While just about everyone over the past five years has heard of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” as it has come to be called, not many people outside of the oil and gas industry know that the hydraulic fracturing process has been around since the 1950’s. This Forbes piece gives a little history of the process and the recent attention it has been given which you might find interesting.
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