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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A Society of Petroleum Engineers paper written in 2004 describes what type of pump project as being successful in reviving several of Abqaiq's dead zones?
(a) Multiphase pump.
(b) Manual seperator pump.
(c) Manual injection pump.
(d) Multiple pump.

2. What evidence is there to indicate that Saudi Arabian oil fields will be different from the oil fields in the rest of the world?
(a) Geological evidence.
(b) Gravitation and magnetism study data.
(c) Oil purity levels.
(d) None.

3. What job does Matthew Simmons hold?
(a) Federal Reserve Chairman.
(b) Oil speculator.
(c) Investment banker.
(d) Company CEO.

4. When was the first significant oil find in the Middle East?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1938.

5. By using the history of other fields around the world, the author hopes to make what point?
(a) That the end of Saudi Arabia's oil days isn't the end of oil.
(b) That the end of Saudi Arabia's oil days means no more oil in the world.
(c) That the end of Saudi Arabia's oil days are near.
(d) That the end of Saudi Arabia's oil days is bad for the Saudi people.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does water injection become a permanent part of oil production at Abqaiq?

2. The information contained in the SPE papers confirms the uncertainty of Saudi Arabia's what?

3. Overproduction and what have contributed to an early decline in production in Russian oil fields?

4. How much money did Saudi Arabia invest in gas processing facilities?

5. What is the name of one of the northern sites in the Ghawar oil field?

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