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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When free-flowing oil in Saudi Arabia ends, what is the only alternative to find oil?
(a) Rehabilitation efforts.
(b) Cleanup efforts.
(c) Shale and surface drilling.
(d) Secondary recovery efforts.

2. 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 are near.
(b) That the end of Saudi Arabia's oil days isn't the end of oil.
(c) That the end of Saudi Arabia's oil days means no more oil in the world.
(d) That the end of Saudi Arabia's oil days is bad for the Saudi people.

3. What phenomenon appears to be a part of the life cycle of all large oil fields regardless of their differences?
(a) The peak/decline phenomenon.
(b) The water/natural gas improvement phenomenon.
(c) The decay phenomenon.
(d) The second life phenomenon.

4. What is happening to non-OPEC oil production?
(a) It is peaking.
(b) It is on the rise.
(c) It is in decline.
(d) It doesn't exist.

5. When was Yerbin field discovered?
(a) 2003.
(b) 2001.
(c) 2002.
(d) 2000.

6. In what year did geologists determine that the Arab D Zone has eroded away and been replaced by younger rock?
(a) 1996.
(b) 2002.
(c) 1998.
(d) 2000.

7. How many new discoveries are on Saudi Arabia's official list of developments?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

8. The Master Gas System used the natural gas to fuel what industry?
(a) Biological industries.
(b) Chemical industry.
(c) Pyrotechnical industry.
(d) Transportation industry.

9. What makes it unlikely that the papers presented to the SPE are exaggerations to make the authors look impressive?
(a) The sheer volume of papers.
(b) The SPE screening process.
(c) The details in the papers.
(d) The professionalism of the writers.

10. A SPE paper says that the best approach to steadily increasing water cuts is to choke back what?
(a) A well's rate of production.
(b) A well's purification efforts.
(c) A well's drilling depth.
(d) A well's drilling speed.

11. Instead of helping to recover more oil from older fields, technology has done what?
(a) Enabled oil to be recovered from remote places.
(b) Enabled oil to be recovered more quickly.
(c) Enabled oil to be recovered more purely.
(d) Enabled oil to be recovered without so much damage.

12. "OOIP" refers to what?
(a) Original oil in position.
(b) Original oil in place.
(c) Original oil in plans.
(d) Original oil in planes.

13. What has been found to replace the aging heavy producing oil fields in Saudi Arabia?
(a) Offshore oil fields.
(b) New oil fields.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Natural gas fields.

14. According to the author, where does the future of Saudi Arabian oil production lay?
(a) In the oil left behind.
(b) In the neutral zone.
(c) In the offshore drilling areas.
(d) In natural gas production.

15. In the early days of oil exploration, natural gas was seen as what?
(a) Worthless.
(b) An indicator oil was nearby.
(c) A problem to overcome.
(d) A challenge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Nansen Saleri heads what type of management group?

2. Where are some of the giant oil fields that are geographically and geologically similar to Saudi Arabian fields located?

3. When Abdullah Jumah was asked to allow outside auditors in to verify the field production data, what was his response?

4. The geologists say that the Arab D Zone has eroded away over what period of time?

5. The Shaybah field is located where?

(see the answer keys)

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