Q: Jack-up rigs are used in drilling where water depth is less than

A: 700m

Q: Drill bit is a
A: Cutting tool

Q: Drill ship type drilling rigs are used to drill wells in the maximum water depths of up to
A: 10,000 ft

Q: Removing drilling cuttings from the bore hole is a part of the functions of
A: Circulation system

Q: X-mas tree is installed at the ____ of the well head

A: top

Q: Rotary system is used to

A: Rotate the drill string and bit

Q: ____ is preferred over electric motor to reduce electric power requirement

A: Combustion engine driver

Q: A ____ is an equipment device that applies mechanical energy to liquid

A: pump

Q: ____ engines use gas as fuel

A: Gas

Q: ____ are used to drive pumps and compressors

A: Power generators

Q: Porosity is a measure of
A:

Q: A Wild Cat is
A: The first well drilled into a possible hydrocarbon bearing structure

Q: Deterministic calculation of hydrocarbon volume in place assumes

A:

Q: Perforation is a completion phase during which

A: Flow paths from reservoir to the wellbore are created

EOR is defined as any method that increases oil production by using techniques or materials that are not part of normal
pressure maintenance or water flooding operations by
A: OR experts

Q: WAG is the abbreviation of

A: Water Alternating Gas

Q: Which of the following is not needed to produce an economic accumulation of oil and gas?
A: Rock deposited in marine condition

Q: The most common type of oil trap is

A: Anticline/stratigraphic trap
Q: In a trap containing oil, gas and water, the water is always
A: Below the oil, above the gas

Q: On what physical properties of rocks is seismic method based?

A: Density and elastic moduli

Q: What is the final product of the exploration stage?

A: Prospect map

Q: The source rocks that generate oil and gas are rich in organic mater. This organic matter comes from
A: The accumulation and decomposition of marine plankton at the bottom of deep oceans

Q: Oil and gas are stored in the subsurface, mainly in

A: Small pores within rocks, such as the spaces between sand grains, more than a thousand meters below ground level

Q: The figures for oil and gas reserves of a country, published in official documents correspond to
A: The volume of oil and gas that remains in the subsurface at the time of publication

Q: How do International Oil Companies obtain an exploration license?

A: By bidding in an open licensing round, by negotiating directly with the government authorities of a country, and by
acquiring other companies who already have exploration licenses

Q: Oil and gas are stored in the subsurface, mainly in

A: Small pores within rocks, such as the spaces between sand grains, more than a thousand meters below ground level

Q: The figures for oil and gas reserves of a country, published in official documents correspond to
A: The volume of oil and gas that can be recovered at the time of publication

Q: Which of the following is NOT a petroleum refining process?

A: Product blending

Q: What property plays a major role in separating products from crude oil?
A: Boiling point

Q: The THREE basic steps in refining are separation, conversion and

A: treatment

Q: In crude oil, what constitutes paraffin?

A: Straight chain single bond hydrocarbon

Q: The set of information about crude oil quality is called

A: An assay

Q: What is the main feedstock for petrochemical production

A: Ethylene

Q: Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS) is a petrochemical product for syhthetic

A: rubber

Q: An example of polyvinylchloride (PVC) is

A: chair

Q: One of the following initiatives is not the effort of petroleum industry in protecting the environment
A: Exploration and production
Q: One of the PETRONAS's triple bottom-line of corporate stability is
A: Shareholder value

Q: The Peak Curve theory is named after American geophysicist _____, who created a method of modeling the
production curve given an assumed ultimate recovery volume
A: M. King Hubbert

Q: Which on of the following air pollution tragedies is related to oil and gas industry?
A: Donora, Pennsylvania 1948

Q: Which one of the following techniques is NOT one of the Thermal Methods
A: FAWAG

Q: Tankers equipped with pressurized, refrigerated and insulated tanks are used to transport
A: Liquefied natural gas

Q: Oil pipelines are made from ____ tubes with inner diameter typically from 10 to 120 cm
A: Steel and copper

Q: Booster pumps are located along the oil-pipeline to maintain the pressure and keep the oil flowing usually flows at
speed of about
A: 1 to 6 m/s

Q: Pipelines are very often inspected and cleaned using

A: Pipeline inspection gauge (PIG)

Q: A tanker with a single outer shell between the product and the ocean is said to be
A: Single Hull

Q: Describe petroleum refining

A: It is a process of separating different products from the crude oil

Q: What is the main objective in petroleum refining?

A: To maximise production of transport fuels

Q: OPEC refused to ship oil to western countries that had supported Israel in the ____, which they fought against Egypt
and Syria in the 1973 energy crisis
A: Yom Kippur War

Q: Elasticity refers to how supply and demand respond to various factors. The elasticity for oil market is ____
A: inelastic

Q: Reserves are those quantities of petroleum claimed to be commercially recoverable by application of development
projects to known accumulations under defined conditions. Reserves must satisfy four criteria: they must be;
A: Discovered through one or more exploratory wells, recoverable using existing technology, commercially viable, and
remaining in the ground

Q: ____ include FPSO, FSO, FPS

A: Floating facilities

Q: ____ are used to transport gas from one place to another

A: Compressors

Q: Shale shaker removes

A: large drill cuttings

Q: ____ is used for the purpose of measuring volume of gas and oil
A: Metering device

Q: Which one of the following techniques is NOT considered as a secondary recovery process
A: gas cap drive

Q: The largest casing run inside a well is

A: surface casing

Q: SAGD is the abbreviation of

A: Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage

Q: ____ are used to clean and increase the pipeline efficiency

A: Cleaning pigs

Q: API Code 27 defines permeability as

A:

Q: BOP (blow-out preventers) is used to control

A: pressure

Q: Hydraulic fracturing is a well production optimization technique during which

A: a fracture is created in the formation which has limited production due to low permeability

Q: Crown block and travelling block are consisted in

A: hoisting system

Q: ____ is needed to be done after a casing string is run into well bore for the purpose of keeping the hole from
collapsing
A: Cementing process

Q: ____ is an important attribute of a flow meter

A: Viscosity/Temperature/Pressure/Accuracy

Q: Combustion of fossil fuel is the main factor of

A: Ozone layer depletion/Acid rain

Q: Some economists predict that a ____ will spur demand for alternate energy sources, such as coal or liquefied natural
gas temporarily since both are finite sources as well
A: Substitution effect

Q: During all EOR processes one or two variables of Darcy equation is manipulated. Which of the following is NOT one of
those variables?
A: Cross-sectional area to flow, viscosity, permeability, none of the above

Q: CO2 is one of the tertiary techniques which is also used to

A: produce zero CO2 electricity/mitigate excess atmospheric CO2/produce low CO2 electricity/all of the above