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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one assumption that can be used to bring a brighter future to Saudi Arabia's oil production?
(a) That Saudi oil reserves won't suffer the same decline as the rest of the world.
(b) That Saudi's are hiding the true number of oil fields they have found.
(c) That over production means there are new oil fields to be found.
(d) That natural gas is more important to Saudi Arabia than oil.

2. It has become far more _________ _________ to maintain the high rate of oil production in Saudi Arabia.
(a) Capital intensive.
(b) Technologically intensive.
(c) Labor intensive.
(d) Equipment intensive.

3. By using the history of other fields around the world, the author hopes to make what point?
(a) That the end of Saudi Arabia's oil days isn't the end of oil.
(b) That the end of Saudi Arabia's oil days means no more oil in the world.
(c) That the end of Saudi Arabia's oil days are near.
(d) That the end of Saudi Arabia's oil days is bad for the Saudi people.

4. What is Parallel Oil, Water, and Gas Reservoir Stimulator?
(a) Reservoir preservation technology.
(b) Reservoir damage-control technology.
(c) Reservoir purification technology.
(d) Reservoir stimulation technology.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Overproduction and what have contributed to an early decline in production in Russian oil fields?

2. If Saudi Arabian production levels decline sharply, what will they affect?

3. Development of oil in Shaybah is what?

4. How many new discoveries are on Saudi Arabia's official list of developments?

5. The crude oil coming from Saudi Arabia contains liberal amounts of what, which makes it less pure?

(see the answer key)

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