1.WHAT is subsea processing?

a. The objective is to reduce energy to well stream fluids

b. Moving topside processing equipment to subsea
c. Not applicable for brownfield and green field subsea
d. Decommissioning of down hole equipment

2. Which technique of seismic acquisition helps in monitoring reservoir properties such as

fluids, temperature, and saturation and pressure changes during the productive life of a
field?

a. 4D
b. 1D
C.3D
d. 2D

3.Final testing of the completion string should consider all of the following except:
a. The integrity of mud logging and cementing operation
b. The hydraulic integrity of the production casing and wellhead
c. The integrity of hanger/wellhead seals. for both pressure in the annulus or tubing
d. The integrity of tubing joints/couplings

4. The major use of limestone is

a. Primary source material for manufacture of Portland cement

b. Used as fertilizer
c. Used as a source of magnesium
d. Used in metallurgical industries as flux

5. Among the following petroleum compounds identify the different one.

a. Zinc
b. Naphthene
c. Aromatics
d. Paraffin

6.In general, why are the Packers used?

a. It is used inside the separator unit

b. To isolate the annulus from production
c. Used in Group Gathering Station
d. To isolate the pipe from production

7.Which one of the following is not major duty of an employer in setting up of HSE
management?
a. Setting safe place of work
b. Allow visitors to visit enter work place without induction
c. Setting of safe system of work
d. Arrange Training and supervision

8. Identify a process that uses borehole measurements to evaluate the characteristics of sub
surface formations.

a. Reservoir simulation
b. Reserve estimation
c. Reservoir characterization
d. Formation evaluation

9. Order petroleum system elements that from the deposition of organic matter to
preservation of oil.
a. Source rock Migration route Reservoir rock Seal and Cap rock.
b. Source rock rock- Migration route Seal and cap Reservoir rock.
c. Seal and cap rock route Migration Reservoir rock Source rock.
d. Source rock Reservoir rock Migration route Seal and Cap rock

10. Distinguish subsea components that handle communication from MCS & safe operation
of subsea valves and trees.

A.Subsea control module

b. Subsea umbilical Termination
O Modular mounting base
d. Subsea distribution Unit

11.Which among the following is not a use of shale?

a. Used as source of alumina

b. Used as precious gemstone
c. Used in manufacture of bricks and tiles
d. Used as source of oil

12.One of the following fluids is not used during gas injection while applying enhanced oil
recovery operations.

A. Butane
B. Natural gas
C. Carbon dioxide
D. Nitrogen

13. Which of the following is not a key section of HSE policy?

a. Arrangements
b. Organisation
C. General Statement of intent
D. Planning

14. What is Production Tubing?

A. Surface Casing
B. Intermediate Casing
C. Conduit for hydrocarbon transportation
D. Drill pipe that takes the production

15. Which one of the following are favourable/

stable displacement processes?
a. Water displacing light oil Krw= 0.3. Uw=
0.6. Displaced oil Kro 0.8, Uc = 0.4
b. Gas displacing oil, Krg = 0.5, Ug0.01, Kro 0.8, Uo1
c. Water displacing light oil, Krw = 0.3, Uw 06, Displaced oil Kro = 0.8, Uo = 10
d. Water displacing heavy oil, Krw = 0.3, Uw=0.6, Displaced oil Kro = 0.8, Uo 20

16. How can you differentiate, different lithology of the subsurface formation?

a. Cross-plotting of resistivity and gamma ray logs

b. Cross-plotting of neutron and spontaneous logs
c Cross-plotting of radioactive and acoustic log
d. Cross-plotting of neutron and density
logs

17. In a sandstone matrix, with an acoustic velocity of 5400 ft/sec in the fluid and 18,000
ft/sec in the matrix, calculate the porosity if bulk density is 2.31g/cm³, matrix density is 2,67
g/cm³, and fluid density is 1.00 g/cm³

a 25.5%
b. 21.6%
C.16.3%
d .12.5%
20. Which of the following is not a component of drill string?

a. Kelly
b. Drill Pipe
C. Chock manifold
d. Bit

21. There are 950 MM stb (million stock tank

barrels) of oil initially in place in a reservoir. It is estimated that 500 MM stb can be
produced. Already 100 MM stb have been produced. What is stock tank oil initially in place
(STOOIP)

