Are you sure about that? The info I keep finding says:
The first experimental treatment to “Hydrafrac” a well for stimulation was performed in the Hugoton gas field in Grant County, Kansas, in 1947 by Stanolind Oil.
In 1948, the Hydrafrac process was introduced more widely to the industry in a paper written by J.B. Clark of Stanolind Oil. A patent was issued in 1949, with an exclusive license granted to the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company (Howco) to pump the new Hydrafrac process. Howco performed the first two commercial fracturing treatments—one, costing USD 900, in Stephens County, Oklahoma, and the other, costing USD 1,000, in Archer County, Texas—on March 17, 1949,
Hydraulic Fracturing, History of an enduring technology
http://www.spe.org/jpt/print/archives/2010/12/10Hydraulic.pdf
Sorry Thack I got stuck on the fracing part, I lost an Uncle in the 20’s when the Nitro he was hauling to a well exploded, they never found him!