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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) None.
(b) Oil purity levels.
(c) Geological evidence.
(d) Gravitation and magnetism study data.

2. How much money did Saudi Arabia invest in gas processing facilities?
(a) Billions of dollars.
(b) Millions of dollars.
(c) Hundereds of thousands of dollars.
(d) Hundreds of millions of dollars.

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

4. Why is the most accurate way to determine the true potential of a reserve rarely done?
(a) Takes too much time.
(b) Too few people know how to do it.
(c) Too many steps to take.
(d) Too expensive.

5. Dr. Nansen Saleri heads what type of management group?
(a) Rehabilitation management group.
(b) Reservoir management group.
(c) Cleanup management group.
(d) Reserve management group.

6. 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.

7. What kind of crisis will occur if Saudi Arabian oil production declines sharply?
(a) Global energy crisis.
(b) Global economic crisis.
(c) Global transportation crisis.
(d) Global food shortage.

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

9. When Abdullah Jumah was asked to allow outside auditors in to verify the field production data, what was his response?
(a) "We have our own auditors."
(b) "Why should we?"
(c) "No one understand Saudi oil better than Saudis."
(d) "Of course we will."

10. Where are some of the giant oil fields that are geographically and geologically similar to Saudi Arabian fields located?
(a) Oman.
(b) Israel.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Dubai.

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 In what year did geologists determine that the Arab D Zone has eroded away and been replaced by younger rock?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

12. Why must Saudi Arabia find and develop huge natural gas reserves, and soon?
(a) Their future role in the market depends on it.
(b) Their people depend on it.
(c) Their economy depends on it.
(d) Their future development depends on it.

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

14. If the estimates of Saudi Arabian oil reserves made in the 1970's were accurate, what is about to end?
(a) OPEC.
(b) Saudi Arabia's reign as global oil king.
(c) Foreign dependence on Saudi oil.
(d) Oil production in Saudi Arabia.

15. Saudi Arabian officials are making impressive predictions about oil fields which have a history of what?
(a) Problems and poor performance.
(b) Poor quality and excessive quantities.
(c) Easily excessible oil and high levels of purity.
(d) Hard to reach oil but large quantities.

Short Answer Questions

1. When can the true recoverability figures of an oil reserve be discovered?

2. What do the odds indicate about future oil discovery in Saudi Arabia?

3. What word characterizes the gas initiative in Saudi Arabia?

4. The super-giant oil fields cannot be part of the alternatives because what process, currently used there, makes them useless?

5. How has modern technology helped in predicting what oil reserves are present?

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