[bestintxas]

I do wish you guys would stop using the spelling “fracking”

The word is fraccing as used in the oil industry.

The word was purposely changed by a NYT editor some time ago in order to make the work seem more onerous than it is.
It also reads more sinister, perhaps even dirty.

[thackney]

The word is fraccing as used in the oil industry.

I read a lot of oil/gas related news. I almost never see it written with two "C"s.

When you are looking for an accurate term, rather than the common one, use Fracturing.

http://www.halliburton.com/public/projects/pubsdata/hydraulic_fracturing/fracturing_101.html

[thackney]

For reference: the Oil & Gas Journal stopped using “Fraccing” in 2011 and continues to use “Fracking”. The also use “Fracing” even more commonly but that doesn’t pronounce even close to the right term.

http://www.ogj.com/topics/search?&q=fraccing&y=-188&x=-1195&sort=date

http://www.ogj.com/topics/search?&q=fracking&y=-229&x=-1195&sort=date

http://www.ogj.com/topics/search?&q=fracking&y=-229&x=-1195&sort=date

[thackney]

The word was purposely changed by a NYT editor some time ago in order to make the work seem more onerous than it is. It also reads more sinister, perhaps even dirty.

By the way, the Oil & Gas Journal was using the Term Fracking back in 1990, as can be seen in my links above.

[Nifster]

apologies… my ignorance knows no bounds. I will in the future refer to fraccing. thanks for the informative heads up