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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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 In what year did geologists determine that the Arab D Zone has eroded away and been replaced by younger rock?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

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

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

5. How much unexplored area is there in Saudi Arabia?
(a) Some.
(b) A lot.
(c) None.
(d) Very little.

6. The information contained in the SPE papers confirms the uncertainty of Saudi Arabia's what?
(a) Efforts to find oil.
(b) Estimated oil reserves.
(c) Current oil production.
(d) Future oil finds.

7. Oil in Saudi Arabia will not last ____________.
(a) Past the 22nd century.
(b) For more than a decade.
(c)
(d) Forever.

8. What kind of logic describes the black and white area of interpretation?
(a) Problematic logic.
(b) Logical logic.
(c) Clear logic.
(d) Fuzzy logic.

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

10. When was Hawtah Trend discovered?
(a) 1989.
(b) 2001.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1992.

11. 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.

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

13. When can the true recoverability figures of an oil reserve be discovered?
(a) When the reserve reaches its peak.
(b) When the reserve matures.
(c) When the reserve is shut down.
(d) When the reserve starts producing on a regular basis.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What position does Abdullah Jumah hold in the Saudi Arabian oil company?

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

3. One paper, presented by a Saudi engineer, discusses how conventional analytical techniques are not accurately interpreting data from what type of wells?

4. Where was the October 2003 SPE Annual Technical Conference held?

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

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