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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Saudi Arabian engineers present at the S.P.E. conferences?
(a) Production data.
(b) Advances in technology.
(c) Articles.
(d) Technical papers.

2. In 1990, what percentage of Berri's wells were shut down?
(a) 30 percent.
(b) 45 percent.
(c) 25 percent.
(d) 40 percent.

3. Who insists that Saudi Arabia will continue to be able to meet the demand for oil?
(a) Economic researchers.
(b) OPEC.
(c) Saudia Arabian government.
(d) The United States.

4. Who did the United States government ask to investigate Saudi Arabia's ability to meet global oil demands?
(a) The Heritage Institute.
(b) Congress.
(c) The GAO.
(d) M.I.T. researchers.

5. When the United States's oil production declined, who stepped in to become the world's leading oil producer?
(a) Iraq.
(b) Iran.
(c) Saudi Arabia.
(d) Bahrain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Socony-Vaccum became which company?

2. What is one technique used in retrieving oil that can impact the amount of oil eventually recovered?

3. When does the Middle East become associated with oil production?

4. Arab D Zone 2B is what type of formation?

5. With the drop of pressure in key fields, what production is increased in the wells?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the speculations about why OPEC stopped releasing field production data?

2. What did the G.A.O. report investigate, and what was its conclusion?

3. What has happened to oil fields that are similar, geographically and geologically, to Saudi Arabia's oil fields?

4. How has oil production changed since Saudi Arabia entered the ranks of top oil producers?

5. Why are estimated recovery figures highly inaccurate?

6. Why will super giants like Ghawar not be part of the secondary efforts in Saudi Arabia?

7. What happens to Saudi Arabia in the years prior to the 1970's, and why is it unusual?

8. What are some of the questions the decline of Saudi Arabian oil fields present to the world?

9. What does new technology and techniques enable to oil industry to do with aging fields?

10. What are some of the challenges the Saudi government faces due to their population explosion?

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