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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. Water is a natural part of the ________ process in oil fields.
(a) Decline.
(b) Development.
(c) Environmental.
(d) Recovery.

2. What title did Ahmed Zaki Yamani hold?
(a) Saudi Arabian defense minister.
(b) Saudi Arabian oil minister.
(c) Saudi Arabian economic minister.
(d) Saudi Arabian foriegn minister.

3. Simmons uses technical papers written for whom?
(a) The Society of Gasoline Engineers.
(b) The Society of Petroleum Engineers.
(c) The Society of Oil Engineers.
(d) The Society of Energy Engineers.

4. What kind of data surveys are used to help determine where to drill?
(a) Water data surveys.
(b) Oil data surveys.
(c) Seismic data surveys.
(d) Gas pressure data surveys.

5. What is the partnership called, that is formed to fund drilling and production in Saudi Arabia?
(a) Azaramco.
(b) Aramco.
(c) Noramco.
(d) Souamco.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Abqaiq oil field described by technical experts?

2. Who developed Parallel Oil, Water, and Gas Reservoir Stimulator?

3. What job does Matthew Simmons hold?

4. Water produced by oil drilling is approximately how much larger than the amount of oil produced?

5. At the time of writing this book, Saudi Arabia had produced how many barrels of oil in the past 17 years?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to prevent the development of the oil fields in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay?

2. Why are the facts in the SPE papers about Ghawar hard to ignore?

3. What kinds of modern technologies are used to search for oil?

4. What happens when primary recovery at an oil field is complete?

5. Why is using water to help maintain pressure in wells a curse?

6. What does the rush to increase production in the Saudi Arabian wells do to the wells?

7. What do the massive investments by Saudi Arabia in simulation technology indicate?

8. What is Saudi Arabia doing to search for alternative oil supplies?

9. Describe the water injection process and when it is used.

10. Why are the odds of discovering another giant oil field in Saudi Arabia slim?

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