PETROBOWL QUESTIONS
1. Who is the CEO of Chesapeake Energy AS. Robert Lawler 2. Who is the CEO of Chevron AS. John S. Watson 3. Which company has the world's highest oil production AS. Saudi Aramco, 12.5 MMBBLD 4. Which company has the world's second highest daily oil production? AS. Gatzprom, 9.7MMBBLD 5. Which company has the world's third highest daily oil production? AS. National Iranian Oil Co 6. Which company has the world's fourth highest daily oil production? AS. ExxonMobil, 5.3 MMBBLD 7. Which company has the worlds's fifth highest daily oil production AS. PetroChina, 4.4 MMBBLD 8. CEO of Hilcorp AS. Jeffrey Hildebrand 9. What are 5 assumptions behind darcy flow? AS. Reynold's number less than 1 -No-slip boundary conditions -Single-phase flow -No chemical ineteraction between rock and fluid -Newtonian Fluid 10.What 10.What is the formula for effective porosity Volume (interconnected)/Volume(total) (interconnected)/Volume(total) 11.Formula 11.Formula for effective permeability? 12.Formula 12.Formula for Mobility Ratio? 13.Formula 13.Formula for rate during exponential decline? 14.What 14.What is an ESP? Who invented it? Where was it first successfully implimented? AS. Electronic Submersibile Pump; Armais Arutunoff, Kansas 15.Who 15.Who was the first woman SPE president, and in what year? AS. DeAnn Craig, 1998 16.How 16.How many countries are currently in SPE?
AS. 141 17.Current SPE membership number AS. 124,528, including more than 37,000 student members 18.In what year was SPE founded? AS. 1957 19.In what year did SPE split from AIME (American Institute of Mining Engineers)? AS. 1985 20.Who is the Current SPE President? Jeff Spath 21.Who is the 2015 SPE President? AS. Helge Hove Haldorsen 22.What is "The Way Ahead" AS. The SPE young professionals magazine published 3 times a year 23.What is the highest award that you can win as an SPE member? As. Honorary Member Award 24.What does "Segregated Flow" mean, and which factors determine the flow condition? As. This is when fluids are separated according to density and it becomes a factor when the gravity dominates the flow 25.What does the term "diffuse flow" mean and which factors determine this flow condition? As. A well-mixed flow where the fluids don't separate according to density 26.What is formation volume factor AS. Volume of fluid at reservoir conditions divided by volume of a fluid at standard conditions 27.Two main types of boundary conditions that are used to represent reservoir fluid production and injection? AS. 1) Bottom-hole-pressure-specified 2) Production-rate-specified 28.Which log provides a good measurement of the hydrogen and hydrocarbon in a formation? AS. Neutron
29.What are the three elements used as the source of natural gamma rays in sedemantary rocks? AS. Thorium, Uranium, Potassium 30.What is the physical law that gives the pressure drop in a fluid across a cylindrical tube, and it's assumptions? 31.Hagen Poisuelle Equation Assumptions AS. 1) Laminar 2) Viscous flow 3) Incompressible 4) Flow traveled is longer than the diameter of the cross-sectional area 32.Define Kinematic Viscosity AS. it's the dynamic viscosity divided by the density of the fluid 33.What is the process when the saturation of the wetting phase increases and the saturation of the nonwetting phase decreases AS. Imbibitation 34.Which structure in geology has the oldest beds at it's core? AS. An anticline 35.What is the term for any geological fold that is convex up? AS. Antiform 36.What are three types of structural traps? AS. Anticline, fault, salt dome 37.What are the types of secondary porosity in carbonate rocks? AS. Fenestral porosity (algal mats),, shelter porosity, intracrystalline porosity, moldic porosity, fractured porosity 38.What is a thief zone? AS. The term for a higher permeability layer above or beneath multiple lower perm layers 39. Name the geologic periods in order from oldest to most recent: AS. Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary, Quaternary. Also known as : Pizza can occupy some deep mud pits. Permian tall jaguars can tire quickly. 40.Three stages of flow:
AS. Transient Late Transient PseudoSteady State 41.Principle of Corresponding States? Fluid properties can be related to a fluid's critical temperature and pressure. AS. Can be used to calculate Z-factors 42.What are two fluid sampling methods? AS. Surface and downhole 43.Standard Temp and Pressure in US AS. 60 F, 14.7 psi 44.What fluid is commonly used in carbonate reservoir stimulation? AS. Carbonic Acid 45.What is the primary purpose of polymer injection? AS. Improve the sweep efficiency 46.What is the term for global rise and fall in sea level? AS. Eustacy
