Meanings
- alternativeuncountableoil industryAlternative spelling of fracking.
Fraccing fluids contain proppants that forced into the natural fractures of fissures of the rock under pressure.
2014, Alireza Bahadori, Natural Gas Processing: Technology and Engineering Design (Technology and Engineering), Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN3 more examples
I have also heard from geologists who say they spell it fraccing, and one who says it's fracting with a silent t.
2009 June 25, Ed Quillen, “Fracking, fracing or fraccing?”, in High Country News, Paonia, CO, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2018Fraccing is the process of creating cracks in underground coal seams to increase the flow and recovery of gas or oil out of a well.
2012, Queensland Government, “Hydraulic fracturing (fraccing) in CSG wells”, in Department of Environmental and Resource Management, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2011The industry argues that this is highly unlikely, as the fraccing takes place a mile or more below drinking water aquifers and is separated from them by thick layers of impermeable rock. Moreover, the industry has a great deal of experience with fraccing. More than a million wells have been fracced in the United States since the first frac job six decades ago.
2012 January 3, Ralph Benko, “Daniel Yergin's The Quest”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 19 Jun 2021
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