fraccing

English

Noun

fraccing (uncountable)

  1. (oil industry) Alternative spelling of fracking
    • 2009 June 25, Ed Quillen, “Fracking, fracing or fraccing?”, in High Country News‎, Paonia, CO:
      I have also heard from geologists who say they spell it fraccing, and one who says it's fracting with a silent t.
    • 2012, Queensland Government, “Hydraulic fracturing (fraccing) in CSG wells”, in Department of Environmental and Resource Management‎, retrieved 2012-01-28:
      Fraccing 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 January 3, Ralph Benko, “Daniel Yergin's The Quest”, in Forbes‎:
      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.
    • 2014, Alireza Bahadori, Natural Gas Processing: Technology and Engineering Design‎ (Technology and Engineering), Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN:
      Fraccing fluids contain proppants that forced into the natural fractures of fissures of the rock under pressure.
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