Talk:Hydraulic fracturing
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[edit] Frac
In my opinion, the term Frac is an abreviated form for Hydraulic Fracturing and is often used in less formal or conversational type discussions. Reservoir Fracturing is ambiguous in the sense that this term by itself can mean natural fractures in a reservoir. I have not heard it often (or ever except here) used to refer to hydraulic fracturing though.
Maybe these terms could be included into this page in a terminology section. But I would like to see a reference for the term Reservoir Fracturing first.
[edit] Move from Hydraulic fracture to Hydraulic fracturing
Does this seem reasonable? This article describes the technique of creating hydraulic fractures rather than the fractures themselves (see Fracture (geology) for a short article for this general topic). If there are no objections, I'll do this in the next few days. +mt 05:22, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merge Reservoir fracturing and Fracing
It would seem appropriate to merge these subjects into this article. "Fracing" is too industry and layman's terms, and "Reservoir fracturing" assumes that this technique is used for oil reservoirs, which is false. +mt 05:31, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Geology
Natural hydraulic fractures are one aspect of geology and geoscience. This page, as currently written, is mostly about industrial hydraulic fracturing. Some information about natural hydraulic fractures is given, but not much. So does it really fit into a geoscience project? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.65.211 (talk) 01:13, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
- You should see Fracture (geology) for natural fractures. (It is the first interwiki link on the page). +mt 03:09, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
