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1. You are drilling your first oil well and the driller asks you "How deep do you want your rat-hole to be?" What is he asking you about?
2. You really want to drill this well perfectly because it is your first in an old field and you want to try out an idea you've had. Your formation has a bottom hole pressure of about 200 psi and you propose to complete your well at 1,000 feet deep. You would like not to contaminate the reservior with your drilling fluid. What type of completion should you be thinking about to protect the reservoir?
3. The father of a famous eccentric became famous for establishing a tool company which made a revolutionary new kind of drill bit having three rotating cones. This bit was called what?
4. The Hughes Tool Company, inventors of the Hughes Tri-Cone drillbit, had a unique business model in the market place. If you wanted to use their revolutionary drill bit, how could you get one?
5. You are interested in old oilfields because they were discovered long ago and were not very efficient, leaving much of the original oil still in place. At the end of Secondary Recovery, such as waterfloods, as much as 66% of the oil remains in the ground. If you want to take the next step you might want to go to Tertiary Recovery methods.
Which of these is not a Tertiary Recovery method?
6. Your geologist is a Good Ol' Boy who is interested in your project and the fact that you want bring some new technology to the field. He suggests that you core the well as you drill it so he can study the formation. Calling you from the core lab he says, "Boy, you got some really good K here!" What does he mean by that?
7. Back in the early 1900s, many of the oilfields discovered in the southern United States were such prolific producers and competitive drilling so intense that the production overwhelmed the capacity to take that oil away to market. Sometimes oil was stored in hastily constructed lakes. Men could be seen rowing around in these lakes of oil.
What were they officially doing?
8. You have just bought an oil and gas lease and have found some old oil wells on your lease. After some research you find out that one of your wells is "fractured". What does this mean?
9. Which of the following is generally true of the new oil discoveries being made?
10. BP's blowout on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 spilled more oil than naturally seeps into the navigable waters surrounding the US in a typical year.
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