PES 105: DRILLING TECHNOLOGY AND WELL SITE GEOLOGY

1. If there are n number of pulleys in crown block there are -------- number of pulleys
in the traveling block.
a. n+1
b. n-1
c. n+2
d. n-2
2. Height of the rig is decided by
a. Pipe stacking length
b. Depth of the well
c. Weight of the pipes
d. Capacity of the engines
3. At 2000 meters depth the formation pressure is 200 atmospheres. If the hydrostatic
pressure is to be maintained at 240 atmospheres what should be the specific gravity of
the mud.
a. 1.02
b. 1.2
c. 1.24
d. 1.5
4. Kelly is ---- in cross section
a. Circular
b. Oval
c. Square
d. Triangular
5. Weight indicator of the drill string is installed on
a. Fast end of the drilling line.
b. Hook of the traveling block
c. Cat line
d. Dead end of the drilling line
6. During round trips of the drill pipes Kelly is
a. Rested in the Rat hole
b. Rested in the mouse hole
c. Rested on the Cat walk
d. Rested in the main well
7. Surges of mud pump flow are smoothened at
a. Stand pipe
b. Mud hose
c. Mud storage pit
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d. Hydraulic manifold
8. To suspend the cuttings in the mud column which of the following
parameters help.
a. Density
b. Viscosity
c. Gel strength
d. All of above
9. Derrick man / top man works on
a. Derrick floor
b. Monkey board
c. Cat walk
d. Pipe racks
10. A blowout is controlled by
a. High density mud
b. Low density mud
c. Viscous mud
d. Water
11. False conductor casing is the
a. Top most casing
b. Second stage casing
c. Isolated casing
d. Production casing
12. Range I drill pipes are of length
a. 3 to 4 meters
b. 6 to 5 meters
c. 9 to 8 meters
d. 11 to 12 meters
13. What is meant by GTO
a. Geo Technical Order
b. Geology Technology Office
c. Geology Technology Officer
d. Geo Technology Order

14. What is meant by lag time

a. Time of drilling
b. Time of logging
c. Time of round Trip

d. Time for the drill cuttings to come to surface

15. What is litholog
a. Litholog
b. Sand
c. Shale
d. The plot of lithology versus depth
16. What is meant by Drill cuttings.
a. Sand cuttings
b. Shale cuttings
c. Rock cuttings
d. Lithologic cutting samples during drilling
17. What is meant by Cavings?
a. Large sand grains
b. Large shale grains
c. Sample which are of larger size of the already drilled section of a well
d. Large drilling sample
18. Mud loss occurs when:
a. Hydrostatic pressure exerted by the drilling mud
b. Counter balances the formation pressure
c. Is less than the formation pressure
d. Is more than the formation pressure
19. Stuck up means
a. Drilling Bit is lost
b. Drill pipe is lost
c. Drill collar is lost
d. The drill string along with drilling bit gets stuck at some depth and
there is no rotation of the drill string .
20. Mud cake forms
a. Against shale
b. Against fractured formations
c. Against linestone
d. When mud filtrate enters into the permeable formations

21. Hydrocarbons are generated from

a. Sandstone
b. Deccan Traps

c. limestone
d. kerogen
22. How Travel Time in seismic survey is related to the density of a rock
a. As Travel Time increases, the density of the rock increases
b. As Travel Time increases, the density of the rock decreases
c. As Travel Time decreases, the density of the rock decreases
d. All of above
23. Caliper log measures the
a. Porosity of the formation
b. Permeability of the formation
c. The well diameter
d. The shale content of the formation
24. The example of a stratigraphic Trap is :
a. Normal fault
b. Reverse fault
c. limestone
d. Variation of lithology from a permeable zone to an impermeable zone.
25. The density of water under normal pressure and temperature conditions is
a.
b.
c.
d.

