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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From 1940 to 1968, oil exploration in Saudi Arabia is what?
(a) Not successful.
(b) A failure.
(c) Extremely successful.
(d) Moderately successful.

2. A SPE paper says that the best approach to steadily increasing water cuts is to choke back what?
(a) A well's drilling depth.
(b) A well's rate of production.
(c) A well's purification efforts.
(d) A well's drilling speed.

3. What position does Abdullah Jumah hold in the Saudi Arabian oil company?
(a) C.F.O.
(b) C.O.O.
(c) C.O.M.
(d) C.E.O.

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

5. What has happened at the other giant oil fields in the world?
(a) They have peaked, then had sharp declines.
(b) They have peaked, and replacements have been found.
(c) They have peaked, then been brought back with new technology.
(d) They have peaked, and no more oil has been recovered.

6. Why must Saudi Arabia find and develop huge natural gas reserves, and soon?
(a) Their future development depends on it.
(b) Their people depend on it.
(c) Their economy depends on it.
(d) Their future role in the market depends on it.

7. The Shaybah field is located where?
(a) The Exhausted Quater.
(b) The Empty Quarter.
(c) The Eastern Quarter.
(d) The Shallow Quarter.

8. How has modern technology helped in predicting what oil reserves are present?
(a) It has developed means to find oil through satellites.
(b) It hasn't.
(c) It has enabled oil to be counted exactly.
(d) It has held estimates be closer to fact.

9. In the early days of oil exploration, natural gas was seen as what?
(a) A problem to overcome.
(b) A challenge.
(c) An indicator oil was nearby.
(d) Worthless.

10. What makes it unlikely that the papers presented to the SPE are exaggerations to make the authors look impressive?
(a) The details in the papers.
(b) The SPE screening process.
(c) The professionalism of the writers.
(d) The sheer volume of papers.

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

12. The information contained in the SPE papers confirms the uncertainty of Saudi Arabia's what?
(a) Current oil production.
(b) Efforts to find oil.
(c) Estimated oil reserves.
(d) Future oil finds.

13. Saudi Arabian officials are making impressive predictions about oil fields which have a history of what?
(a) Problems and poor performance.
(b) Hard to reach oil but large quantities.
(c) Easily excessible oil and high levels of purity.
(d) Poor quality and excessive quantities.

14. When free-flowing oil in Saudi Arabia ends, what is the only alternative to find oil?
(a) Cleanup efforts.
(b) Shale and surface drilling.
(c) Rehabilitation efforts.
(d) Secondary recovery efforts.

15. At the October 2003 SPE conference, how many papers were presented by Saudi Arabian authors?
(a) 12.
(b) 14.
(c) 17.
(d) 9.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. One paper, presented by a Saudi engineer, discusses how conventional analytical techniques are not accurately interpreting data from what type of wells?

3. Development of oil in Shaybah is what?

4. Who encourages the assumption that Saudi Arabia can continue to maintain its incredible level of oil production?

5. What has been found to replace the aging heavy producing oil fields in Saudi Arabia?

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