Toss Up Questions

1) The fractional contribution of a drive mechanism to total production indicates the relative
strength of a particular drive mechanism. What is the name of this ratio?

Drive Index

2) The analysis of pressure changes over time, especially those associated with small variations
of volume of a fluid, is called what as it is often related to well testing?

Pressure Transient Testing

3) Its products are sold under brand name ENEOS, which is also the name used for its service
stations. This companys headquarters is located at Tokyo, Japan. What is this company name
called?

JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation

4) At one time all land masses were connected into one piece and began to split apart 200
million years ago. What are the names of 2 continents that split after Pangea?

Laurasia and Gondwanaland

5) One of the drilling fluids is called EBM. What does it stand for?

Ester Based Mud

6) What decade saw the nationalization of Venezualas oil industry?

1970s
7) This artificial system uses a helical screw rotar to form a travelling sealed cavity?

Progressive cavity pump

8) The 2nd and 3rd largest oil fields in the world according to Forbes are West Qurna and
Majnoon. Where are they located?

Iraq

9) The crew member on a rotary drilling rig responsible for the care and operation of drilling
engine. Who is he?

Motorman

10) Of the 12 OPEC member countries, which country had the least proven oil reserves at the
end of 2010

Ecuador

11) What operation is conducted while drilling to detect the pressure transition, and safely set
casing in the transition zone to maximize well bore strength

Casing or pressure hunt

12) What is the term used to describe crude oil before gas has been separated from the liquid?

Live Oil
13) In 2010 US consumed roughly 19 million barrels of oil per day making it the largest consumer
in the world, with china coming in second. What country consumed the third highest?

Japan

14) Which chemical is almost always used to alter mud pH level while drilling?

Lime

15) Name the largest importer of LNG

Japan

16) The secondary stage of recovery from a reservoir involves injecting what possible substances
into a reservoir in order to push the hydrocarbons into the wellbore?

Water or gas injection

17) This is one kind of perforating methods that the explosion of a shaped charge is essentially a
jet of high-energy gases and particles, what is it called?

Jet perforating

18) What is ASSE stands for?

American Society of Safety Engineers

19) Name the term that is defined as the ratio of stress to strain
 Bulk Modulus

20) The molten rock in the Earth that can either rise to the surface a lava and form extrusive
igneous rock or cool with the Earth to form plutonic igneous rock. What is this called?

Magma
 Bonus Question

1) List out 3 data that can be obtained from special core analysis

- Porosity and permeability at elevated confining stress.

- Capillary pressure.

- Wettability and relative permeability.

- Electrical properties such as formation factor and resistivity index.

- Mechanical rock properties such as compressibility.

- Waterflood sensitivity for injectivity and well performance.

2) During the burial of sediments, the increase in temperature results in a progressive change in
the composition of kerogen. There are three successive stages of kerogen evolution. What
are these 3 stages called?

- Diagenesis

- Catagenesis

- Metagenesis

3) Natural gas containing chemical impurities, a notable hydrogen sulfide (H2S) or other sulfur
compounds that make it extremely harmful to breathe even small amount; a gas with
disagreeable odor resembling that of rotten eggs. What is the type of this gas?

Sour Gas

4) Name four equipment involved in Conventional & Diamond Coring.

- Ball

- Rabbit
 - Outer barrel

- Stabilizer optional

- Inner barrel

- Core catcher

- Core bit

- Diamond core bit

5) List out three types of plate boundaries.

- Divergent plate boundary

- Convergent plate boundary

- Transform plate boundary

6) Before year 1992, this company name is BP Canada Ltd. Prior. Their headquarters is located
at Calgary, Alberta, Canada. What is the name of this company?

Talisman Energy Inc.

7) To bring a well into production What is the API term for the statement?

Kick-of

8) There are three basic forces which the casing is subjected to. Name all three forces.

Collapse, Burst, and Tension force.

9) After its five years of existence, on September 1, 1965, OPEC moved its headquarter. Name
the original location of OPECs headquarter.

Geneva, Switzerland

10) What is the fundamental dimension of a Stoke, and what property does it measure?

Length2/time,,,,, Kinematic viscosity

11) A highly permeable zone in the reservoir rock through which secondary fluids flow bypassing
oil in other parts of the reservoir. Name this zone.

Thief Zone

12) Name 4 major groups of substances that are present in petroleum

 - Paraffins

- Naphthenes

- Aromatics

- Non-hydrocarban

13) What does LNGC stand for?

Liquefied Natural Gas Carrier

14) Give four out of six diagenetic processes

- Weathering and Erosion

- Transportation

- Compaction

- Cementation

- Recrystallization

- Lithification

15) The largest oil refinery is located in which country?

India

16) How many times per year is SPE magazine The Way Ahead is published?

Three times.

17) List out four common methods of artificial lift

- Beam pumping

- Submersible pumping

- Gas lift

- Hydraulic pumping
18) This is a kind of chemical injected into the wellbore to prevent or minimize paraffin deposition. Name
it.
Paraffin inhibitor

19) When it comes to the size of the proppant, for example 100 mesh. What does mesh refer to?

