hydrofracturingn.
/ˌhʌɪdrəʊˈfraktjʊərɪŋ/ = hydraulic fracturing n. at hydraulic adj. and n. Additions.
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society > occupation and work > industry > drilling for oil or gas > [noun] > forcing in water or fluid
water injection1795
water drive1917
water flooding1926
repressuring1927
water flood1928
hydraulic fracturing1948
fracking1953
sandfrac1953
sandfracing1957
hydrofracturing1972
1948 Oil & Gas Jrnl. 14 Oct. 76/2 The hydraulic fracturing process, ‘Hydrafrac’, shows distinct promise of increasing production rates from wells producing from any type of formation.]
1972 N.Y. Times 5 Nov. iv. 8/6 Hydrofracturing is an oil-field technique in which water is pumped under high pressure down an oil well that has gone dry.
1976 Nature 29 July 346/2 Interest centres on two techniques—the extraction of hot water from aquifers in sedimentary basins or near springs, and the hydrofracturing of rocks, usually granite, with a higher than average temperature.
1989 New Scientist 4 Feb. 60/1 This type of cracking is commonly done to release oil from sedimentary rock, and is called hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracturing.
Derivatives
ˈhydrofracture v. (transitive) (as a back-formation) to fracture (rock) by this process; to subject (a fissure) to hydrofracturing.
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society > occupation and work > industry > drilling for oil or gas > drill for oil or gas [verb (transitive)] > force in water or fluid
sandfrac1960
hydrofracture1983
1983 Nature 13 Jan. 103/1 Two 2,000-metre boreholes for tapping geothermal heat in ‘hot dry rock’.., by pumping water down one and out of the other, were ‘hydrofractured’ just before Christmas to connect the two wells.
1987 Science 27 Nov. 1227/2 When industry drillers hydrofracture a hole, they assume a few new fractures will form whose orientations are determined by the region's crustal stress.
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