TRIVIA QUESTION

SMART COMPETITION
INCEPTION 2019

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1. Mention the 6c Values of Pertamina Clean, confident,

commercial, competitive,
customer focus, capable.
2. Who is the general manager of Pertamina Hulu Eko Rudi Hantoro
energi ?
3. When is SPE founded ? 6th october 1957
4. Who is the President of SPE Java section ? Mr. William Harry
Ongseputra
5. Crude oil is a mixture of various different Fractional Distillation
compounds called hydrocarbons. These different
hydrocarbons need to be separated in a column
by which process?
6. Compounds that contain only hydrogen and Hydrocarbons
carbon atoms within their structure. What Is it ?
7. What is the term commonly used to refer to the directional drilling
act of deviating a well bore to head in the
direction desired?
8. These substance has boiling pont betweern teh Kerosene
temperature of 150-250 degrees on the celcius
scale and can be isolated by the method of
separating the mixture of hydrocarbons found in
the crude oii. What is the substannce called ?
9. What is the name commonly given to the liquid mud
used in drilling a well?
10. A process in which oil is separated into its Crude oil distillation
different components.. What is the name of this
process ?
11. Chains of hydrogen and carbon atoms called Cracking
 hydrocarbon compounds tend to be too large to
be considered useful in industry. What is the
name of the process which allows large
hydrocarbon molecules to be broken down into
smaller hydrocarbon molecules so that they are
efficient to use in industrial processes?
12. What is the name commonly given to the Oil the Company Man
Company representative who is present while
drilling is taking place?
13. Environmental regulations dictate that a refinery Sulfur
has to remove certain pollutants from the
products before they leave the plant. What
contributor to 'acid rain' is removed in the
refining process?
14. An organization formed in 1960 for the intent of Organization of Petroleum
negotiating the price and production levels of Exporting Countries
oil. There are currently twelve members (OPEC)
including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, Qatar,
United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Libya, Nigeria,
Venezuela, Indonesia, the Neutral Zone (the area
between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait) and Iraq.
15. A natural occurring solid, liquid or gaseous Petroleum
substance in the earth containing hydrogen and
carbon in various mixtures. Term often refers to
oil and does not include natural gas or gas
liquids such as propane or butane.
16. A tube or system of tubes for the transportation Pipeline
of oil or gas, which includes: lead linesform
pumping well to a storage tank; flow lines-from
flowing well to a storage tank; lease
linesextending from the wells to lease tanks;
gathering lines-extending from lease tanks to a
central accumulation point; feeder
lines-extending from lease to trunk lines; and
trunk lines-extending from a producing area to
refineries or terminals.
17. A drilling and production platform that is Platform
supported by a truss of steel members (a jacket)
secured to the ocean floor.
18. Portions of natural gas that are liquefied at the NGL (Natural Gas
surface in lease separators, field facilities or gas Liquids)
processing plants
19. A mixture of hydrocarbon compounds and small Natural Gas:
amounts of various non-hydrocarbons (such as
carbon dioxide, helium, hydrogen sulfide and
nitrogen) existing in the gaseous phase or in
solution with Crude Oil in natural underground
reservoirs
20. Oil platform or offshore platform, is a large Oil Rig
structure with facilities in land and overseas, to
drill wells, to extract and process oil and natural
gas, or store product for refining and marketing.
21. The density of liquid hydrocarbons, generally Oil Gravity
measured in API degrees.
22. A technician who uses chemical analysis, Mud Logger
microscopic examination of the cuttings and an
assortment of electronic instruments to monitor
the mud system for possible indications of
hydrocarbons.
23. Organization that obtains (buys or leases) the Operator
right to drill and produce oil and/or natural gas
from the owner of a specified location. The
operator of an oil or gas well or field.
24. A geographical area under which one or more Field
oil or gas reservoirs lie, all of them related to the
same geological structure.
25. A well stimulation technique in which fluids are Fracturing
pumped into a formation under extremely high
pressure to create or enlarge fractures for oil and
gas to flow through.
26. A device used on the inside of the well casing to External Casing Packer
seal off formations or to protect certain zones.
The packer is run on the casing and expanded