The number of holes in the length or area of 1 inch

20) A wooden or steel structure built over a well site to provide support for drilling equipment
and a tall mast for raising and lowering drill pipe and casing. What is this structure called?

Derrick
Toss Up

1) It is the layer of concentrated solids from drilling mud that forms during natural filtration on
the sides of the borehole. What is it called?

Filter cake / wall cake / mud cake

2) The organic content of a rock that is extractable with organic solvents is known as what?

Bitumen

3) Carbonate sedimentary rock composed of mostly calcite is known as what?

Limestone

4) Which recovery technique is the most suitable in producing crude oils with API gravity less
than 20?

Thermal Recovery

5) Productivity Index for flow is described in what dimension?

Volume/time-pressure

6) Johanas Kuan was a Dutch scientist who discovered this phenomenon related to condensate
reservoir. What is it?

Retrograde reservoir.

7) Name the special tool used by the rig crew to prevent the drill bit from turning.

Bit Breaker.

8) What do you call the value of a petroleum asset by the end of its useful life?

Salvage value

9) A process of interpreting a combination of measurements taken inside a wellbore to detect

and qualify oil and gas reserves in the rock adjacent to the well. What is this process called?

Formation Evaluation.

10) What term is used for the owners share of production or revenues remained by government
of freehold mineral rights holders?

Royalty
11) During 2008, which country boasted the highest daily production rate?

Russia

12) Barite is used to weigh up drilling fluid. What is chemical formula of Barite?

Ba2SO4

13) The measure of heat energy to raise the temperature of 1 pound of water by 1 degree
Fahrenheit is known as what?

BTU

14) According to standard geologic time scale, what epoch are we currently in?

Halocene

15) How many cubic feet in 1 barrel of oil?

5.6 cubic feet

16) Any object accidently left in the wellbore during drilling or workover operations, which must
be removed before work can proceed. What is it called?

Fish

17) A storage place for the Kelly is known as what?

Rath hole

18) Which university first introduced a Petroleum Engineering degree course in 1915?

University of Pittsburgh

19) This device is used to measure the viscosity of fluid

Viscometer

20) What pressure and temperature changes lead to the formation of natural gas hydrates?

Increase in pressure and decrease in temperature

Bonus Questions

1) Name the organization from which SPE began as a subcommittee

AIME: American Institute of Mineral Engineers

2) Name three kinds of unconventional gas resources

- Coal Bed Methane

- Tight Sands

- Gas Shales

3) LNG is stored near to atmospheric pressure, at what temperature is LNG stored?

-162 Celsius / -260 Fahrenheit

4) It is used to detect permeable beds and its thickness, locating their boundaries and
permitting correlation of such beds, to determine formation water resistivity and to
indicate qualitative of bed shaliness. Hat log is that?

Spontaneous potential log/ self-potential log (SP log)

5) Where is the main corporate headquarter of HESS corporation?

New York

6) Name the completion method which uses limited entry to a formation in order to stay
away from unwanted reservoir fluids?

Partial completion

7) A device designed for use in detecting seismic energy in the form of pressure changes
under water during marine seismic acquisition. These devices are combined to form
streamers that are towed by seismic vessels or deployed in a borehole. What is this
device?

Hydrophone

8) Name the two ions involved in dolomization.

Calcium and Magnesium

9) Name two types of nuclear log

- Gamma ray log

- Neutron log

- Formation density log

10) Accelerator is one of the types of cement additives which is used to accelerate the
cement hardening process. Name four commonly used accelerators

- calcium chloride

- Sodium chloride (Salt)

- Sea water

- Sodium Silicate

- Potassium Chloride

- Gypsum

11) This term is used to describe the pressure required to induce cracks in a rock at a given
depth.

Fracture Gradient

12) Where is headquarter of OMV?

Vienna

13) Based on the Udden-Wentworth classification of grain size, what lies between silt and
pebbles?

Sand

14) What is the API gravity of the benchmark crude west Texas intermediate

39.6

15) It is a principle which states that most layers of sediment are deposited in a nearly
horizontal layer. What is it?

Principle of original horizontality

16) A layer or body of rock that cannot be detected by seismic refraction, typically because
its velocity is lower than that of the overlying rocks. What is this layer called?

Blind zone/ hidden zone/ shadow zone

17) Rosneft is an integrated oil company owned by which country?

Russia

18) Name 4 major world events that have led to oil crisis in the year of 1973, 1978, 1980 and
1990

The Arab oil embargo in 1973,

The Iranian revolution in 1978,

 The Iran/Iraq war in 1980,

The Arab (Persian) Gulf War in 1990

19) A fluid flow process in which the saturation of the wetting phase increases and the
nonwetting phase saturation decrease is defined?

Imbibition

20) The first oil refinery in the world was built in which county?