A.600 stb
B. 400 stb
C.950 etc
D. 500 stb

22. Which logging tool is relatively better in correlating logs and matching the depth of the
interest formation?

A.Acoustic log
B.Sonic log
C.Resistivity log
d. Gamma Ray log

23. Which type of data is different from the following alternatives?

a. Reservoir structure

Reservoir sand connectivity

c. Relative permeability

d. Impact of fauits

24. Determine the annular capacity between casing and hole: Given that. Annular
capacity,bbl/ft (D-D)/1029.4
Where: D. Diameter of hole, D, Diameter of pipe Hole size (0) 12 4 and Drill pipe OD (Dp) 5.0

a. 0,19598 bbl/ft

b0.14235 bbl/ft
0.12149 bbl/ft

d. 0.14124 bb/ft

25. What is the main purpose of heavy wall drill

what?

a. Used to increase wall thickness

b. To provide thread for connecting joints
c. Used for rock cutting and chopping
d. Uses more soft facing

26. Which one is best source of kerogen to oil prone maturation?

a. Type III
b. Type IV
c. Type
d. Type II

27. Which drilling instrument found at the bottom of drill string, and drills the formation
rock?

a. Drill bit
b. Drill collar
C.Drill pipe
D. Old Kelly

28. Which of the following need not be done as a remedial measure for the sick well?

a. Pressure maintenance
b. Sand production
C. Enhanced all recovery
d. Work over job

30. Which one is not the main objective of well test?

A. Reservoir characterization.
b. Reservoir description
c. Reservoir management
d. Reservoir evaluation
31. analysis of anomalous subsurface feature (causative target) to the detected by the
survey. in Caleb Feld. Which correction are you going to apply to your measured magnetic
data?

A. Free at correction
B.Diurnal correction
C.Terrain commotion
D.Bouguer correction.

32. From which of the following information does permeability could be obtained?

A.Leak off teat

D.Saturation test
C.Fracture test
d. Doll stem test

33. Which of the following statement is not comect about CRM?

A.Low cost CBM production profile during the early phase of CBM extraction
B.High cost CBM production profile during the early phase of CBM extraction low at the
C. Methane production is too early phase of CBM production
D.Water production profile is high at the early phase of CBM production

34. Which one of the following statement is the

wrong about the signtheance of well logging interpretation?

A.Interpret Lithology
B. Determine the hydrocarbon saturation of the zones of interest
C.Identify the permeable and non- permeable beds on the logss
D. Analyzing the choke performance

35. What are the basic mechanisms by werch

polymer flooding recover remaining of more elficiently?
A. By increasing the water to off mobility ratio
B. by increasing water fingering in the formation
C.By allowing injected water to zones that have been sweep betone
D. Through the effect of polymers on fractional flow

36. Outline the correct statement from the following:

A. Effective porosity is the percentage of pore space with respect to the bulk volume of a
rock
B. Absolute porosity is defined as the ratio of the total pore space in the rock to that of the
bulk volume
C. High Interconnected porosity has always low permeability
D. High porosity rock has always high permeability

37. Which one of the following items is not component of criling fluids?

A. Barite
B. Colloidal particles
C. Gravel materials
D. Bentonite

38. An interest that receives a portion of the not proceeds from a well, typically after all
costs have been paid is called

a. Net working interest

b. Economic interest
C. Profit spill
d.Net profits interest

40. Identify a type of Sedimentary rock that has well-sorted, mature, clay-sized particles,
generally implies deposition into quiet water.

A. Conglomerate
B. Mudstone
C. Sandstone
D. Greywacke

41. Assume that Poly CCL, oil and gas Company made PSA type fiscal system agreement with
the Ethiopian government. Calculate the minimum share of Ethiopian government expect
from a gross production of 100,000bbis uf oil sold for $60/bbl.

A. $1,500,000.0

B. $900,000,0

C. $210,000.0

D. $600,000.0

42. Identify rocks that are formed at the earth surface by the accumulation and
cementation of fragments of earth rocks, minerals, and organisms or as chemical
precipitates and organic growths in water.
A. Extrusive Igneous rocks
B. Metamorphic rocks
C. Intrusive igneous rocks
D. Sedimentary rocks

43. Which technique helps more to detect the

subsurface structure and possibly indication direct petroleum

A. Geochemical
B. Remote series
C. Geophysics
D. Geological

44. What conditions are needed to perform w down lest?

A. One well is produced and pressure is observed in a different wells

B. An static, stable and shut-in is opened to flow out of it and its flow rate is supposed to be
constant
C. Flow rate is supposed to be constant but its flow is not the well rather than cut of n
D. A well which is already flowing (ideally constant rate) is shut-in and down hot pressure
measured as the pressure builds up

