Fracking Chemicals Search

Frequently Asked Questions

If you have trouble with finding what you need, let us know and we will do what we can to help.

If you are looking for a specific chemical and have the CAS Number, use the Search bar in the Chemical Index for a summary of that chemical across FracFocus. If you only have the chemical’s name, try searching in that Index; you may need to use the Synonym table to connect your chemical name to it’s CAS number. A general web search can help with that, too.
If you are looking for which FracFocus chemicals are on lists of Chemicals of Concern, use the Search bar in the Chemical Index to filter to specific lists, such as “CWA” for Clean Water Act, etc. The available lists of Chemicals of Concern are listed on the Chemical Index. If you have a different list that isn’t available, let us know.
If you are looking for known health effects of chemicals, summary information is provide in the Chemical Index, including the EPA’s Cheminformatics evaluation. That is explained at the bottom of the Index. In addition there are links to external data sources with extensive summary data: PubMed and EPA’s Comptox Dashboard for each chemical.

For Operator companies, use the Operator Index. Every operating company has a page that summarizes their disclosures with such information as where they operate, their years of operation, frequency that their disclosures have chemicals of concern and a profile of their Trade Secret use.
For Supplier companies (which may be chemical manufacturers, oilfield service companies or supplier companies, use the Supplier Name Table to see the range of names that have been used to refer to these companies. A full Supplier index with a page for each company is not yet available. For more detailed searches, download the data or contact us for help.

If you want a summary at the state or county level, start at the State Index and navigate to the level you want.
If you are looking for a specific well or disclosure and you have the APINumber or the well’s name, use the State Index to navigate to county of interest, then use the “List of reported disclosures in this county” to zero in on your target. If you just know the location, use the map on the county pages to find your well of interest.
For FracFocus “official” disclosures, click on the links throughout Open-FF’s Data Browser or use the “Find-a-well” feature at FracFocus.org. If you want to view the PDF version of wells you have found, click on the “PDF Disclosure Form” button.
To get a list of all FracFocus disclosures around a given location, use the research notebook: Explore_near_location. This will take you to a Google Colab session where you enter your location of interest and the notebook produces a summary of all the fracking jobs and chemicals used around that point.
To see the most recently published disclosures in your area, go to the blog posts that report on these disclosures. These posts provide analysis for the newest Open-FF curated data as we generate it.