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["#","Question","Answer","Type","Category","Difficulty","Source","Comments"]
[1,"Cut mud, lost circulation, swabbing, improper hole fill-up during trips, and insufficient mud weight are all potential indicators of what?","A kick","Technical","Drilling & Completions","Low","Lake, Larry. W.: \"Drilling Engineering\", Richardson, TX, SPE, 2007, p.186"]
[2,"A porosity-resistivity crossplot is a convenient method for deriving formation water resistivity. Name one of the two commonly used crossplots.","1) Hingle Plot\n2) Pickett Plot.","Technical","Reservoir & \nFormation Evaluation","Medium","Dewan, John T.: \"Essentials of Modern Open-Hole Log Interpretation,\" PennWell Corp 1983. P 199-200."]
[3,"Name the two-phase flow correlation that was developed for vertical, upward flow and recommeded only for near-vertical wellbores.","Hagedorn and Brown","Technical","Production & Facilities","High","Economides, M., Hill, A., Ehlig-Economides, C.: \"Petroleum Production Systems,\" 1993, pp 155"]
[4,"What is the ratio of the mole fraction of a component in vapor phase to the mole fraction of the same component in liquid phase called?","K value","Technical","Production & Facilities","Medium","Surface Production Operations p. 688"]
[5,"A mud supported limestone with more than 10% grains is classified as what?","Wackestone","Technical","Geology","Medium","Boggs Jr., Sam: \"Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy\", Upper Saddle River, NJ, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p.173"]
[6,"A homogeneous gas reservoir that has been producing gas (but no water) yields the following plot.  What causes the curve to deviate upwards?","Water Influx","Technical","Reservoir & Formation Evaluation","Medium","Petroleum Engineering Handbook - Vol V, pg. 1021"]
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[7,"In 2011, BP celebrated an anniversary of its \"Statistical Review of World Energy”. How many years has it been in existence?",60,"Non-Technical","History","Medium","BP Energy Outlook 2030, written January 2011"]
[8,"Name this famous American oil well firefighter who became an expert in extinguishing and capping well blowouts. Notable jobs include \"Devil's Cigarette Lighter\", Piper Alpha, and Ekofisk Bravo.","Red Adair \n\n(accept Paul Neal Red Adair)","Non-Technical","People","Medium","http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2281867.stm"]
[9,"This oil field was discovered in 1948 in Saudi Arabia. Name this field, the largest conventional oil field in the world.","Ghawar","Non-Technical","Trivia","Low","Simmons, Matthew.  \"Twilight in the Desert - the coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy.\"  Hoboken, NJ. John Wiley & Sons. P.121."]
[10,"This field began experiencing subsidence problems in the 80s.  An important field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, name this field whose oil is offloaded by the Norpipe pipeline to the Teesside Terminal.","Ekofisk","Non-Technical","Geopolitics","Medium","http://www.eia.gov/countries/cab.cfm?fips=NO"]
[11,"What is China's share of global energy consumption?","17.3 - 20.3 - 23.3%","Non-Technical","Trivia","High","BP Statistical Review of World Energy June 2011, pg 3"]
[12,"This energy company was recently asked to place a sum of $20B in escrow in the United States to cover the long term costs of their Gulf of Mexico blowout.  Name the company. ","BP ","Non-Technical ","Current Events ","Low","http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/feinberg-to-oversee-bps-20-billion-for-spill-claims/?scp=6&sq=20%20billion&st=cse "]

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["#","Question","Value","Answer(s)","Type","Category","Difficulty","Source","Comments"]
[1,"Name three basic types of decline curves.","20 points","Exponential, Hyperbolic, Harmonic","Technical","Reservoir & \nFormation Evaluation","Low","Practical Enhanced Reservoir Engineering p. 388"]
[2,"Name the two types of displacement in oil-well pumps","10 points each","Positive, Dynamic","Technical","Production & Facilities","Low","Petroleum Production Systems p. 551"]
