Ground Water Protection Council and Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission Unveil the Nation’s First Single-Source Website Disclosing Additives
on a Well-by-Well Basis at www.fracfocus.org

OKLAHOMA CITY, April 11, 2011 – The Ground Water Protection Council (GWPC) and the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC), with funding support from the United States Department of Energy (DOE), unveiled a landmark web-based national registry disclosing the chemical additives used in the hydraulic fracturing process on a well-by-well basis. The information on the website covers wells drilled starting in 2011. The initiative provides energy companies involved in oil and gas exploration and production a single-source means to publically disclose the chemical additives used in the hydraulic fracturing process.
Used in the development of deep shale horizontal wells, hydraulic fracturing fluid is a mixture of water and sand with a small amount of chemical additives to enhance the production of hydrocarbons from otherwise inaccessible oil and gas reserves deep below the earth’s surface. Water and sand generally comprise approximately 98 percent of hydraulic fracturing fluid volume. The fracturing fluid is pumped at high pressure underground to create small cracks, or fractures, releasing the trapped oil and gas from rock formations allowing it to flow through the wellbore to the surface where it is captured. The process, which has been the subject of a number of state regulatory initiatives, public interest and an ongoing study by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is overseen by regulatory professionals at the state level in the field of earth science. Over 90 percent of the wells drilled in the United States use the hydraulic fracturing process.

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