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1. clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny
fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite is called......
Answer: shale

2. Reserve was categorized into 3 parts. Mention all of them!

Answer: Proved, probable, possible

3. What is the main benefit of geothermal energy for the present?

Answer: As a steam power plants or to produce electricity

4. A general term for those gases that are acidic either alone or when associated with water
called?
Answer: Sour Gas

5. What is the primary porosity!

Answer : the porosity formed at the same time with the deposition process takes
place.

6. In the circulating system, what is between the stand pipe and the swivel ?
Answer: Mud hose / goose neck

7. What is the resistance of a fluid to flow in a dynamic condition due to the intramollecular
pulling force?
Answer: Yield point
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1. What is ARAMCO stands for?

Answer: Arab-American Oil Company

2. What is Bioremediation ?
Answer : The process of decomposition of organic waste / hazardous inorganic
rendered harmless by using biological activity.

3. What is terminology for ratio of gas density to dry air density with both measured at the
same temperature and pressure?
Answer: gas specific gravity

4. When was British Petroleum founded?

Answer: 1909

5. The act of adjusting a model of a reservoir until it closely reproduces the past behavior of
a reservoir. The historical production and pressures are matched as closely as possible.
What is this procedure called?
Answer: History Matching

6. What is the term used to indicate a condition in which the pressure inside the drilling
pipes are higher than the pressure in annulus?
Answer: Burst

7. Where does top drive hang from?

Answer: Hook
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1. Mention three (3) kinds joint coupling in casing?

Answer : Round thread and coupling, buttres threas and coupling, and extreme
line.
2. Mention three times region in well testing?
Answer : early time; middle time ; late time

3. How many gallons are there in a barrell?

Answer: 42 gallon

4. Psig is a unit for pressure, what does psig stand for?

Asnwer: pound-force per square inch gauge

5. Volume can be measured with gallons, How many liters are there in a gallon?
Answer: 3.785 liter

6. What does VDL stand for?

Answer: Variable density logging

7. At what point in the wellbore does the directional drilling activities begin?
Answer: Kick-off point
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1. Sector boundary between the oil layer with the gas layer in the reservoir is called?
Answer: Gas Oil Contact

2. What does Gel Strength mean?

Answer: Theability of colloidal dispersions to maintain order in the form of drilling

3. At one phase fluid flow in the reservoir, to calculate the flow rate of production which
equation van be used?
Answer: Darcy

4. What is the major oil company of Brazil

Answer : Petrobras

5. Mention four (4) types of Lost Circulating Materials (LCM)?

Answer : Granular LCM, Flaked-shaped LCM, Fibre-shaped LCM, Commercial
blends.

6. What is the term for time needed for cement suspension to reach a consistency at which
the maximum limit when cement can be pumped?
Answer: Thickening time

7. What is the name of the hole on the drilling rig used to put kelly when tripping in or
tripping out?
Answer: Rat hole
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1. What is the definition of resistivity?

Answer : Resistivity is defined as the ability of a material to conduct electricity.

2. Mention 3 reason, why the geothermal energy called environmentally friendly energy!
Answer: Very low CO2 emision; after used for electricity producing, fluid is
reinjected to the reservoir; not produce a dangerous waste for environment

3. What the first geothermal field in the world?

Answer: Larderello, Italy

4. What the biggest company producer of geothermal energy in the world?

Answer: Chevron

5. Where is the gas field in Indonesia that contain the highest H2S?
Answer : Natuna

6. As a drilling engineer, your job is designing the casing string for wells. If you went with
P-110 casing, what parameter does the number 110 indicate?
Answer: Minimum yield strength

7. What is the name of a drilling operation in which only bit that rotates due to the mud flow
through the spiral pipe?
Answer: Positive displacement motor / PDM drilling
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1. In 2000 BP, now a group of companies that included Amoco, ARCO and Castrol,
unveiled a new global brand with a new mark, a sunburst of green, yellow and white
symbolizing dynamic energy in all its forms. What is BP stands for
Answer : Beyond Petroleum

2. What methods are used in the fluid flow in a horizontal pipe for gas wells ? Mention 2 of
them!
Answer : Weymouth, panhandle, modified panhandle

3. What is the kind of separator that used mainly to remove any free water?
Answer: Free water knockout

4. List 3 major element in the measurement of radioactive gamma ray logs!

Answer : Uranium(U), Thorium(Th), Potassium(K)

5. What is the name of this gas field, this filed is discovered by Pertamina – Mobil Oil in
1971, this field is exist in Northest Sumatera
Answer : Arun

6. What is the casing used to protect the abnormal zone?

Answer: Protective / Intermediate casing

7. Which casing is used to prevent mud chemicals from contaminating the aquifer?
Answer: Surface casing
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1. In June 2008, there is the world’s largest floating platform that the facility has a topside
deck the size of three football field. The platform name is Thunder Horse. The question is
where does that platform exist
Answer : Gulf of Mexico

2. Mention three times region in well testing?

Answer : early time; middle time ; late time

3. There are 3 major classes of rock in Earth. What are they?

Answer: Sediment, Igneous, Metamorf

4. The range of recovery factor of Water drive is around….

Answer: 20-40%

5. What equipment is used when the sand plug in the hole perforations ?

Answer: Gravel Pack

6. What process is used for treating sulfur content of gas in order to satisfy the standard
specification of gas sales?
Answer: Gas sweetening

7. What dos NPSHA stand for?

Answer: Net Positive Suction Head Available
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1. When the reservoir pressure is below…………………,CBM can be desorbed from the

coal seem.
Answer : Critical desorption pressure

2. PDVSA as we known as one of the including new seven sister oil company, the question
is PDVSA is the company comes from
Answer : Venezuela

3. What is leak of test (LOT)?

Answer: LOT is a test which done to test the formation pressure weak zones so as
not to crack

4. What could be happen if gel strength is too small?

Answer: cutting will fall to the bottom hole when drilling is stoped

5. What is the under balanced drilling?

Answer: Under balanced drilling is drilling which done when hydrostatic pressure
smaller than reservoir pressure

6. What is the main consideration related to engineering feasibility before deploying gas lift
method?
Answer: Gas availability

7. What reservoir production method works under the principle of decreasing fluid density
to decrese pressure losses in tubing?
Answer: Gas lift