45. Which one af is not favourable conettion for the formation of petroleum?

A. Sufficient amount of organic matter

B. Less energetic environment
C. Anaerobic environment
D. Aerobic environment

46. Distinguish the wrong statement

A. Nuclear magnetic resonance log alone can oredict gas corrected formation porosity im gas
bearing zones.

B. Determining and dividing the formations into water bearing and hydrocarbon bearing
zones can be cone by neutron and resistivity loga

C. Identification of permeable and non

permeable zones can be done by the combination of gamma ray, Spontaneous, and
resistivity logs
D. Rock porosity can be determined by combination of acoustic log, density log and/or
neutron log

48. Each type of logging tool has special formation evaluation applications Which of the
following statements is false?

A.Nuclear magnetic resonance fluid characterization logs can be used to identify low
resistivity pay zones
B. Nuclear magnetic resonance and censity logs can be combined to predict gas corrected
formation porosity in gei bearing zones
C. Resistivity measurements alone can be zones used to differentiate oil zones from gas

D. Pressure versus depth measurements

can be used to identify reservoir fluids and fluid contacts.

49. Before starting production it was estimated that there was a 90% chance of producing at
last.103 MM stb,100MM 50% chance of procucing 500 MM stb and 10% chance of
producing 700MM sth. That is we are sare we can produce at least atb, and we will probably
produce as much as 500 MM stb, and we will possibly produce as much as 700 MM sta
Determine Proved reserves (MM stb).

A. 200 stb
B. 400 stb
C. 100 stb
D. 300 utb

50. Which one is wrong about distinct technical responsibilities of reservoir engineers?

A. Contributing to the estimation of hydrocarbons in place

B. Determining the fraction of discovered hydrocartions that can be recovered.
C. Attaching a time scale to the rесоvеr
D. Completion and stimulation of wells

51. field which deals with the searching hydrocarbon fluids by analyzing subsurface
structures with geological and geophysical methods.

A. Drilling engineering
B. Reservoir engineering
C. Production engineer
D. Petroleum Geoscience

52. Which of the following is not the objective of draw down test?
A.To obtain average permeability of the reservoir rock within the drainage area of the well
B To obtain pore volume of the reservoir
C. To obtain initial reservoir pressure curing the transient state
D. To assess the degree of damage or stimulation

53. What is the significance of adding barite to

water based muds?

A. To Increase the density of the mud

B. To increase water filtration towards the formation
C. To reduce oil water surface tension
D. To Increase circulation rate

54. If the average pressure gradient in a region is 0.47 psi/ft, calculate the pore pressure in a
normally pressurized formation at 74001.

A.3478 psi
B. 4000 psi
C.15,000.00
D. 15,744 p

55. Which one the following well bead assembly Installed on the top of the well head?

A. Tubing head
B. Casing head
C.Christmas tree
D. Surface casing

56. In which depositional environment sediments are deposited by

a Glacier are poorly sorted and angular sediments

A. Deltaic environments
B. Deserte environments
C. Lacustrine environments
D. Glacial environments

57. Why do you think that drilling fluid is being

conditioned and monitored continuously during drilling operation?

A. Because it is the job of the mud logger

B. To undertake stable drilling operations
C. To separate sittings from drilling fluid
D. To ensure that mud fluid is mixture of solids and liquids
58. An engineer who works in optimizes the
production of oil and gas as part of the economic policy

A. Drilling engineer
B. Reservoir engineer
C. Completion engineer
D. Production engineer

59. Identify a key element of health and safety management system that improves the
efficiency and consistency of the health and safety management System.

A. Action for improvement

B. Planning and implementing
C. Auditing
D. Evaluation

60. Which of the following factors are geological factors de not mainly affect affecting EOR
performance?

A. Variable geology
B. Areal variation of the reservoir
C. Vertical and lateral venation
D. Reservoir compatibility

61. Which one of the following component’s used in alkali flooding?

A. soap
B. Steam
C. Sodium hydroxides
D. Hydrolysed polyacrylamide (HPA)

62.Which one of the petroleum field cycles, includes from exploration to production of
crude oil and/ or natural gas?
a. Upstream
b. Downstream
C. Back end
d. Midstream
63. What conditions should be maintained during well completion?
a. Running seismic log
b. Drilling up to target zone
c. Exploring into new oil prone areas
d. Installation of production tubing