against the wall of the borehole at the proper
depth by hydraulic pressure or fluid pressure
from the well.
27. Injection of water, steam, gas or chemicals into Enhanced Oil Recovery
underground reservoirs to cause oil to flow
toward producing wells, permitting more
recovery that would have been possible from
natural pressure or pumping alone.
28. What is the part of the drilling rig that houses Derrick
the block and drill line used for lowering and
 raising the drill pipe in the drilling process.
29. Natural gas containing few or no natural gas Dry Natural Gas
liquids (liquid petroleum mixed with gas)
30. All operations taking place after crude oil is Downstream
produced, such as transportation, refining and
marketing.
31. The space between a well’s casing and the wall Annular space
of the borehole
32. Products of hydrocarbon chains can be used in Polythene
the formation of plastics. If a molecule of ethene
(C2H4), a member of the alkene family, reacts
with other ethene molecules, what plastic is
formed?
33. The alkene family is known as having one Addition polymerization
double carbon to carbon bond within its
structure. This gives it the ability to react with
other members of the alkene family. A good
example is when a molecule of ethene reacts
with another molecule of ethene. Ethene
molecules are considered to be monomers. What
is the name of the chemical process whereby
monomers join together to form longer chains?
34. What form of water is the most prevalent in oil Steam
refinery processing?
35. What is the proper spelling of the light oil cut Naphtha
that ends up in gasoline after the refining
process is complete?
36. What type of formations are oil and gas usually Sand
found in, particularly in the Middle East?
37. Alkanes and alkenes are two chemical families Bromine water
found within crude oil. What chemical substance
can be used to differentiate between two
unknown substances - one containing an alkane,
the other, an alkene?
38. The combustion of hydrocarbons is a common Carbon monoxide
process used in industrial chemistry. When a
hydrocarbon combusts in a plentiful supply of
oxygen (O2) gas, the by-product would be
carbon dioxide (CO2). When there is a limited
supply of oxygen, what would be the
 by-product?
39. Which of these terms describes the situation A kick
when the pressure of an oil or gas well
overcomes the hydrostatic pressure exerted on it
by the drilling fluid while drilling?
40. The term coal oil normally denotes… kerosene
41. The type of hydrocarbons that are most common Paraffins
in both crude oil and
natural gas are
42. The API gravity of the crude oil around the 10 and 50
world generally varies
between
43. The oil crisis of 1973 was triggered by Arab–Israel war
44. A crude is called “sweet” if its sulphur content is 0.5 %
less than…
45. The property of petroleum that defines its Viscosity
resistance to flow at given operating conditions
is known as
46. When was production in Bombay High started? 1976
47. OPEC was created at the Baghdad Conference
48. Which of the following is used as a feedstock Naphtha
for petrochemicals?
49. CNOOC stands for China National Offshore
Oil Corporation
50. True or False. In November 2003, Conoco True
announced its merger with Phillips
Petroleum.
51. What is DONG Energy? Denmark’s state-owned oil
company
52. The major part of crude oil imports for India C. Middle East Gulf region
comes from
53. True or False. Italy has an LNG regasification True
terminal.
54. The first LNG tanker of the world was Methane pioneer
55. The first underground natural gas storage facility Michigan
in salt cavern was
built at
56. One of the historically dominated companies Gulf Oil
organized in Texas in
1901 was
57. A commercial gas product that contains 10% Hythane.
hydrogen and about 90%
natural gas is
58. The simplest alcohol, which is toxic in nature Methanol
and derived from natural
gas or coal, is
59 Which two companies were merged to form the Royal Dutch Petroleum
Royal Dutch Shell? Company and Shell
Transport and Trading
Company
60. The Royal Dutch Petroleum Company Pangkalan Brandan
established its first refinery in Indonesia at
61. The company formed by the merger of Standard Mobil
Oil of New York and Vacuum Oil Company is
62. Who drilled the first oil well in the USA? Col Edwin Laurentine
Drake
63. The viscosity of crude oil is mainly determined Temperature of the fluid
by two factors. One of them is the amount of
dissolved gas it contains. What is the other one?
64. Apart from the temperature of the fluid, what is Amount of dissolved gas it
the other factor that determines the viscosity of contains
petroleum?
65. The amount of gas that can be dissolved in the The chemical composition
crude oil under the earth does not depend on of oil

