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(oil drilling) Hydraulic fracturing.

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, date=2009-06-25 , first= , last= , author=Ed Quillen , authorlink= , coauthors= , title=Fracking, fracing or fraccing? , newspaper=High Country News , city=Paonia, CO , publisher= , quotee= citation , page= , passage=I have also heard from geologists who say they spell it fraccing'' , and one who says it's ''fracting with a silent t. }}

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, date= , year=2012 , first= , last= , author=Queensland Government , authorlink= , title=Hydraulic fracturing (fraccing) in CSG wells , site=Department of Environmental and Resource Management citation , page= , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-01-28 , passage=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. }}

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, date=2012-01-03 , first= , last= , author=Ralph Benko , authorlink= , coauthors= , title=Daniel Yergin's The Quest , newspaper=Forbes , city= , publisher= , quotee= citation , page= , passage=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. }}

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, year=2014 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Alireza Bahadori , title=Natural Gas Processing: Technology and Engineering Design , chapter= citation , genre=Technology and Engineering , publisher=Gulf Professional Publishing , isbn=9780124202047 , page= , passage=Fraccing fluids contain proppants that forced into the natural fractures of fissures of the rock under pressure. }}