Petrobrain Competition

It is matches of participant against each other in a fast-paced quiz competition. The

competing teams are challenged to answer both technical and non-technical questions
associated with the oil and gas industry.
*Click here for Petrobrain Competition registration form.
1. General Rules And Regulations
Petrobrain is open to all invited university under-graduates who merged into Oil and Gas
Industry. All universities must submit the completed registration forms for the event before
the deadline given. All presentations, verbal communications, written documentation for the
competition shall be in English. Competition rules are subject to change. Any changes,
clarifications, and/or addenda will be announced to all participating universities and during
the technical meeting.
2. Registration
Participation teams are required to submit completed registration forms before the deadline.
The registration starts from 31st JULY 1st OCTOBER 2015. After been notified as the
selected teams, you will need to pay the registration fee by 20th 31st OCTOBER 2015.
3. Game Format
The games will be based on single elimination. The winning team (team with most points)
will proceed to the next round. There will be at least three phases of competition: preliminary,
semi-final and final.
4. Participants
Competition is opened to all students who dominate science of petroleum industry such as
Petroleum Engineering and Petrochemical. All participants must be students of their
university. A team consists of 3 players shall meet all eligibility requirements. Each team
shall designate a team captain by the team members themselves. Each university may send a
maximum of 2 teams as representative. Competitors/universities are responsible for any
liability arising from their conduct while at the tournament. Any purposeful act of dishonesty

or an act which does not conform to the rules and regulations of the competition, as garnered
by tournament officials, will be deemed as course for expulsion from the competition.
5. Tournament Officials
Judges: Each phase will have three judges. All judges decisions concerning compliance to
the rules and awarding of point will be final.
Moderator/ Host: Each phase will have a moderator. There may be two moderators to share
the responsibility. The moderator(s) will read the questions, consult judges as needed to
determine the correctness of answers, award and deduct points, and otherwise enforce the
rules of competition. The judges have right to decide whether moderator can repeat the
question or not.
Scorekeeper: Each game will have at least one scorekeeper. The scorekeeper(s) will keep the
official score and individual statistics. Games will not be considered final until the
scorekeeper has declared the official score. Timekeeper: Each game will have one
timekeeper. The timekeeper will enforce time limits and supervise the game clock.
6. Equipment
This competition will be conducted such that each team in the current game has a buzzer
an electronic device determining the participant who buzzes in to answer a question first.
Each team is responsible for monitoring whether their buzzer is operating properly
throughout the game. If that particular buzzer malfunctions during the competition, the
current question will be completed and decision to skip will be done by the judges. Toss-up
question can be replayed, subject to the moderators ruling that the malfunction impacted
play of that question. Timed games will use a clock clearly visible to the teams. Participants
will be provided with paper and pencils. Calculators will be provided by committee. To
ensure fairness, competitors will use only the provided calculators. Participants may not use
reference materials during the game.
7. Time
Tardiness of more than 5 minutes from the scheduled match time may result in a forfeit,
unless the lateness is the fault of the tournament, or the tournament officials are satisfies with
other good cause. If too long to answer the question then the judges and a moderator may
consider these questions cannot be answered by participants. The clock shall not stop, except:

I. When stopped by a tournament official to resolve a problem or to replace a question. II. At

the end of the half or game. III. When a moderator needs extra questions because of
replacement of questions or overtime. IV. The clock used by the time keeper is the official
time and is not contestable. PETROBRAIN COMPETITION
8. Questions
Every game consists of three types of questions:
I. Compulsory Questions
II. Toss-up Questions
III. Bonus Questions
i. Compulsary Question On the first round, each session will have five (5)* different
compulsory questions to be answered from each group in about 4 minutes maximum. Each
group will obtain 10 points for every correct answer and if the answer is wrong, there will be
no deduction of point.
ii. Toss-Up Question On the second round, a player may use buzzer to answer a toss-up
question at any point after the moderator has begun reading the question. There will be no
transmission of signal between team members (or from the audience) to indicate who will
buzz in on a toss-up question. Verbal signals, written signals, hand motions, head motions,
eye contact, and anything else constructed as transmission of signal by the tournament
officials. Violation of the rule will result in forfeiture of opportunity to answer the toss-up.
Repeated violations can result in ejection and/or disqualification per the Ethics and
Conduct rules. Once a player has buzzed in, a tournament official will verbally recognize the
player by team name and contestant name. If a player repeatedly responds before being
recognized, tournament officials reserve the right to invalidate that players response, turning
the question over to the other team, if applicable. The player who buzzed in and is recognized
by the moderator may NOT confer verbally or otherwise with teammates (or spectators).
Should this occur, the player will lose the chance to respond to the question, and the opposing
team will be allowed to answer the question. Alternately, the question may be thrown out if
necessary at the discretion of tournament officials. Repeated violations can result in ejection
and/or disqualification per the Ethics and Conduct rules. If a player buzzes in before the
moderator has finished reading, the moderator will stop at that point. If the answer given is

incorrect, the moderator will finish the question for the other team only. An answer to a tossup must begin within 5 seconds after the player has been recognized. An answer started after
the timekeeper has said Time will be treated as no answer. Ties between the player and the
timekeeper are decided in favour of the player. Players have 5 seconds to buzz in after the
moderator has finished reading the toss-up. If the player answers incorrectly, the other team
will then have 5 additional seconds to buzz in. Some questions may permit more time, which
will be noted specifically by the question. PETROBRAIN COMPETITION Decisions as to
whether players have exceeded the allotted time to buzz in or to answer may be rendered only
by the tournament officials and are not contestable. Each toss-up question is worth 10 points.
Score will be reduced 10 points if the answer is wrong.
iii. Bonus Question Participants will obtain a bonus question if the answer is correct in tossup
questions. These types of questions lend themselves well to multiple-part questions, though it
is not required. Bonus questions can be multi-part, allowing partial credit; however, all bonus
questions must be worth a total of 20 points. Examples:
I. For 5 points each, name 4 methods to
II. For 10 points each, name the 2 companies that
III. For 20 points, what is the
A team has 25 seconds to answer a bonus question. The 25 seconds starts when the moderator
finished reading the question. If the moderator is asked to repeat the question the time will
still be counting down. After 25 seconds, the moderator will prompt the team for an answer.
Once prompted, the team captain (or the team member he designates) must immediately
begin answering or forfeit the opportunity to answer. A team may begin its answer before the
moderator is finished reading all of a bonus question. In such cases, the moderator stops
reading when the team begins its answer. If the bonus contains another part, and the first part
was answered correctly, the moderator then reads the next part of the question. Each bonus
question is worth up to 20 points and any other teams answer will not be accepted. Questions
are intended to test the contestants knowledge of petroleum engineering and petroleum
industry. Questions may include history, trivia, current events, technical questions,
calculations and problem solving. Suggested (but not all inclusive) list of study materials as
possible sources of questions:
I. Academic: Technical, Fundamentals of Petroleum Engineering

II. Non-Academic: Industry Statistics, History, Trivia, Current Events

9. Correct Answers
The moderator will accept only the first answer given by a player. Common acronyms and
abbreviations are often acceptable (e.g., chemical symbols, state postal abbreviations,
organizational acronyms), unless they appear in the question, in which case the moderator
may prompt the player to expand the acronym or abbreviation. PETROBRAIN
COMPETITION
10. Awards
Results of all the competition will be announced and awards will be distributed during the
closing ceremony. There will be three (3) winners in this competition, which are: Winner
1ST runner-up 2ND runner-up