Don't worry, we were doing nuclear fracking back in the days. Everything that could work has been tried for oil and gas exploration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gasbuggy

Regarding drilling operations that destroy value: you're forgetting that drilling is 1D while oil fields are 3D (technically quasi-2D with horizontal dimensions 100x to 1000x larger than vertical dimensions). If your drilling messes up everything in a 10 meter radius from the drill string, you don't care.