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%:  10,002,730 gallons
 -- 50%:  15,089,949 gallons
 -- 75%:  20,713,003 gallons
 -- max:  45,779,693 gallons
 -- TOTAL 3,954,346,892 gallons

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

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
PFAS or precursors	indicates that the chemical is on the EPA's list of PFAS-related chemicals
EPA's Volatile List	indicates that the chemical is on the EPA's list of volatile chemicals: "National Volatile Organic Compound Emissions"
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
XTO Energy/ExxonMobil	59	Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico
BTA Oil Producers LLC	44	Texas, New Mexico
Pioneer Natural Resources	14	Texas
Magnolia Oil & Gas LLC	14	Texas
RimRock Oil and Gas Willison, LLC	9	North Dakota
Continental Resources, Inc	9	North Dakota
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp	9	Pennsylvania
Cimarex Energy Co.	7	Texas
Elevation Resources, LLC	6	Texas
Bison Oil & Gas II, LLC	6	Colorado
PennEnergy Resources, LLC	5	Pennsylvania
Ultra Resources	4	Wyoming
SM Energy	4	Texas
Primexx Operating	4	Texas
Petro Hunt, L.L.C.	4	North Dakota
Penn Virginia Corporation	4	Texas
Gordy Oil Company	4	Texas
Black Swan Oil & Gas	4	Texas
BKV Barnett, LLC	4	Texas
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation	4	Colorado
WPX Energy	3	Texas
Stronghold Energy II Operating LLC	3	Texas
SN EF Maverick, LLC	3	Texas
Marathon Oil	3	North Dakota
Vine Energy Operating LP	2	Louisiana
Sage Natural Resources	2	Texas
Pillar EFS, LLC	2	Texas
Olympus Energy	2	Pennsylvania
North Silo Resources, LLC	2	Wyoming
MEWBOURNE OIL COMPANY	2	Texas
ConocoPhillips Company/Burlington Resources	2	Texas
Comstock Oil & Gas	2	Louisiana
Camino Natural Resources, LLC	2	Oklahoma
Willowbend Investments, Inc.	1	Texas
Warwick Investment Group	1	Oklahoma
Travis Peak Resources, LLC	1	Oklahoma
Special Energy Corporation	1	Texas
PRI Operating, LLC	1	Texas
Legacy Reserves Operating LP	1	Texas
LOGOS Operating, LLC	1	New Mexico
Jerry Hess Operating Company	1	Texas
GULF EXPLORATION, L.L.C.	1	Oklahoma
Foundation Energy Management, LLC	1	Oklahoma
Chesapeake Operating, Inc.	1	Pennsylvania
Charter Oak Production Co., LLC	1	Oklahoma
BPX Operating Company (BP America Production Co.)	1	Louisiana
Aethon Energy Operating LLC	1	Louisiana

Report of FracFocus disclosures published the week ending September 26, 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 2021-09-19, the number of new disclosures added to FracFocus is:¶

