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Search for nearby well sites that have been hydraulically fractured to see what chemicals were used in the process.
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Welcome to FracFocus 2.0! We're excited about our latest upgrades designed to dramatically enhance the site's functionality for the public, state regulatory agencies and industry users. Our user-friendly 'Find A Well' chemical disclosure registry now includes more extensive search options.
FracFocus continues to evolve and expand, adding more participating companies and reported wells from across the country. Our continued success is the result of nationally recognized organizations working with state governments and the oil and natural gas industry to provide public transparency.
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This technique uses a specially blended liquid which is pumped into a well under extreme pressure causing cracks in rock formations underground. These cracks in the rock then allow oil and natural gas to flow, increasing resource production.
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Casing is the multiple layers of steel and cement inside the drilled hole used to protect water aquifers. The specific length, thickness, strength and composition of casing is regulated at the state level.
Illustration Courtesy of the Texas Oil & Gas Association.
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Use the interactive map to find regulations per state as well as contact information for groundwater protection and oil and natural gas production.
Groundwater Protection: Priority Number One
Oil and natural gas producers have stringent requirements for how wells must be completed. The genesis of these requirements is water safety.
Casing is the first line of defense used to protect freshwater aquifers.
More About Groundwater Protection »
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Are the records from FracFocus available in a digital format such as Excel?
No. FracFocus was originally designed to serve records one at a time in Adobe pdf format in order to ensure accurate, unaltered and uncompromised data. Consequently the chemical information gathered does not currently reside in a database or spreadsheet format.
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FracFocus is telling me the well I entered is outside the county boundaries?
FracFocus says my well location is not within the county boundaries but I know it is not. What could be the problem?
FracFocus uses a bounding box surrounding the identified county of the well to test the location spot provided for the well. The wells location is required to be entered in Decimal Degrees. The validation test is to make sure that the well is located within the county identified from the API Well Number supplied for the well that is being reported on. Many times an operator will have the well’s location reported to them in a format know as Degrees-Minutes-Seconds (D-M-S) and that location may appear as:
NAD83:
Lat: 32o06’03.458”
Long: 101o39’04.112”
The above format is not correct for entering into FracFocus. We have seen a number of operators try to enter this information in as 32.0603458 and -101.3904112. Again this would be wrong. The proper way is to convert the above information from Degress,Minutes and Seconds to Decimal Degrees. There are a number of conversion tools available for free on the internet. One is located at:
http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/DDDMMSS-decimal.html
By entering the above numbers into the conversion tool we get the following Lat/Long in Decimal Degrees that can be entered into FracFocus.
NAD83:
Lat: 32.100961
Long: 101.651142 -
How long after fracturing is a record usually posted on FracFocus?
Although the length of time it takes to post a record to Fracfocus varies by state the overall average time taken to post records to FracFocus is 79 days following the Job End Date on the record.