0.1 gm/cc
0.01 gm/cc
1 gm/cc
10 gm/cc

26. Subsurface correlation is carried out normally is oil exploration by

a. Field mapping
b. G-M survey
c. Seismic survey
d. Electro/logs
27. Palynology is the study of :
a. Vertebrates
b. Invertebrates
c. Fossils
d. Spores & pollen
28. In Geological Field mapping, a dip Reversal is interpreted as a
a. Fault
b. Unconformity
c. Anticline
d. none of the above

29. Open Hole completion means :

a. Casing is set at the bottom of the well
b. The pay zone is left open and not covered by the casing
c. Casing is lowered upto the bottom of the pay zone
d. None of the above
30. What is meant by stratigraphic core?
a. A conventional core cut in sandstone
b. A conventional core cut in shale
c. A conventional core cut for determining the Stratigraphy i.e for study
of fossils and age determination of a formation
d. A conventional core cut in a pay zone
31. What is meant by the Horizontal Drift of a well?
a. Inclination of a well
b. Deviation of a well
c. Shift from the north
d. The displacement of the subsurface position of the well based on the
inclination of drilling.
32. Typical crude oil exhibits
a. White fluorescence
b. Black fluorescence
c. Green fluorescence
d. Golden Yellow fluorescence
33. What is meant by B.O.P
a. Blow out pressure
b. Blow out preventor
c. Blow out product
d. Blow out produce
34. Flushed Zone means
a. Zone very near to the well bore
b. Zone very far from the well bore
c. Uncontaminated zone
d. None of the above
35. Invaded Zone means
a. Upto the depth , the zone invades
b. Upto the depth, the well is drilled
c. Upto the depth, the samples are collected
d. The zone upto which, the filtrate of the drilling fluid invades into the
formation

36. The density of the drilling fluid is maintained based on the

a. Mud weight
b. Viscosity of the mud
c. Hydrostatic pressure of the formation
d. Filtration loss
37. What is meant by a Blow out
a. Flow of water
b. Flow of crude oil
c. Gas flow
d. Uncontrolled flow from the well due to pressure anomaly
38. Mud loss occurs when
a. The density of the drilling fluid is more.
b. The density of the drilling fluid is less.
c. Hydrostatic pressure exerted by the drilling fluid is more than
the formation pressure
d. Hydrostatic pressure exerted by the drilling fluid is less than the
formation pressure
39. What is meant by cavings?
a. Drill cuttings
b. Shales
c. Limestones
d. Larger size grains of the earlier drilled section.
40. What is meant by Solvent Cut
a. Cutting samples
b. The rock cut by the bit
c. The colouration imparted to crude oil on treating with carbon
tetrachloride or Ether
d. None of the above
41. Laminar flow is:
a. steady flow
b. unsteady flow
c. zigzag flow
d. intermittent flow.
42. Turbulent flow is:
a. Eddy currents all around the axis of flow
b. Stream lined flow
c. Intermittent flow
d. Drop by drop flow

43. A drilling fluid is:

a. An acid used to drill
b. Mercury used to drill
c. Water, oil, gas/ air are some of the drilling fluids
d. None of the above
44. Formation pressure is:
a. Hydrostatic pressure
b. Pressure applied to formation
c. Formation pore pressure
d. None of the above
45. Blow out is:
a. Blowing a trumpet
b. Blowing fluid through fountains
c. Entering and gushing of formation fluids through well under drilling
d. None of the above
46. An oil well cement is
a. A mixture of some sticky materials
b. A mixture of dicalcium silicate, tricalcium silicate, tricalcium
aluminate etc
c. It is a heterogeneous mixture of chemicals
d. None of the above
47. Cement thickening time is cut down by the addition of
a. Water
b. Oil
c. Accelerators
d. None of the above
48. A cased hole is cemented to
a. isolate different zones encountered while drilling
b. it is just filling the gap
c. to give an aesthetic look to the drilled well
d. none of the above
49. Primary cementation is
a. First time cementation in a well
b. Placement of cement slurry behind the casing against zone of interest
c. Cementation with only neat cement
d. None of the above

50. Neat cement slurry is

a. Simply cement slurry without mixing any additives
b. Clean cement not having any stones
c. Cement slurry mixed with alcohol
d. None of the above

PES: 105. Drilling Technology and

Well site Geology
1.b
2.a
3.b
4.c
5.d
6.a
7.d
8.d
9.b
10.a
11.a
12.d
13.a
14.d
15.d
16.d
17.c
18.c
19.d
20.d
21.d
22.b
23.c
24.d
25.c
26.d
27.d
28.c
29.b
30.c
31.d
32.d
33.b
34.a
35.d
36.c
37.d
38.c
39.d
40.c
41.a
42.a
43.c

44.c
45.c
46.b
47.c
48.a
49.b
50.a