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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Instead of helping to recover more oil from older fields, technology has done what?
(a) Enabled oil to be recovered more purely.
(b) Enabled oil to be recovered from remote places.
(c) Enabled oil to be recovered without so much damage.
(d) Enabled oil to be recovered more quickly.

2. What phenomenon appears to be a part of the life cycle of all large oil fields regardless of their differences?
(a) The water/natural gas improvement phenomenon.
(b) The second life phenomenon.
(c) The peak/decline phenomenon.
(d) The decay phenomenon.

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

4. When Saudi Arabia began drilling just for natural gas, they encountered problems with sand and what?
(a) River water.
(b) Silicate crystals.
(c) Graphite.
(d) Saline water.

5. Some people suggest that exploration for oil in Saudi Arabia has been less than successful in recent years because of what?
(a) Lack of data.
(b) Lack of oil.
(c) Lack of effort.
(d) Lack of skilled engineers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the issues addressed by the Saudi Arabian papers at the October 2003 SPE conference?

2. Dr. Nansen Saleri heads what type of management group?

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

4. What evidence is there to indicate that Saudi Arabian oil fields will be different from the oil fields in the rest of the world?

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

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