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¶

Thick vertical lines indicate 25, 50 and 75% percentiles for this week's disclosures.

 -- 25%:  8,287,941 gallons
 -- 50%:  16,542,028 gallons
 -- 75%:  24,199,750 gallons
 -- max:  35,282,856 gallons
 -- TOTAL 3,570,588,219 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
Occidental Oil and Gas	23	New Mexico, Texas
EOG Resources, Inc.	20	New Mexico, Wyoming, Texas
Cimarex Energy Co.	16	Texas
Pioneer Natural Resources	15	Texas
Matador Production Company	13	New Mexico, Texas
ConocoPhillips Company/Burlington Resources	13	Texas
Earthstone Operating, LLC	11	Texas
SEM Operating Company, LLC	10	Texas
BKV Barnett, LLC	8	Texas
Ovintiv USA Inc.	7	Texas
XTO Energy/ExxonMobil	6	Texas
Steward Energy II, LLC	6	New Mexico, Texas
EQT Production	5	Ohio
Chevron USA Inc.	5	New Mexico
Aethon Energy Operating LLC	5	Texas, Louisiana
Stronghold Energy II Operating LLC	4	Texas
HighPeak Energy Holdings, LLC.	4	Texas
Endeavor Energy Resources	4	Texas
EAP Ohio LLC	4	Ohio
Diamondback E&P LLC	4	Texas
Vine Energy Operating LP	3	Louisiana
Southwestern Energy	3	Pennsylvania
Red Rocks Oil & Gas Operating LLC	3	Oklahoma
Mallard Exploration	3	Colorado
EXTRACTION OIL & GAS LLC	3	Colorado
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp	3	Pennsylvania
Teal Natural Resources	2	Texas
Scout Energy Partners	2	Texas
Petro Hunt, L.L.C.	2	North Dakota
PennEnergy Resources, LLC	2	Pennsylvania
Laredo Petroleum, Inc.	2	Texas
Laredo Energy	2	Texas
COG Operating LLC	2	New Mexico
Roff Operating Company	1	Texas
RP Operating, LLC	1	Texas
Mack Energy Co.	1	Oklahoma
Mach Resources	1	Oklahoma
Charter Oak Production Co., LLC	1	Oklahoma
Bluefin Resources LLC	1	Texas
Blakenergy Operating, LLC	1	Texas
Anschutz Exploration Corporation	1	Wyoming
Aera Energy LLC	1	California

Report of FracFocus disclosures published the week ending May 31, 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 2021-05-24, the number of new disclosures added to FracFocus is:¶

