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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) Secondary recovery efforts.
(c) Shale and surface drilling.
(d) Cleanup efforts.

2. When Saudi Arabia began drilling just for natural gas, they encountered problems with sand and what?
(a) River water.
(b) Silicate crystals.
(c) Graphite.
(d) Saline water.

3. Since what year has there been very little data available to verify production levels in Saudi Arabia?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1979.

4. Development of oil in Shaybah is what?
(a) Complex and risky.
(b) Inexpensive but labor intensive.
(c) Technologically dependent and expensive.
(d) A sure thing.

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

6. Shaybah is located near Saudi Arabia's border with what nation?
(a) United Arab Emirates.
(b) Bahrain.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Iran.

7. 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.

8. Overproduction and what have contributed to an early decline in production in Russian oil fields?
(a) Damage to the surrounding areas.
(b) Civil wars.
(c) Poor management.
(d) Lack of technology.

9. One paper, presented by a Saudi engineer, discusses how conventional analytical techniques are not accurately interpreting data from what type of wells?
(a) Offshore wells.
(b) Shale wells.
(c) Surface wells.
(d) Horizontal wells.

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

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

12. Who printed in 2005 an article about Saudi Arabian oil fields facing challenges?
(a) The Economist.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) Newsweek.

13. The super-giant oil fields cannot be part of the alternatives because what process, currently used there, makes them useless?
(a) Natural gas injection programs.
(b) Multivariate drilling programs.
(c) Water injection programs.
(d) Purification programs.

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

15. What word characterizes the gas initiative in Saudi Arabia?
(a) Improvement.
(b) Recession.
(c) Disaster.
(d) Joy.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What kind of logic describes the black and white area of interpretation?

5. Who encourages the assumption that Saudi Arabia can continue to maintain its incredible level of oil production?

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