf files of individual fracking events to your computer with most of the same raw data available used here. However, mass of chemicals is not available from these pdfs.

Maps: In the table below, a link is provided to a Google map/satellite view of the location provided in the disclosure. Many recently published fracking sites are newer than the satellite image that Google uses, so the well pad may not be visible. However, you can still view the geographic context of the drilling site.

Listing of all new disclosures published this week¶

Color coding of cells indicates conditions of particular concern:

FID - Fracking job ID number (not used yet)
Water volume - volume in gallons of the water base fluid used in a fracking job
- light blue: especially large fracking carrier (>30 million gallons)
- red: no data or a report of ZERO gallons of water. This prevents the calculation of chemical mass
TVD - True vertical depth (feet)
- red: no data or a report of ZERO feet.
- yellow: likely error: deeper than deepest oil well (35,050 ft.)
Percent proprietary - proportion of chemical records for which identity is hidden
- light pink: at least 10%
- pink: at least 25%
- red: at least 50%
End date - Last day of job
- tan: more than one year to publish the disclosure
- brown: more than two years to publish the disclosure
- light blue: end date is in the future
Total percentage ("perc sum") - the sum of all records in a disclosure should be 100% (within a tolerance)
- yellow: less than 90%
- orange: greater than 110% - often caused by a "system approach" entry error: duplicates of some chemical records
CIDs in disclosure - see the Chemicals of Concern table above for more information

Operator	Num disclosures	in States
Diamondback E&P LLC	28	Texas
Endeavor Energy Resources	26	Texas
EOG Resources, Inc.	16	Wyoming, New Mexico
Bayswater Exploration & Production, LLC	15	Colorado
Continental Resources, Inc	14	North Dakota, Oklahoma
Birch Operations, Inc.	10	Texas
Pioneer Natural Resources	9	Texas
WPX Energy	8	Texas, North Dakota
BKV Barnett, LLC	8	Texas
Range Resources Corporation	7	Pennsylvania
Pride Energy Company	7	Texas
CrownQuest Operating, LLC	7	Texas
Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc.	7	Colorado
Gulfport Energy Corporation	5	Oklahoma
DE3 Operating LLC	5	Texas
Southwestern Energy	4	Pennsylvania
Comstock Oil & Gas	4	Louisiana
CH4-Finley Operating LLC	4	Utah
BPX Operating Company (BP America Production Co.)	4	Texas
Ascent Resources - Utica, LLC	4	Ohio
Mack Energy Co.	3	Oklahoma
Lewis Energy Group	3	Texas
Citizen Energy II	3	Oklahoma
PennEnergy Resources, LLC	2	Pennsylvania
Nickel Road Operating LLC	2	Colorado
Henry Resources LLC	2	Texas
Finley Resources, Inc.	2	Utah
Crescent Pass Energy, LLC	2	Texas
ConocoPhillips Company/Burlington Resources	2	Texas
Chevron USA Inc.	2	California
Chesapeake Operating, Inc.	2	Pennsylvania
Browning Oil Company, Inc.	2	Texas
Apache Corporation	2	Texas
Advance Energy Partners Hat Mesa LLC	2	New Mexico
Urban Oil and Gas Group	1	Oklahoma
Stephens & Johnson Operating Co.	1	Oklahoma
Stanolind Production LLC	1	Texas
Sandpoint Operating, LLC	1	Texas
Reliance Energy, Inc	1	Texas
Ovintiv Production, Inc.	1	North Dakota
Moriah Operating, LLC	1	Texas
Indigo Minerals	1	Louisiana
Gunn Oil Company	1	Texas
Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd.	1	Texas
Evergreen Natural Resources LLC	1	Colorado
Bluefin Resources LLC	1	Texas

