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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hawtah Trend becomes the first oil produced outside of what?
(a) The Southern Province.
(b) The Western Province.
(c) The Eastern Province.
(d) The Northern Province.

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

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

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

5. When it became clear that Saudi Arabia wasn't going to find enough natural gas to make processing it economically feasible, who did they reach out to?
(a) Western gas buyers.
(b) Western investors.
(c) Western gas companies.
(d) Western oil companies.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Saudi Arabia begin drilling for natural gas not associated with oil?

2. Instead of helping to recover more oil from older fields, technology has done what?

3. Why must Saudi Arabia find and develop huge natural gas reserves, and soon?

4. How many oil fields does Hawtah Trend consist of?

5. Who printed in 2005 an article about Saudi Arabian oil fields facing challenges?

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