English

Alternative forms

• fracking
• fracing

Noun

fraccing ‎(uncountable)

1. (oil industry) Hydraulic fracturing.

   • 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 9780124202047:

     Fraccing fluids contain proppants that forced into the natural fractures of fissures of the rock under pressure.