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⛽ Oil extraction process ⛽ To extract oil ➗ A fraction
to frac

to frac

1 9.3
To force liquid into rock at high pressure to release oil or gas
  • verb
  • /fræk/
  • Jargon
translation icon : fracturar
  • The engineers will need to frac the site to ensure the best possible extraction of oil.

You know, now they are using natural gas that, you know, to frack the wells instead of running their brake bake pump trucks off of diesel.

Examples

  • The way that they find the rock to frack is by kind of doing an X-ray of the earth.

  • And we should get the rest of the world in some sense to frack because it's really cheap.

  • You know, now they are using natural gas that, you know, to frack the wells instead of running their brake bake pump trucks off of diesel.

    The Rich Dad Channel

  • You drill sideways, then you pump frack fracking fluid, it's a incompressible stuff and give it A and then it cracks everything and the gas comes out.

  • To access the gas deep underground, the company plans to frac the rock layers by injecting fluid at high pressure.

  • Before drilling begins, they must frac the area to release trapped natural gas.

Synonyms

to hydrofrack
vsto frac
  • Specialized
9.7

To get oil or gas from deep rock by forcing high-pressure water and chemicals into the rock to break it

describes the same high-pressure fluid injection without naming water or chemicals
to frack the land
vsto frac
  • Specialized
7.9

To get natural gas from under the ground by forcing water and chemicals into rocks

is broader and covers oil as well as natural gas

Surface Forms

frac infinitive
fracked past
fracked past participle
fracking present participle
fracs third person singular

Etymology

Frac as a verb comes from fracture, meaning 'to break', so to frac a well is to 'break' the rock by pushing fluid in under pressure to free oil or gas.