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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how much does it cost to dispose of the water generated by oil production?
(a) $40 billion per month.
(b) $40 billion over the life of a well.
(c) $40 billion per year.
(d) $40 billion per week.

2. What is the name of one of the northern sites in the Ghawar oil field?
(a) Srultum.
(b) Shaylahum.
(c) Shadrum.
(d) Shedgum.

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

4. What is one of the most important uses of natural gas in Saudi Arabia today?
(a) To power the larger urban centers.
(b) To power the oil drills.
(c) To power desalination plants.
(d) To power remote medical clinics.

5. The super-giant oil fields cannot be part of the alternatives because what process, currently used there, makes them useless?
(a) Water injection programs.
(b) Multivariate drilling programs.
(c) Purification programs.
(d) Natural gas injection programs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hawtah Trend becomes the first oil produced outside of what?

2. The information contained in the SPE papers confirms the uncertainty of Saudi Arabia's what?

3. When does water injection become a permanent part of oil production at Abqaiq?

4. The geologists say that the Arab D Zone has eroded away over what period of time?

5. The Master Gas System used the natural gas to fuel what industry?

(see the answer key)

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