64. Which of the following parameters is considered as fixed parameters that mainly affect
the penetration rate while drilling an oil and gas wells?
a. Bit weight
b. Mud properties
c. Rock hardness
d. Bottom -hole cleaning
65.If Viscosity of heavy oil is 200 cp, calculate the productivity Index of the oil.
O a. 0.004 Ob. 0.003 O C. 0.002 Od. 0.005
66. ldentify one, which is not categorized under reservoir evaluation.
a. Design of well spacing
b. Wellbore stimulation
C. Number of wells
d. Monitoring performance and well conditions
67. The displacement of oil from reservoir at pore level is called
a. Macroscopic displacement
b. Microscopic displacement
C. Permissibility
d. Relative permeability

68.Which one of the following is not considered as a key element of health and safety
management system?
a. Interviewing
b. Organizing
c. Planning and implementing
d. Evaluation

69. Which one of the petroleum field cycles includes from exploration to production of
crude oil and/or natural gas?
a. Midstream
b. Downstream
c. Backend
d. Upstream

70.From which seismic reflection acquisition technique many information such as faulting
and fracturing, bedding plane direction, the presence of pore fluids, complex geological
structure, and detailed stratigraphy are commonly interpreted.
a. 2D
b. 3D
C. VSP
d. 1D

71.Which one of the following is different from the otservice

a.Pure service agreement
Ob. Risk service agreement
O C. Concessionary systems
Od. Production agreement

72.Which one of the following operations does not provide safe and effective installation of
completion tubing?

a. The complete string must be able to withstand the test/operating pressure.

b. Specific items of equipment (SSSV,
packer, PT gauge, ICV) should be positioned at or near the desired setting depth.
C Packer should not withstand an operating differential pressure
d. Mechanically functioning equipment must be operational

73.Assume if you are in the field, and you get grey color, reacted with acid, and with full of
fossil skeletons. Which type of sedimentary rock is that?
a .Micritic limestone
b. Coquina limestone
C. Fossiliferous limestone
Od. Sandstone

74. Which one of the following statements describes polycrystalline diamond bits?

a.Made possible by the introduction of a sintered polycrystalline diamond drill blanks, as a

bit cutter element.
b. It works good in limestone reservoirs
than sandstone.
C. It Perform best in hard formations.
d. Work better in water based muds.
75.What is a sliding sleeve?
a. A circulating device that communicates
the tubing and annulus
b. Sonde
c. Perforation gun
d. Logging tool
76. Assume you are trying to make magnetic survey for analysis of anomalous subsurface
feature (causative target) to be detected by the survey in Calub field. If you got different
value from the average value of geophysical parameter which is the presence of causative
target described
as
a. Noise
b. Model C. Signal
d. Anomaly
 77.Which of the following could be a barrier to good HSE report?
a. Apathy
b. Clear organisational policy
C. Good management response
d. No peer pressure
78.Who is the first man found crude oil?
O a. Jon Gulyas
Ob. James Townsend
O C. Thomas J. Edison
Od. Edwin L. Drake
78.What is the term back agreement mean?
a.An agreement between a host government and a contractor under, which the host pays
the contractor an agreed price for all volumes of hydrocarbons produced by the contractor
b. An agreement between a host government and a contractor under, which the contractor
pays the host an agreed price for all volumes of hydrocarbons produced by the
contractor.
C. An agreement between a host government and a contractor under, which the host pays
the contractor for extra produced oil.
D.an agreement under which one party (the carrying party) agrees to pay for a portion or all
of the pre-production costs of another party (the carried party) on a license in which both
own a portion of the working interest
79.Which one is the gas cap that sits on top of, and in contact with, crude oil in the
reservoir?
a. Associated gas
b. Natural gas
C. Non-associated gas
d. Dissolved gas
80.The general statement of intent in HSE policy specifies:

a. Spells out the main objectives or measurable targets for H&S.

b. Chain of command and communication
c. Roles and responsibilities of employees and management, their accountability
d. Operational duties in terms of health
and safety

81. Why do you think that drilling engineers need to design and consider margin of over pull
properly when designing a drill string?

