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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did it take Saudi Arabia to increase production from three million barrels a day to eight million barrels a day?
(a) One year.
(b) Six months.
(c) Four years.
(d) Two and a half years.

2. The Shaybah field is located where?
(a) The Shallow Quarter.
(b) The Empty Quarter.
(c) The Eastern Quarter.
(d) The Exhausted Quater.

3. After the amount of oil in a place is estimated, what is estimated next?
(a) The amount of recoverable oil.
(b) The cost of recovering the oil.
(c) The purity of the oil.
(d) The selling price of the oil.

4. What is the name of one of the northern sites in the Ghawar oil field?
(a) Shaylahum.
(b) Srultum.
(c) Shedgum.
(d) Shadrum.

5. When does water injection become a permanent part of oil production at Abqaiq?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1963.
(c) 2000.
(d) 1988.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of data surveys are used to help determine where to drill?

2. In the 1950's natural gas was seen as a useful product for what?

3. Who was the first king of Saudia Arabia?

4. 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?

5. Experts estimate that more than what percent of Berri's oil will be unrecovered?

(see the answer key)

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