English
Noun
hydraulic fracturing (uncountable)
- (oil industry) A technique in which a mixture of water and sand is forced down an oil well (or similar) in order to create fractures in the oil-bearing rock and thus release more oil.
2011 April 17, “Chemicals Were Injected Into Wells, Report Says”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 14 August 2022:The chemicals were used by companies during a drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, which involves the high-pressure injection of a mixture of water, sand and chemical additives into rock formations deep underground.
Synonyms
Translations
- Afrikaans: hidrobreking
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: haustura hidrauliko
- Catalan: fracturació hidràulica f, hidrofracturació f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 水力壓裂 / 水力压裂 (shuǐlì yāliè), 水力劈裂 (shuǐlì pīliè)
- Czech: hydraulické štěpení
- Finnish: vesisärötys (fi), frakkaus (fi)
- French: fracturation hydraulique (fr) f, hydrofracturation f, fracking (fr) m
- German: Hydraulic Fracturing n, Fracking (de) n, hydraulische Frakturierung f, hydraulisches Aufbrechen n, hydraulische Risserzeugung f, hydraulische Stimulation f
- Greek: υδραυλική θραύση f (ydravlikí thráfsi), υδραυλική ρωγμάτωση (el) f (ydravlikí rogmátosi)
- Indonesian: peretakan (id)
- Italian: fratturazione idraulica f
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 수압파쇄법 (suap'paswaebeop), 프래킹 (peuraeking)
- Polish: szczelinowanie hydrauliczne n
- Portuguese: fraturamento hidráulico m, fraturação hidráulica f, fratura hidráulica f
- Russian: гидравли́ческий разры́в пласта́ m (gidravlíčeskij razrýv plastá)
- Spanish: fracturamiento hidráulico m, fractura hidráulica f, fracturación hidráulica f
- Swedish: hydraulisk spräckning c
- Turkish: hidrolik kırma
- Vietnamese: nứt vỡ thuỷ lực
- Welsh: ffracio hydrolig m
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