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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one technique used in retrieving oil that can impact the amount of oil eventually recovered?
(a) Salt injectino.
(b) Water injection.
(c) Pressure injection.
(d) Gas injection.

2. Since when has Ghawar been yielding the bulk of Saudi Arabia's oil supplies?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1961.

3. When did the United States's oil production peak?
(a) 1990's.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1980's.
(d) 1970's.

4. Before drilling begins, a field's production rate and ________ ______ are calculated.
(a) Depletion curve.
(b) Devolution curve.
(c) Depreciation curve.
(d) Declining curve.

5. The information contained in the SPE papers confirms the uncertainty of Saudi Arabia's what?
(a) Future oil finds.
(b) Estimated oil reserves.
(c) Efforts to find oil.
(d) Current oil production.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Hawtah Trend discovered?

2. After the amount of oil in a place is estimated, what is estimated next?

3. What industry does Matthew Simmons specialize in?

4. When did the oil production in southern Ghawar shut down?

5. What did Saudi Arabian engineers present at the S.P.E. conferences?

(see the answer key)

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