[3,"CALCULATION:  An aqueous solution has a hydrogen ion concentration of 1 x 10^-8 mol/L.  What is the pH of this substance and is it basic or acidic?","10 points each","8 and basic.  Also acceptable: 8 and alkaline","Technical","Calculation","Low","AL, ADAM. Applied Drilling Engineering.  Richardson, TX: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1986.  p.45"]
[4,"MWD is often used to measure inclination and azimuth while extending a wellbore.  In order to do this, non-magnetic drill collars must be used.  Name four different materials non-magnetic drill collars may be made of.","5 points each","K Monel 500 Alloy (also acceptable: copper/nickel alloy), Chrome/nickel steels, Austenitic steels, copper beryllium bronzes","Technical","Drilling & Completions","High","Bourgoyne, Adam T. Applied Drilling Engineering. Richardson, TX: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1986. Print. P. 389"]
[5,"CALCULATION: A capillary tube is filled with a liquid-gas column.  Due to adhesion, the liquid will experience an upward force. If the gas-liquid surface tension is 25 dynes/cm, the cosine of the contact angle is 0.637, and the radius of the capillary tube is 10^-4 cm, what is the upward force on the liquid?","20 points","Fup = (2*pi*r)*(surface tension)*(cosine contact angle)\n=2*pi*10^-4   *   25   *   0.637\n=0.01 dynes","Technical","Calculation","Medium","Bourgoyne, Adam T. Applied Drilling Engineering. Richardson, TX: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1986. Print."]
[6,"Name the law stating that lithologies that conformably overlie one another must have accumulated in adjacent depositional environments.","20 points","Walther's Law","Technical","Geology","High","SLB, Oil Field Glossary,\nhttp://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=Walther%27s%20law"]
[7,"In 1926 at the American Petroleum Institute conference in Los Angeles 3 men, Armais Arutunoff, Samual VanWert, and Clyde Alexander, joined together to pioneer this type of artificial lift, name it.","20 points","ESP (Electric Submersible Pump)","Non-Technical","History","High","Petroleum Engineers Handbook 2007 Vol. 4, p.625"]
[8,"CALCULATION: An undersaturated reservoir at 3800 psia initial reservoir pressure has a bubble point pressure of 2800 psia.  The initial oil formation volume factor is 1.35 RB/STB.  After depleting to 3150 psia, the oil formation volume factor is 1.37 RB/STB.  What is the oil compressibility, in micro-sips to one decimal place, at 3150 psia?","20 points","22.8 usips\n\nco = [(Bo - Boi) / Boi] / ?P \nco = [(1.37 - 1.35) / 1.35] / (3800-3150)","Technical","Calculation","High","Petroleum Production Systems, Economides, 1994, p194"]
[9,"After its first five years of existence, on September 1, 1965, OPEC moved headquarters. Name the original and current locations of OPEC's headquarters, respectively.","10 points each","Original - Geneva, Switzerland\nCurrent - Vienna, Austria","Non-Technical","Geopolitics","Medium","http://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/about_us/24.htm"]
[10,"Name the theory of petroleum generation in which petroleum is thought to have formed from hydrocarbons trapped inside the earth’s crust while the earth was forming.","20 points","Abiogenic theory","Technical","Geology","High","A Glossary of Petroleum Engineering Terms, George E. King"]
[11,"Name 2 principles through which heat can be transferred.","10 points each","1) Conduction \n2) Convection \n3) Radiation","Technical","General Engineering","Low","Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, Cengel Boles"]
[12,"Name four of the five types of reservoirs by fluid type.","5 points each","Black/dead/non-volatile oil reservoirs. Volatile/live oil reservoirs. Condensate reservoirs. Wet gas reservoirs. Dry gas reservoirs.","Technical","Reservoir & \nFormation Evaluation","Low","Ertekin, Turgay, Abou-Kassem, Jamal, King, Gregory.:\"Basic Applied Reservoir Simulation\", SPE Textbook Series Vol. 7. 2001. P. 334"]