Introduction and tour

The Open-FF Project aims to transform the industry’s FracFocus disclosure data into an effective public resource.

The following pages give an overview of the chemical data in Open-FF and why it is useful; the when, where, what and who of fracking chemicals. Click on any of these topics and follow the prompts through the tour.

FracFocus vs. Open-FF

Some helpful definitions

Resolving chemical identity

Two views of chemical quantity

A thin slice of a big pie

Over 12 years and 200,000 fracking events

Geographic range of data

Water and sand use

What are the common fracking chemicals?

What about those other 1,200+ chemicals?

What do we know about the hazards of these chemicals?

Trade Secrets

What about chemicals at the local level?

Companies involved

Clearly, this tour barely scratches the surface of research opportunities. Hopefully you will be inspired to look more deeply.

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