How to Use fracking in a Sentence

fracking

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• No part of the industry suffered more than the service companies that do the drilling, fracking and other workaday tasks of the oil field.
  — Jennifer Hiller, San Antonio Express-News, 2 May 2018
• Thanks to the fracking revolution, the United States is now among the world’s largest oil producers.
  — Evan Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• The goal here is more workmanlike: to assemble the acreage that contains the most oil and to execute the drilling and fracking plan that will pull it out at the lowest cost.
  — Jeffrey Ball, Fortune, 25 May 2018
• Yet, thanks to the fracking revolution, the United States is now one of the world’s biggest producers of oil.
  — Evan Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018
• Kopser supports fracking as a realistic bridge to clean energy, an idea Wilson rejects.
  — Jasper Scherer, San Antonio Express-News, 4 May 2018
• Shale companies’ profitability may also be threatened by rising costs for the immense amounts of sand and water needed for fracking.
  — Bradley Olson, WSJ, 17 May 2018
• The former Cleveland mayor wanted to ban fracking as a method for oil and gas drilling and eschewed corporate donations in fundraising.
  — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 8 May 2018
• The trick was to combine horizontal drilling, enabling each well to fan out across a wide area, with industrial-scale hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to crack up the innards of tight rock.
  — Jeffrey Ball, Fortune, 25 May 2018
• For all the technological marvels of this great fracking boom, gender mores occasionally date to the nineteenth century.
  — Longreads, 23 Apr. 2018
• The heavy cross-state water sales come amid an unprecedented fracking boom in the northwestern Texas counties near the New Mexico border.
  — Jay Root, star-telegram, 7 June 2018
• But a shortage of truckers to transport crude, as well as the sand and water used in fracking, is threatening to slow a drilling boom that has helped lift U.S. oil production this year to all-time highs.
  — Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 8 June 2018
• Environmentalists say fracking helps maintain the primacy of fuels that contribute to climate change.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Apr. 2018
• In few places is that tension more evident than along Colorado’s Front Range, where a fracking boom is colliding with a population explosion.
  — Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 31 May 2018
• There's a lot of good jobs that come to the fracking industry.
  — NBC News, 25 Oct. 2020
• The plan does not call for an outright ban on coal or fracking.
  — Amy McKeever, National Geographic, 17 Aug. 2020
• Again, O’Keefe was not asking about a new fracking well in Wyoming.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2021
• Or the oil and gas industry, which has prospered due to the fracking boom?
  — National Geographic, 4 Feb. 2020
• The governor said a draft of the study on steam fracking would be complete soon.
  — Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2020
• Has a boom in polar fracking tipped the Earth off its axis?
  — Ann Hornaday, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2019
• Aera received 49 of the 69 fracking permits that the state has approved this year.
  — Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• Early in the fracking boom, lines of water trucks idled outside the plants’ gates.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2021
• The end of the investigation is that fracking has not been proven to be the cause of any of these problems.
  — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
• The way to read the deal is as a bet on U.S. shale fracking and hedge against the left’s anti-fossil fuels policies.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2023
• Gilmer likened the fracking industry to the stock market.
  — Claire Goodman, Houston Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2020
• Those included projects for fracking and for drilling in the Arctic.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
• The fracking boom was the biggest energy story around the world.
  — Russell Gold, WSJ, 29 June 2018
• The Post-Gazette’s Anya Litvak writes that investment in fracking and the like isn’t likely to stop any time soon.
  — Seth A. Richardson, cleveland.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• Biden has not called for an end to fracking, the process used in much of the United States to extract shale oil and natural gas.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
• Just a dozen new fracking permits have been issued statewide this year.
  — Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2021
• The area is known for fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, a process that injects water at high pressure into the ground to extract oil.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024