Report of FracFocus disclosures published the week ending May 07, 2021¶

In this report:¶

Overview of all FracFocus disclosures published this week¶

Detailed list of all disclosures including:¶

Disclosures with masses of Chemicals of Concern in the top 10% of FracFocus¶

Notes:¶

Overview¶

Since 2021-04-30, the number of new disclosures added to FracFocus is:¶

235¶

Where these 235 fracking jobs occurred:¶

... by county¶

... by top Operators¶

Operator list for all disclosures¶

... "Federal wells" or "Indian wells"¶

Total number of proprietary claims this week¶

1332 records¶

Water use reported in these 235 disclosures¶

Recognized Chemicals of Concern used in these disclosures¶

Proprietary labeling¶

Portion of records hidden this week, by state¶

Ingredient names used for proprietary records for this week's disclosures¶

Individual disclosure listings¶

Notes:¶

Listing of all new disclosures published this week¶

Disclosures with chemicals-of-concern masses in the top 10% of all FracFocus¶

FID	State	County	link	Operator	API Number	end date	Water volume (gal)	TVD (feet)	perc sum	percent proprietary	CIDs in disclosure
F001	California	Kern - 30	map	Chevron USA Inc.	04030630520000	3/3/2021	196,757	1,873	174	0.0%	c04 c37
F002	California	Kern - 30	map	Chevron USA Inc.	04030630510000	3/1/2021	228,130	1,914	172	0.0%	c04 c37
F003	Colorado	Las Animas	map	Evergreen Natural Resources LLC	05071079380000	4/27/2021	56,868	2,905	100	20.0%	c37
F004	Colorado	Weld	map	Bayswater Exploration & Production, LLC	05123511890000	4/20/2021	18,522,802	7,016	99	5.9%	c01 c02 c03 c07 c10
F005	Colorado	Weld	map	Bayswater Exploration & Production, LLC	05123504100000	4/6/2021	13,029,545	7,220	100	38.2%	c01 c02 c03 c13 c20
F006	Colorado	Weld	map	Bayswater Exploration & Production, LLC	05123504190000	3/24/2021	13,723,404	7,343	100	42.9%	c01 c02 c03 c06 c13 c20
F007	Colorado	Weld	map	Bayswater Exploration & Production, LLC	05123504200000	4/19/2021	13,055,383	7,276	100	38.2%	c01 c02 c03 c13 c20
F008	Colorado	Weld	map	Bayswater Exploration & Production, LLC	05123504180000	4/6/2021	13,130,200	7,470	100	38.2%	c01 c02 c03 c13 c20
F009	Colorado	Weld	map	Bayswater Exploration & Production, LLC	05123511900000	4/20/2021	19,072,381	7,205	99	5.9%	c01 c02 c03 c07 c10
F010	Colorado	Weld	map	Bayswater Exploration & Production, LLC	05123504160000	4/19/2021	13,078,165	7,365	100	38.2%	c01 c02 c03 c13 c20
F011	Colorado	Weld	map	Bayswater Exploration & Production, LLC	05123504060000	4/19/2021	13,020,169	7,210	100	38.2%	c01 c02 c03 c13 c20
F012	Colorado	Weld	map	Bayswater Exploration & Production, LLC	05123511860000	4/20/2021	18,102,386	7,084	99	5.9%	c01 c02 c03 c07 c10
F013	Colorado	Weld	map	Bayswater Exploration & Production, LLC	05123504150000	4/20/2021	13,106,410	7,475	100	38.2%	c01 c02 c03 c13 c20
F014	Colorado	Weld	map	Bayswater Exploration & Production, LLC	05123505030000	3/24/2021	13,478,766	7,454	100	42.9%	c01 c02 c03 c06 c13 c20
F015	Colorado	Weld	map	Bayswater Exploration & Production, LLC	05123504080000	4/6/2021	13,132,759	7,370	100	38.2%	c01 c02 c03 c13 c20