224¶

Where these 224 fracking jobs occurred:¶

... by county¶

... by top Operators¶

Operator list for all disclosures¶

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

>>>> No "indian wells" reported¶

Total number of proprietary claims this week¶

799 records¶

Water use reported in these 224 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	Fed. Well	percent proprietary	CIDs in disclosure
F001	California	Kern - 30	map	Aera Energy LLC	04030661940000	3/26/2021	20,037	1,516	100		0.0%	c02 c38
F002	Colorado	Weld	map	EXTRACTION OIL & GAS LLC	05123450140000	5/6/2021	7,513,336	6,951	99	TRUE	7.1%	c01 c02 c04 c10
F003	Colorado	Weld	map	EXTRACTION OIL & GAS LLC	05123450180000	5/6/2021	6,518,752	6,907	99	TRUE	7.1%	c01 c02 c04 c10
F004	Colorado	Weld	map	EXTRACTION OIL & GAS LLC	05123450110000	5/9/2021	6,106,177	7,113	99	TRUE	6.1%	c01 c02 c04 c10
F005	Colorado	Weld	map	Mallard Exploration	05123484200000	5/21/2021	26,212,541	6,341	99	TRUE	10.0%	c01 c02 c04 c10
F006	Colorado	Weld	map	Mallard Exploration	05123484270000	5/21/2021	26,391,962	6,296	99	TRUE	10.0%	c01 c02 c04 c10
F007	Colorado	Weld	map	Mallard Exploration	05123484240000	5/20/2021	32,392,606	6,274	99	TRUE	10.0%	c01 c02 c04 c10
F008	Louisiana	Bienville	map	Aethon Energy Operating LLC	17013222180000	4/26/2021	20,654,567	12,584	99		21.1%	c01 c02 c05 c06 c33
F009	Louisiana	Sabine	map	Vine Energy Operating LP	17085225640000	5/3/2021	25,844,839	12,395	99		11.1%	c02 c04 c08 c16 c28 c33
F010	Louisiana	Sabine	map	Vine Energy Operating LP	17085225620000	5/11/2021	19,672,250	12,080	99		11.1%	c02 c04 c08 c16 c28 c33
F011	Louisiana	Sabine	map	Vine Energy Operating LP	17085225630000	5/4/2021	28,611,820	12,167	99		11.1%	c02 c04 c08 c16 c28 c33
F012	New Mexico	Eddy	map	COG Operating LLC	30015474390000	4/24/2021	24,585,505	9,438	100	TRUE	52.9%	c13
F013	New Mexico	Eddy	map	COG Operating LLC	30015474420000	4/24/2021	24,499,394	9,410	100	TRUE	52.9%	c13
F014	New Mexico	Eddy	map	Chevron USA Inc.	30015466360000	1/23/2021	24,714,102	9,867	100		9.5%	c01 c03 c05 c11 c14 c16
F015	New Mexico	Eddy	map	Chevron USA Inc.	30015466310000	1/23/2021	25,298,700	9,830	100		9.5%	c01 c03 c05 c11 c14 c16
F016	New Mexico	Eddy	map	Chevron USA Inc.	30015466320000	1/22/2021	24,092,334	9,748	100		9.5%	c01 c03 c05 c11 c14 c16
F017	New Mexico	Eddy	map	Chevron USA Inc.	30015466350000	3/18/2021	18,016,320	9,566	100		0.0%	c03 c05 c14
F018	New Mexico	Eddy	map	Chevron USA Inc.	30015466340000	1/23/2021	18,515,028	9,538	100		8.7%	c01 c03 c05 c11 c14 c16
F019	New Mexico	Eddy	map	Matador Production Company	30015449240000	4/29/2021	18,502,045	7,933	99		0.0%	c01 c04 c07 c09 c10 c15
F020	New Mexico	Eddy	map	Matador Production Company	30015473120000	1/30/2021	30,024,605	11,320	99		0.0%	c01 c02 c04 c07 c09 c10 c15
F021	New Mexico	Eddy	map	Matador Production Company	30015445740000	4/29/2021	18,608,401	8,126	99		0.0%	c01 c04 c07 c09 c10 c15
F022	New Mexico	Eddy	map	Matador Production Company	30015469800000	3/19/2021	27,736,193	9,962	99		0.0%	c01 c02 c04 c07 c09 c10 c15
F023	New Mexico	Eddy	map	Matador Production Company	30015465640000	6/30/2020	23,858,268	11,515	99		2.6%	c01 c02 c04 c07 c09 c10 c15
F024	New Mexico	Eddy	map	Matador Production Company	30015471260000	1/30/2021	29,846,149	11,630	99		0.0%	c01 c02 c04 c07 c09 c10 c15
F025	New Mexico	Eddy	map	Matador Production Company	30015469920000	3/22/2021	27,684,426	11,651	99		0.0%	c01 c02 c04 c07 c09 c10 c15
F026	New Mexico	Eddy	map	Matador Production Company	30015469900000	3/22/2021	29,947,968	11,213	99		0.0%	c01 c02 c04 c07 c09 c10 c15
F027	New Mexico	Eddy	map	Matador Production Company	30015470150000	1/28/2021	28,096,714	9,989	99		0.0%	c01 c02 c04 c07 c09 c10 c15
F028	New Mexico	Eddy	map	Occidental Oil and Gas	30015479600000	5/17/2021	15,824,029	8,813	100	TRUE	10.0%	c14
F029	New Mexico	Eddy	map	Occidental Oil and Gas	30015479590000	5/17/2021	22,455,783	8,849	100	TRUE	10.0%	c14
F030	New Mexico	Eddy	map	Occidental Oil and Gas	30015479610000	5/15/2021	16,083,479	8,784	100	TRUE	25.0%	c04 c14
F031	New Mexico	Lea	map	EOG Resources, Inc.	30025444670000	7/3/2020	18,549,132	10,558	100		18.2%	c02 c03
F032	New Mexico	Lea	map	Matador Production Company	30025473500000	2/22/2021	24,583,562	12,227	99		0.0%	c01 c02 c04 c07 c09 c10 c15
F033	New Mexico	Lea	map	Matador Production Company	30025473510000	2/22/2021	22,897,182	12,390	99		0.0%	c01 c02 c04 c07 c09 c10 c15
F034	New Mexico	Lea	map	Steward Energy II, LLC	30025474750000	12/19/2020	4,101,170	5,364	100		14.0%	c03 c04 c05 c06 c08 c09 c10 c15
F035	North Dakota	Billings	map	Petro Hunt, L.L.C.	33007019160000	5/11/2021	19,112,624	11,009	100		34.5%	c01 c05 c08 c12 c13 c17 c36
F036	North Dakota	Billings	map	Petro Hunt, L.L.C.	33007019150000	5/11/2021	18,469,158	11,008	100		34.5%	c01 c05 c08 c12 c13 c17 c36
F037	Ohio	Belmont	map	EQT Production	34013214280000	3/7/2021	29,526,756	9,711	99		15.6%	c01 c02 c03 c06 c18
F038	Ohio	Belmont	map	EQT Production	34013214330000	3/5/2021	27,204,030	9,651	99		15.6%	c01 c02 c03 c06 c18
F039	Ohio	Belmont	map	EQT Production	34013214310000	3/7/2021	29,810,970	9,689	99		15.6%	c01 c02 c03 c06 c18
F040	Ohio	Belmont	map	EQT Production	34013214680000	3/20/2021	16,658,796	9,623	99		15.6%	c01 c02 c03 c06 c18