Scotland in UK
Toss Up Questions

1) This is the act of pulling the drill string out of hole or putting it in the hole

Tripping

2) Name the Colonel who was the first person to drill and find oil in 1895?

Colonel Edwin L. Drake

3) Name the three components measured at any given point in a well bore in order to
determine position in a directionally drilled well.

Depth, Inclination, Azimuth

4) What is the standard length of drill pipe?

30 feet

5) Hydrates are ice like structures made of what?

Gas (CH4) and water

6) An uncontrolled discharge of formation fluid out of the wellbore

Blowout

7) Identify the type of well that is equipped with pressure monitoring systems to
determine the extent of propagation of the pressure transient from the producing
wells into the reservoir.

Observation well

8) In drilling, this is the term used to describe the height of a fluid column.

Hydrostatic Head

9) This is defined as the pressure in the wetting phase minus the pressure in the non-
wetting phase.

Capillary pressure

10) This type of system is used to steer the drill bit while the pipe is rotating. What is it?

Rotary steerable system

11) Earth is divided into three major layers. Name these major layers.

Crust, Mantle, Core

12) 80% of rock that we drilled today is claystone. Therefore certain chemicals, i.e. salt
need to be added into the mud system (WBM) to combat the clay from swelling.
Which salt is normally used in drilling to combat the swelling of clay?
 KCl (potassium chloride)

13) A casing string that does not extend to the top of the wellbore, but instead is
anchored or suspended from inside the bottom of the previous casing string is
known as

Liner

14) Name the log that uses the variation in amplitude of an acoustic signal travelling
down the wall between transmitter and a receiver

Cement bond log

15) The mesh of this device must be chosen carefully to match the size of the solids in
the mud. It consists of a series of trays with vibrating screens which allow the mud to
pass through but retain the cuttings. What is it?

Shale shaker

16) What is the name of the theory the present is the key to the past which was
proposed by James Hutton and is considered one of the important theories in the
geological studies

Uniformitarianism

17) Name the largest oil producer of Africa.

Nigeria

18) An in-situ combustion technique in which water is injected simultaneously or

alternately with air into a formation is known as?

Wet combustion

19) When gas passes through the restrictions, it will expand and lead to a temperature
change. Whats the name for this phenomenon?

Joule-Thomson Efect

20) This is the gas mainly composed of propane and butane, which has been liquefied at
low temperature and moderate pressure. The gas is obtainable from refinery gases
or after the cracking process of crude oil. What is this type of gas is called?

LPG (liquefied petroleum gas)

 Bonus Questions

1) What is the name of city which was the site of the first successfully drilled oil
well in 1859?

Titusville (Pennsylvania)

2) Halliburton is one of the companies that have dual headquarters, name both
locations of the headquarters?

Houston (Texas, USA) and Dubai (UAE)

3) The API degree of water is

10

4) Formation compressibility can have a significant impact on reservoir

performance. Subsidence has significant environmental impact. List out three
types of compressibility:

- Matrix compressibility

- Pore compressibility

- Bulk compressibility

5) How many countries are members in OPEC?

13

6) A near-surface, possibly unconsolidated layer of low seismic velocity. The base of

this layer commonly coincides with the water table and a sharp increase in
seismic velocity. This layer also typically has air filled pores. What is this layer?

Weathered layer

7) What is the name of the space between the drillstring and open hole or
drillstring and cased hole in the wellbore?

Annulus

8) The EOR process can be divided into three categories, what are they?

- Chemical

- Thermal

- Miscible

9) The percent of total volume of rock that consists of connecting pores or

interstices. The part of rock that is capable of holding a fluid (oil, water, gas).
What is it called?
 Efective porosity

10) It is the study of life in past geologic time, based on fossil plants and animals.
What is it?

Paleontology

11) State two types of steady flow of real fluid exist?

-laminar flow

-turbulent flow

12) Which one has highest conductivity and lowest resistivity? Fresh water, Gas,
Rock, Salt water or Oil?

Salt water

13) Which tubing accessory is used to reduce the efect of internal erosion caused by
turbulent flow?

Flow couplings

14) Mention the 5 countries that established OPEC.

Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi, Venezuela

15) Gamma Ray log tools are normally attached in LWD tools while drilling a well. If
the scale of gamma ray 0 to 200, and the gamma ray result showing deflection to
the right, towards 200, What type of formation/rock will it be?

Shale stone

16) Name the location where oil and gas flow naturally to the surface?

Seeps

17) The widely used method for analysing the pressure and future performance of
production wells especially in low permeability gas reservoir is known as?

Decline curve analysis

18) A large-diameter pipe that connects the subsea BOP stack to a floating surface
rig to take mud returns to the surface. What is this pipe called?

Riser

19) Using a real time data a driller can calculate the amount of energy required per
unit volume of rock drilled in kilo-pound force per square inch. Name this
parameter.

Mechanical Specific Energy

20) In standard SI units what is the specific heat capacity of water at room
temperature?

4.1813 J/(g*K)