F016	Colorado	Weld	map	Bayswater Exploration & Production, LLC	05123504220000	3/24/2021	13,546,223	7,271	100	42.9%	c01 c02 c03 c06 c13 c20
F017	Colorado	Weld	map	Bayswater Exploration & Production, LLC	05123504980000	3/24/2021	13,605,757	7,192	100	42.9%	c01 c02 c03 c06 c13 c20
F018	Colorado	Weld	map	Bayswater Exploration & Production, LLC	05123505070000	4/5/2021	13,124,690	7,197	100	38.2%	c01 c02 c03 c13 c20
F019	Colorado	Weld	map	Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc.	05123502810000	4/16/2021	13,799,932	6,130	99	6.7%	c01 c03 c05 c26
F020	Colorado	Weld	map	Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc.	05123502800000	4/25/2021	13,782,602	6,155	99	6.7%	c01 c03 c05 c26
F021	Colorado	Weld	map	Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc.	05123502750000	4/16/2021	13,438,895	6,150	99	6.7%	c01 c03 c05 c26
F022	Colorado	Weld	map	Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc.	05123502790000	4/16/2021	26,778,574	6,151	99	6.7%	c01 c03 c05 c26
F023	Colorado	Weld	map	Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc.	05123502770000	4/25/2021	13,781,713	6,125	99	6.7%	c01 c03 c05 c26
F024	Colorado	Weld	map	Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc.	05123502780000	4/25/2021	13,804,254	6,116	99	6.7%	c01 c03 c05 c26
F025	Colorado	Weld	map	Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc.	05123502760000	4/16/2021	13,782,989	6,130	99	6.7%	c01 c03 c05 c26
F026	Colorado	Weld	map	Nickel Road Operating LLC	05123494350000	2/28/2021	16,072,211	7,290	99	5.3%	c01 c02 c03 c04 c07 c10
F027	Colorado	Weld	map	Nickel Road Operating LLC	05123494400000	2/28/2021	15,942,192	7,290	99	5.3%	c01 c02 c03 c04 c07 c10
F028	Louisiana	De Soto	map	Comstock Oil & Gas	17031269470000	4/5/2021	20,632,500	12,212	100	8.3%	c02 c03 c09 c32
F029	Louisiana	De Soto	map	Comstock Oil & Gas	17031269270000	3/17/2021	27,458,886	11,187	100	5.9%	c01 c02 c03 c09 c32
F030	Louisiana	De Soto	map	Comstock Oil & Gas	17031269260000	3/17/2021	29,012,760	11,062	100	5.9%	c01 c02 c03 c09 c32
F031	Louisiana	De Soto	map	Comstock Oil & Gas	17031269480000	4/4/2021	18,596,298	12,255	100	11.1%	c02 c03 c32
F032	Louisiana	Natchitoches	map	Indigo Minerals	17069204790000	3/19/2021	0	12,620	101	23.1%	c01 c04 c05 c08 c16 c21 c28 c29 c35 c40 c41
F033	New Mexico	Lea	map	Advance Energy Partners Hat Mesa LLC	30025466960000	11/12/2020	24,777,144	11,152	100	5.9%	c01 c02 c03 c05 c08 c18 c25 c42
F034	New Mexico	Lea	map	Advance Energy Partners Hat Mesa LLC	30025464920000	3/1/2020	23,055,816	10,963	100	13.2%	c01 c02 c05 c08 c18 c25
F035	New Mexico	Lea	map	EOG Resources, Inc.	30025471600000	3/18/2021	12,756,954	10,926	99	22.2%	c05
F036	New Mexico	Lea	map	EOG Resources, Inc.	30025479720000	3/18/2021	12,674,970	10,671	99	22.2%	c05
F037	New Mexico	Lea	map	EOG Resources, Inc.	30025479890000	3/25/2021	12,244,722	10,667	99	22.2%	c05
F038	New Mexico	Lea	map	EOG Resources, Inc.	30025476060000	3/17/2021	17,318,238	12,433	99	27.3%	c04 c05
F039	New Mexico	Lea	map	EOG Resources, Inc.	30025476050000	3/19/2021	17,010,588	12,427	99	11.1%	c04 c05
F040	New Mexico	Lea	map	EOG Resources, Inc.	30025478290000	3/17/2021	23,191,686	12,874	99	27.3%	c04 c05