a. To overcoming an extra force applied when the drill string is subjected to

stick when pulling the pipe.
b. To prevent the drill string from corrosion and break
c. To hold drill string tight
d. To prevent fluids from flowing in uncontrolled manner
82.What is the flow rate of a horizontal rectangular system when the conditions are as
follows: Permeability (k) = 1 darcy, area (A) =6 ft, Viscosity =p=1.0 cp, Length (L) = 6 ft, Inlet
pressure (P1) = 5.0 atm, Outlet pressure (P2) = 2.0 atm
a. 89.3 cm/sec
b. 91 cm/sec
C. 91.24 cm³/sec
d. 91.42 cm³/sec
A reservoir has been discovered by drilling a successful exploration well, and drilling a
number of producing wells. We have even produced some 200 MM stb of oil. STOP =
2000MM stb Recovery factor = 35%. What are the reserves?
a.500 stb
b. 200 stb
C. 700 stb
d. 400 stb
83. The full form of BOP is
a. Bottom hole Pressure
b. Blow Out Preventer
C. Below Optimum Pressure
d. Bottom Oil Price
84.Which one of the following statements do you think is incorrect about the promises of
EOR?
a.Decline rates are small relative to water flooding or primary oil recovery method
b. Injected fluids are relatively expensive
c.EOR is exercised in a place where large volume of oil in place that is quantified
d.Its risk is low

85.Name those quantities of petroleum which are anticipated to be commercially recovered

from known accumulations from a given date forward.
a. Resource
b. Volume of petroleum in place
C. Stock tank oil in place
d. Reserve

1. B. Moving topside processing equipment to subsea

2. a. 4D
3. d. The integrity of tubing joints/couplings
4. a. Primary source material for manufacture of Portland cement
5. a. Zinc
6. b. To isolate the annulus from production
7. b. Allow visitors to visit enter the workplace without induction
8. d. Formation evaluation
9. a. Source rock Migration route Reservoir rock Seal and Cap rock
10. b. Subsea umbilical Termination
11. b. Used as precious gemstone
12. A. Butane
13. D. Planning
14. C. Conduit for hydrocarbon transportation
15. a. Water displacing light oil Krw= 0.3. Uw= 0.6. Displaced oil Kro 0.8, Uc = 0.4
16. a. Cross-plotting of resistivity and gamma ray logs
17. b. 21.6%
20. C. Chock manifold
21. B. 400 stb
22. B. Sonic log
23. c. Relative permeability
24. a. 0.19598 bbl/ft
25. b. To provide thread for connecting joints

26. a. Type III

27. a. Drill bit
28. C. Enhanced oil recovery
30. d. Reservoir evaluation
31. D. Bouguer correction
32. A. Leak off test
33. B. High cost CBM production profile during the early phase of CBM extraction low at the
34. D. Analyzing the choke performance
35. D. Through the effect of polymers on fractional flow
36. A. Effective porosity is the percentage of pore space with respect to the bulk volume of a
rock
37. C. Gravel materials
38. d. Net profits interest
40. B. Mudstone
41. A. $1,500,000.0
42. D. Sedimentary rocks
43. C. Geophysics
44. D. A well which is already flowing (ideally constant rate) is shut-in and down hole
pressure measured as the pressure builds up
45. D. Aerobic environment
46. Distinguish the wrong statement:

D. Rock porosity can be determined by a combination of acoustic log, density log, and/or
neutron log.

48. Each type of logging tool has special formation evaluation applications. Which of the
following statements is false?

C. Resistivity measurements alone can be used to differentiate oil zones from gas.

49. Before starting production, it was estimated that there was a 90% chance of producing at
least 103 MM stb, a 50% chance of producing 500 MM stb, and a 10% chance of producing
700 MM stb. Determine Proved reserves (MM stb).

B. 400 MM stb.

50. Which one is wrong about distinct technical responsibilities of reservoir engineers?
D. Completion and stimulation of wells.

51. The field that deals with the searching for hydrocarbon fluids by analyzing subsurface
structures with geological and geophysical methods.

D. Petroleum Geoscience.

52. Which of the following is not the objective of a drawdown test?

B. To obtain the pore volume of the reservoir.

53. What is the significance of adding barite to water-based muds?

A. To increase the density of the mud.

54. If the average pressure gradient in a region is 0.47 psi/ft, calculate the pore pressure in a
normally pressurized formation at 7400 ft.

A. 3478 psi.

55. Which one of the following wellhead assemblies is installed on the top of the wellhead?

B. Christmas tree.

56. In which depositional environment are sediments deposited by a glacier poorly sorted
and angular sediments?

C. Glacial environments.

57. Why do you think that drilling fluid is being conditioned and monitored continuously
during the drilling operation?
 B. To undertake stable drilling operations.

58. An engineer who works in optimizing the production of oil and gas as part of the
economic policy.

C. Production engineer.

59. Identify a key element of a health and safety management system that improves the
efficiency and consistency of the health and safety management system.

D. Auditing.

60. Which of the following factors are geological factors that do not mainly affect EOR
performance?

E. Reservoir compatibility.

61. Which one of the following components is used in alkali flooding?

D. Sodium hydroxide.