262¶

Where these 262 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¶

975 records¶

Water use reported in these 262 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	Colorado	Larimer	map	Anadarko Petroleum Corporation	05069065290000	7/28/2021	15,707,907	6,844	100		23.8%	c01 c03 c06 c24 c26 c27
F002	Colorado	Larimer	map	Anadarko Petroleum Corporation	05069065310000	7/26/2021	13,928,414	7,128	100		16.7%	c01 c03 c06 c26 c27
F003	Colorado	Larimer	map	Anadarko Petroleum Corporation	05069065260000	7/28/2021	24,494,957	6,805	100		22.7%	c01 c03 c06 c24 c26 c27
F004	Colorado	Larimer	map	Anadarko Petroleum Corporation	05069065330000	7/26/2021	13,801,634	7,128	100		15.8%	c01 c03 c06 c24 c26 c27
F005	Colorado	Weld	map	Bison Oil & Gas II, LLC	05123481310000	9/3/2021	14,344,976	6,486	99	TRUE	5.9%	c01 c03 c04 c08 c10 c13
F006	Colorado	Weld	map	Bison Oil & Gas II, LLC	05123481260000	8/26/2021	14,218,416	6,394	99	TRUE	5.9%	c01 c03 c04 c08 c10 c13
F007	Colorado	Weld	map	Bison Oil & Gas II, LLC	05123481270000	8/26/2021	14,655,346	6,474	99	TRUE	5.9%	c01 c03 c04 c08 c10 c13
F008	Colorado	Weld	map	Bison Oil & Gas II, LLC	05123483080000	9/3/2021	14,108,822	6,456	99		5.9%	c01 c03 c04 c08 c10 c13
F009	Colorado	Weld	map	Bison Oil & Gas II, LLC	05123481290000	8/26/2021	15,174,490	6,396	99	TRUE	5.9%	c01 c03 c04 c08 c10 c13
F010	Colorado	Weld	map	Bison Oil & Gas II, LLC	05123481280000	9/3/2021	14,299,677	6,371	99		5.9%	c01 c03 c04 c08 c10 c13
F011	Louisiana	Bienville	map	Aethon Energy Operating LLC	17013222390000	9/13/2021	31,369,883	12,277	100		6.7%	c01 c05 c06 c09 c16 c22
F012	Louisiana	Bossier	map	BPX Operating Company (BP America Production Co.)	17015252150000	9/14/2021	29,528,576	11,741	100		30.0%	c16
F013	Louisiana	De Soto	map	Comstock Oil & Gas	17031268450000	7/28/2021	14,127,327	11,136	100		30.8%	c01 c06 c07 c09 c10 c22
F014	Louisiana	De Soto	map	Comstock Oil & Gas	17031268440000	7/28/2021	13,918,516	11,675	100		30.8%	c01 c06 c07 c09 c10 c22
F015	Louisiana	Sabine	map	Vine Energy Operating LP	17085225800000	8/26/2021	43,020,617	12,788	99		11.1%	c04 c05 c15 c16 c43 c46
F016	Louisiana	Sabine	map	Vine Energy Operating LP	17085225810000	8/26/2021	45,779,693	12,940	99		11.1%	c04 c05 c15 c16 c43 c46
F017	New Mexico	Eddy	map	BTA Oil Producers LLC	30015469760000	5/8/2021	25,258,800	10,930	100	TRUE	12.2%	c01 c02 c03 c04 c07 c11 c15 c17 c18
F018	New Mexico	Eddy	map	BTA Oil Producers LLC	30015471710000	5/8/2021	20,693,568	10,014	100	TRUE	12.8%	c01 c02 c03 c04 c07 c11 c15 c17 c18
F019	New Mexico	Eddy	map	BTA Oil Producers LLC	30015472000000	5/8/2021	20,973,204	10,073	100	TRUE	9.1%	c01 c02 c03 c04 c07 c11 c15 c17 c18
F020	New Mexico	Eddy	map	BTA Oil Producers LLC	30015461350000	2/20/2021	10,530,786	8,405	100		8.3%	c01 c02 c03 c04 c07 c11 c15 c17 c18
F021	New Mexico	Eddy	map	BTA Oil Producers LLC	30015461340000	2/20/2021	10,000,158	8,420	100		8.3%	c01 c02 c03 c04 c07 c11 c15 c17 c18
F022	New Mexico	Eddy	map	BTA Oil Producers LLC	30015478170000	8/24/2021	22,228,500	9,914	111	TRUE	12.8%	c01 c02 c03 c04 c07 c11 c15 c17 c18
F023	New Mexico	Eddy	map	BTA Oil Producers LLC	30015477010000	8/24/2021	21,764,946	9,940	100	TRUE	13.2%	c01 c02 c03 c04 c07 c11 c15 c17 c18
F024	New Mexico	Eddy	map	XTO Energy/ExxonMobil	30015478070000	6/4/2021	15,827,490	11,800	98		0.0%	c05
F025	New Mexico	Eddy	map	XTO Energy/ExxonMobil	30015473720000	8/1/2021	20,584,452	11,911	100	TRUE	8.9%	c01 c02 c05 c07 c08 c19
F026	New Mexico	Eddy	map	XTO Energy/ExxonMobil	30015454800000	6/4/2021	15,365,952	11,500	89	TRUE	0.0%	c05
F027	New Mexico	Eddy	map	XTO Energy/ExxonMobil	30015456170000	1/18/2021	21,867,258	10,685	100	TRUE	8.3%	c01 c02 c13 c14
F028	New Mexico	Eddy	map	XTO Energy/ExxonMobil	30015458580000	9/9/2021	14,120,820	11,130	100	TRUE	9.8%	c01 c02 c07 c08 c19
F029	New Mexico	Eddy	map	XTO Energy/ExxonMobil	30015458490000	9/13/2021	16,014,180	12,085	99		0.0%
F030	New Mexico	Eddy	map	XTO Energy/ExxonMobil	30015470760000	1/22/2021	22,295,028	10,236	100	TRUE	8.3%	c01 c02 c13 c14
F031	New Mexico	Eddy	map	XTO Energy/ExxonMobil	30015459140000	4/25/2021	12,517,260	11,700	98	TRUE	0.0%
F032	New Mexico	Eddy	map	XTO Energy/ExxonMobil	30015458660000	9/13/2021	15,596,784	11,439	99		0.0%
F033	New Mexico	Eddy	map	XTO Energy/ExxonMobil	30015458800000	5/17/2021	12,738,306	11,800	89	TRUE	12.5%
F034	New Mexico	Eddy	map	XTO Energy/ExxonMobil	30015473740000	8/18/2021	21,439,278	12,067	99		0.0%
F035	New Mexico	Eddy	map	XTO Energy/ExxonMobil	30015459340000	10/31/2020	15,049,776	11,561	100	TRUE	9.1%	c01 c02 c13 c14
F036	New Mexico	Eddy	map	XTO Energy/ExxonMobil	30015465500000	5/1/2021	17,876,408	11,618	100	TRUE	8.9%	c01 c02 c05 c07 c08 c19
F037	New Mexico	Eddy	map	XTO Energy/ExxonMobil	30015467180000	6/10/2021	20,734,938	11,813	100	TRUE	8.5%	c01 c02 c05 c07 c08 c19
F038	New Mexico	Eddy	map	XTO Energy/ExxonMobil	30015466590000	7/27/2021	20,521,494	11,860	98	TRUE	0.0%	c05
F039	New Mexico	Eddy	map	XTO Energy/ExxonMobil	30015459240000	6/11/2021	21,166,026	11,961	100	TRUE	8.5%	c01 c02 c05 c07 c08 c19
F040	New Mexico	Eddy	map	XTO Energy/ExxonMobil	30015465510000	5/1/2021	17,775,018	11,829	100	TRUE	8.9%	c01 c02 c05 c07 c08 c19