66. When the natural gas is in liquid form, it Auto-refrigeration

exhibits a unique property
whereby the liquid evaporates continuously and
draws heat from the
 liquid. This process is termed
67. Who was the founder of the Standard Oil John D Rockefeller
Company?
68. Industrial liquid hydrocarbon utilized for Lean Oil
removing heavier components
from the gas stream in a gas-processing plant is
called.
69. What is the minimum average wind speed (in 13 mph
miles per hour or mph)
required for an economical utility-grade wind
installation?
70. Which chemical compound is used in the dry Sodium bicarbonate
powder to extinguish
LNG fires in open air?
71. Iran sells its LNG at a price linked to a particular Brent Crude oil
type of
crude oil called
72. How are Darwin and LNG related? C.
A. Darwin’s theory about LNG
B. Darwin discovered the hydrocarbons in LNG
C. An LNG gas plant is located in Darwin
Harbour
73. Offshore pipeline from China’s Hainan Island C. Hong Kong
sends gas to which
country?
74. What is added to bioethanol to convert it to ethyl Isobuthylene
tert-butyl ether
(ETBE)?
75. Which company has signed a deal with the Ottoman Energy Limited
Philippine Government to explore for oil and
gas in Northwest Palawan basin?
76. What is GCC? Gulf Cooperation Council
77. The IEA emergency response measure focuses c
on
 A. Increasing supplies of oil
B. Reducing demand of oil
C. Both A and B
78 To meet the challenges of oil crisis, the member A
countries of IEA are
required to
A. Implement demand restraint programmes in
place
B. Release all of its stock of 90 days oil at one
go
C. Reduce demand by curtailing
industrialization
79. In the energy sector, the maximum use of Power generation
natural gas is as
80. The process in which liquefied natural gas is Auto-refrigeration
kept at its boiling point,
so that any added heat is countered by energy
cost from boil off is
81. The lowest gas pressure before a gas well must Abandonment pressure
be sealed from further
production is
82. A well from which water flows to the surface Artersioan well
under its own pressure is termed
83. A mineral that was formed by a chemical Authigenic
reaction in the subsurface is termed
84. In the Asia-Pacific region, the country having Japan
maximum number of
LNG regasification terminals is
85 The first commercial natural gas liquefaction West Virginia
plant was built in
86 When The first LNG-related explosion incident 1944
occurred at Cleveland
87 In LNG transportation system, SRV stands for Shuttle and storage and
regasification vessel
88 An oil that contains a relatively high percentage Black oil
 of long, heavy, nonvolatile
hydrocarbon molecules is
89 DWT in shipping industry stands for Dead weight tonnage
90 The first underground natural gas storage field Buffalo
of the world is
91 Gas pipeline in the premises of the consumer Fuel line
between the meter and the appliance is known as
92 Gulf Oil, one of the historically dominated Texas
company, was formed in
93 An extensive region that is characterized by a Geologic province
similar geological history,
or by particular structural or physiographical
features throughout, for
example, a basin or delta, is termed
94 A liquid petroleum distillate having a viscosity Gas oil
intermediate between that of kerosene and
lubricating oil and derives its name from its
original use in the manufacture of illuminating
gas is known as
95 liquid petroleum distillate having a viscosity Gasohol
intermediate between that of kerosene and
lubricating oil and derives its name from its
original use in the manufacture of illuminating
gas is known as
96 The increase in temperature brought about when Heat of compression
a given amount of gas is compressed by a
certain amount is called
97 The full form of NYMEX is New York Mercantile
Exchange
98 A term for light oils that distil between 30°C and Industrial spirit
200°C is
99 When was oil for the first time used as a 1978
political weapon by the Arab oil-producing
countries against Israel and the West (which
many analysts view as the beginning of oil
politics)?
100 The refinery that has been granted the status of Mangalore Refinery and
“Star Trading House” by the Director General of Petrochemicals Limited,
Foreign Trade and has been exporting products, Mangalore
such as furnace oil (FO), motor spirit (MS),
aviation turbine fuel (ATF), and naphtha is