Flooding:
Given the fact that the intensive development consists in completely drilling an area according to some definite geometric pattern, whether ALL of the given below advantages of an intensive development over the line flood or other less systematic methods of flooding are ACCEPTABLE?
(A) concentration of development and operations in one area with a consequent reduction in capital and operating expenses;
(B) rapid depletion, which further reduces operating expenses and materially reduces interest charges;
(C) a more efficient flooding of the sand with a consequent increase in recovery.