How to Use hydraulic fracturing in a Sentence

hydraulic fracturing

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  • In flow back, liquids used in hydraulic fracturing are brought to the surface.
    — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Pennsylvania is one of the top states in the nation for hydraulic fracturing.
    — Fox News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • In one breath, the future President promised again not to ban hydraulic fracturing.
    — David Blackmon, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The gas has been tapped via the controversial hydraulic fracturing method.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2013
  • The natural gas industry boomed a decade ago has hydraulic fracturing — known as fracking — and the new methods of drilling reduced the cost of the energy source.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 22 June 2018
  • The mine, which will take about seven months to complete, will supply sand for hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas extraction, the company said.
    — Houston Chronicle, 12 June 2018
  • The massive natural gas field spans 17 North Texas counties and is where hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, got its start.
    — Dallas News, 26 May 2022
  • But then, there’s the fact that George Mitchell, who pioneered hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, claimed that Fuller’s ideas inspired him to work on the problem of resource scarcity.
    — Rebecca Onion, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2022
  • All are trends that had been underway for more than a decade, since the boom in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, began to increase production.
    — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Biden campaigned on a pledge to ban hydraulic fracturing on federal lands; killed off permits for the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office.
    — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Cuomo also won three North Country counties and Broome County — which has been the center of the hydraulic fracturing debate.
    — David Robinson, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Some reporters believe voters are so split on climate change and hydraulic fracturing in this state that his comment won’t move the needle for voters.
    — Salena Zito, Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2020
  • The reason the decline began to slow was hydraulic fracturing was being combined with horizontal drilling to usher in the shale oil boom.
    — Robert Rapier, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Sand used for hydraulic fracturing, for example, is in short supply.
    — Robert Rapier, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Unlocking the rock is the role of fracking, formerly called hydraulic fracturing.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021
  • That year roughly coincides with the boom in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which flooded the U.S. with cheap natural gas.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The method itself has been around for decades, but the more recent development is the pairing of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.
    — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2020
  • After a boom in hydraulic fracturing helped drive down energy prices, hydrogen took a back seat.
    — Ivan Penn, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, is a method of extracting natural gas from the ground.
    — Steve Devane, USA TODAY, 20 June 2020
  • Soon after winning a second term in 2014, Mr. Cuomo banned hydraulic fracturing in the state’s southern tier that lies atop the rich Marcellus Shale deposit.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2019
  • Railroads are now poised to order more equipment to keep up with rising shipments of commodities such as grain and the sand used in hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas.
    — Richard Clough, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2018
  • Thanks to innovations in hydraulic fracturing, the United States has been the world’s leading oil producer since 2017.
    — Ken Roberts, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • In the early 2010s, Pennsylvania enacted a state law that gave the oil and gas industry the right to commence hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, anywhere in the state.
    — Amber Polk, The Conversation, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Nor has there been any sign of a major move away from an increasingly controversial source of U.S. oil and gas: hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of shale rock.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2020
  • But once hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling techniques cracked open the shale gas market, those prices tumbled a year later to $4 per million BTUs.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Fracking — short for hydraulic fracturing, the process of extracting oil and gas embedded in rock deep underground — accounts for a small portion of the state's oil and gas production each year.
    — Adam Beam, Star Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Since the early 2000s, operators have used hydraulic fracturing to tap into the Barnett Shale and free the natural gas from surrounding rock.
    — Anna Kuchment, Dallas News, 25 July 2019
  • Types of fracking have been used for decades, but the term now usually refers to a specific technique called horizontal hydraulic fracturing.
    — Timothy Puko, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
  • There is no drilling or hydraulic fracturing remaining.
    — Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 23 June 2020
  • A little less than 15 years ago, the advent and widespread deployment of hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as fracking, changed the dynamics.
    — Justin Worland/houston, Time, 10 Mar. 2022

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