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Recent FracFocus Disclosures This file was generated on April 18, 2024 |
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FracFocus disclosures published between March 21, 2024 and April 12, 2024ΒΆ
This report summarizes the fracking jobs published recently 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 project, sponsored by The FracTracker Alliance, 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:ΒΆ
Overview of all FracFocus disclosures published this period byΒΆ
Detailed list of all disclosures including:ΒΆ
- Location, company name, API number, water use, chemicals of concern, and Federal/Indian well indicator
- Link to satellite image and Google map of fracking site
Disclosures with masses of Chemicals of Concern in the top 10% of FracFocusΒΆ
OverviewΒΆ
Where these 622 fracking jobs occurred:ΒΆ
... by stateΒΆ
... by MapΒΆ
After zooming in to see individual well markers, click on the marker to see details about the well and disclosure.
Wells are not mapped if a disclosure's geolocation data is inconsistent with its state and county location. (Most of Alaska's disclosures are not represented by acceptable county names, and so are excluded.)
The satellite image is probably older than the construction of the well pad; therefore the pad may not be in the image.
... by top OperatorsΒΆ
Operator list for all disclosuresΒΆ
| Operator | Num disclosures | in States |
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Thick vertical lines in the graph indicate 25, 50 and 75% percentiles for this report's disclosures.
-- number of empty TBWV: 0 -- 25%: 11,501,789 gallons -- 50%: 17,510,297 gallons -- 75%: 22,536,328 gallons -- max: 355,641,968 gallons -- TOTAL 11,702,687,179 gallons
Reported Water SourcesΒΆ
This is a new optional report of a fracking job's sources of water used as the carrier.
Here we summarize, by state, what operators are reporting for these new fracking jobs.
| StateName | num_disclosures | % Surface Water | % Ground Water | % Produced Water | % Other | |
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Recognized Chemicals of Concern used in these disclosuresΒΆ
The following table is based on lists of chemicals that have health or environmental effects: SDWA, CWA, Proposition 65, PFAS and TEDX.
Total number of records on Chemical of Concern list for these disclosures: 3104
| CID | CAS Number | Chemical Name | record count | Largest Mass | % Rank of Largest Mass | on_list |
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| Explanation of columns in the index above |
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| Column | Description |
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| CID | is the chemical ID used in the disclosure table |
| CAS Number | is the CAS registration number of the chemical. Click on the number for a summary of this chemical for all of FracFocus. |
| Chemical Name | is one of the common names for the material |
| record count | indicates the number of records in this period's disclosures. A given chemical may appear more than once in a disclosure |
| Largest mass | is the single greatest mass of the chemical in this period's disclosures (in pounds) |
| % Rank of largest Mass | how the largest mass from this period 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. |
| on_list | indicates which of the following lists the chemical is on. Type the name of the list into the Search box to limit to those chemicals. - CWA: indicates that the chemical is on the Clean Water Act list as compiled in EPA's CompTox - DWSHA: indicated that the chemical is on the EPA's Drinking Water Safety and Health Advisory list - TEDX: indicates that the chemical is on The Endocrine Disruption Exchange list - prop_65: indicates that the chemical is on California's Proposition 65 list - PFAS: indicates that the chemical is on EPA's comprehensive list of PFAS related compounds |
Proprietary labelingΒΆ
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. Some changes in format (the 'system approach') were made to purportedly reduce the use of proprietary claims. Nevertheless, they are still commonly employed. The following summarizes how much the past period's disclosures hid chemical identity with these claims. A detailed disclosure listing later in this report specifies the percentage of chemical records that are hidden by these claims for every disclosure. They can range from zero percent to 70% or even more.
Total number of proprietary claims since March 21, 2024: 2,097 recordsΒΆ
Detailed disclosure listingsΒΆ
Notes:ΒΆ
Listing of chemicals in individual disclosures: In the table below, individual fracking disclosures are identified by APINumber. The link on the APINumber will take you to the official FracFocus disclosure for this fracking job.
Maps: In the table below, a link is provided to a Google map/satellite view of the location provided in the disclosure (click on the APINumber). 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 since last reportΒΆ
| Columns descriptions and some issues to look for |
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- FID - Fracking job ID number (used in following table to identify heavy use of chemical)
- Water volume - volume in gallons of the water base fluid used in a fracking job
- Especially large fracking carrier (>30 million gallons)
- No data or a report of ZERO gallons of water. This prevents the calculation of chemical mass, though direct reporting may still be available
- TVD - True vertical depth (feet); Some companies may be reporting both veritcal and horizontal lengths in this number.
- No data or a report of ZERO feet.
- Deeper than deepest oil well (35,050 ft.): likely error
- Percent proprietary - proportion of chemical records for which identity is hidden
- End date - Last day of job
- many states require disclosure within 30 to 90 days.
- occasionally a reported end date is in the future, indicating mis-representation
- Total percentage ("perc sum") - the sum of all records in a disclosure should be 100% (within a tolerance)
- if less than 90%, disclosure is probably incomplete
- greater than 110% - often caused by a "system approach" entry error: duplicates of some chemical records or hidden percentages in the tradename/purpose/supplier section.
- CIDs in disclosure - see the Chemicals of Concern table above for more information
- APINumber - click on this link to view FracFocus's online disclosure and PDF.
- map_link. - Google map view of the reported location. While location data can be wrong, be aware that the well pad may be newer than the Google satellite view and therefore not in the image.
| FID | State | County | Operator | API Number (link to FF) | Google map | end date | Water volume (gal) | water source reported | TVD (feet) | perc sum | fraction proprietary | CIDs in disclosure |
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Disclosures with chemicals-of-concern masses in the top 10% of all FracFocusΒΆ
A disclosure may have more than one chemical record in the top 10% for a given CASNumber. This could be due to more than one Trade-named product using that chemical.
| FID | API Number | Operator | CAS Number | Name | Mass of chemical | Percent ranking in FracFocus |
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