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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the 1950's natural gas was seen as a useful product for what?
(a) Identifying problems in oil fields.
(b) Fueling oil drills.
(c) Keeping oil pure.
(d) Maintaining reservoir pressure.

2. When did Saudi Arabia establish the Master Gas System?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1973.

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

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 In what year did geologists determine that the Arab D Zone has eroded away and been replaced by younger rock?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

5. Who encourages the assumption that Saudi Arabia can continue to maintain its incredible level of oil production?
(a) International oil companies.
(b) International engineering companies.
(c) International drilling companies.
(d) International engery forecasters.

6. What is the most accurate way to determine the true potential of a reserve?
(a) Drill the first wells.
(b) Drill appraisal wells.
(c) Drill and see what happens.
(d) Drill and change the estimates based on production.

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

8. When it became clear that Saudi Arabia wasn't going to find enough natural gas to make processing it economically feasible, who did they reach out to?
(a) Western gas buyers.
(b) Western gas companies.
(c) Western oil companies.
(d) Western investors.

9. Many people think there is plenty of oil in Saudi Arabia but that the government limits exploration to control what?
(a) The people of Saudi Arabia.
(b) The market.
(c) The economy.
(d) U.S. foriegn policy.

10. The geologists say that the Arab D Zone has eroded away over what period of time?
(a) Millions of years.
(b) Tens of thousands of years.
(c) Hundereds of thousands of years.
(d) Thousands of years.

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

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

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

14. Where are some of the other giant oil fields in the world, besides Saudi Arabia?
(a) Germany.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Norway.
(d) Japan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who printed in 2005 an article about Saudi Arabian oil fields facing challenges?

2. Some people suggest that exploration for oil in Saudi Arabia has been less than successful in recent years because of what?

3. Some people believe that Saudi Arabia's interest in Shaybah is not desperation, but what?

4. The oil at Hawtah Trend is what?

5. The Shaybah field is located where?

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