Question

A rancher in Texas drills for water on her property and in the process, hits oil which squirts strongly from the ground. Within days a system is installed to capture the oil as it shoots up from the ground. This system of collecting oil represents _______. a) secondary oil recovery b) hydraulic fracturing c) primary oil recovery d) tertiary oil recovery

Answer 1

a) secondary oil recovery.

Step-by-step explanation:

Secondary oil recovery is used when the pressure inside the well is to high, being not possible to do a primary oil recovery.

To do this method, high pressure is needed, like this case because it says that ''squirts strongly''.

On the other hand, tertiary oil recovery is used when another method is not possible. Hydraulic fracturing or fracking, it's develop with a horizontal drilling, which is not the case.