Meanings
plural frackers
- A person or organization employed in fracking.
Conoco on Monday announced a $9.7 billion all-stock takeover of Concho Resources (CXO), a fracker squarely focused on the Permian Basin, the massive West Texas oilfield at the heart of the shale revolution.
2020 October 19, Matt Egan, “The oil industry is in crisis. ConocoPhillips is doubling down”, in CNN Business1 more example
Slowly, they marched toward a bigger role in the fracking industry. When competing Texas frackers looked to freeze the brothers out from the companies that distribute the sand needed to drill, the siblings opened their own sand quarry to thrive.
2015 July 25, Theodore Schleifer, “First on CNN: Billionaire brothers give Cruz super PAC $15 million”, in CNN
Origin
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