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Philip Lewis's avatar

"Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, was developed in the 1990s to extract natural gas from previously inaccessible shale deposits.1"

Hydraulic fracturing was developed in the 1940s primarily to bypass wellbore damage. It was first performed around 1948 in the Kansas Hugoton field by Pan American Petroleum. Funny how overnight success often requires decades of slow progress.

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TonyZa's avatar

Fracking and vapes are some of the most important and underrated innovations of the last few decades.

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