Title: Quiz 1 Part 1 - Date TBA
Course: Open PRO250 Oil & Gas Production I > Section: Week 5: Regulation and EHS

Q: Who is credited for the idea and technique of well stimulation?
- Edward Horton
- Colonel Roberts
- D.B. Sweeny
- none of the above
A: Colonel Roberts

Q: Which American philanthropist found Standard Oil?  The company had a monopoly on oil refining and ultimately was broken up by the enactment of the Sherman Anti-Trust laws.
- T Boon Pickens
- Joe Flagler
- John D Rockefeller
- Robert J. Plunkett
A: John D Rockefeller

Q: What term refers to the description of petroleum reservoirs?
- Layering
- Fissures
- Anticline
- Stratigraphy
A: Stratigraphy

Q: Who is considered the father of reservoir engineering?
- John Carll
- Henry L. Doherty
- Jim Abercrombie
- Erle Halliburton
A: John Carll

Q: What is basic drilling mud?
- Slurry of water and soil
- High Plasticity polymers
- Slurry of Water and Clay such as bentonite
- All of the Above
A: Slurry of Water and Clay such as bentonite

Q: When measuring oil, what does bbl stand for?
- Big Barrels of Oil
- Billions of Barrels of Oil
- Brown Barrels of Oil
- None of the Above
A: None of the Above

Q: About how many active wells are in Garfield County?
- 1,000,000
- 10,000
- 100,000
- 5,000
A: 10,000

Q: 1923 Ross Sterling found a reliable pumping mechanism for low pressure wells.  This become known as a:
- Lufkin pump
- Halliburton pump
- Sterling pump
- Oil well pump
A: Lufkin pump

Q: In early oil production, a leather bag filled with flax seed was placed at the bottom of a well casing  to help prevent water from seeping along  the casing into the production zone.   What 3 items replaced the seed bag?
- Clay (1864), poured acrylic plastic (1880), an inflatable rubber tube similar to a tire inner tube (1903)
- It was actually 1 item. The casing was flared at the bottom
- Cross’ rubber packer (1864), then Dresser cylindrical packer (1880), then concrete (1903).
- None of the Above
A: Cross’ rubber packer (1864), then Dresser cylindrical packer (1880), then concrete (1903).

Q: What is Geothermal Gradient?
- Hot molten sand
- Rate at which temperature increases with depth
- Higher pressure with less temperature
- Lava vents at the earth’s surface
A: Rate at which temperature increases with depth

Q: The temperature in the earth increases about ______ for every 1000’ in depth.
- 15 degrees F
- 10 degrees C
- 5 degrees F
- 15 degrees C
A: 15 degrees F

Q: What is the name and chemical formula of the simplest hydrocarbon?
- ethane, 1 Carbon covalently bonded with 4 Hydrogen
- methane, 1 Carbon double bonded with other Carbon molecules
- ethane, 2 Carbons bonded with 4 Hydrogens
- methane, 1 Carbon covalently bonded with 4 Hydrogen
A: methane, 1 Carbon covalently bonded with 4 Hydrogen

Q: If the average yearly temperature in CO is 68*F,what would the ground temperature be at 4,000 feet?
- 94 F
- 128 F
- 163 F
- 128 C
A: 128 F

Q: What pressure is Sedimentary Rock per foot?
- 5 lbs
- 1 psi
- 5000 psi
- 1 kilopascal
A: 1 psi

Q: What two types of plates make up the earth's crust?
- geographical and continental
- physical and chemical
- oceanic and continental
- clastic and chemical
A: oceanic and continental

Q: What term best describes the storage capacity of rock?
- permeability
- stratigraphic
- storage coefficient
- porosity
A: porosity

Q: In geology the law of superposition represents the idea that rock layers at the bottom are the oldest
- True
- False
A: True

Q: The guest speaker explained that the Colorado Rocky Mountains were formed by:
- Earthquakes from Plate interaction
- Mantel plume
- Suduction of plates at the fault
- Interacting synclines
A: Mantel plume