QUESTIONS

1. On great day of December 14, 1992, perforations made below an abandoned well near Lake
Maracalbo brought in a prodigious gusher. Barroso Number 2, which as reported by the New
York Times ‘began at 2000 barrels per day and increased rapidly until it flowed wild at
100000 BPD, destroyed the derrick, and blew a column 200 ft into the air.’ The Los Barroso
gusher began what country’s oil boom?
2. Who is the faculty advisor of SPE SC ITB now?
3. Where is the country that has functions as the Headquarters of OPEC located?
4. Where was SPE 2010 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) held?
5. What is the name of natural gas that is extracted from coal beds?
6. When was British Petroleum founded?
7. In 19th Sept 2010, BP confirmed that well kill operations on the MC252 well in the Gulf of
Mexico is complete, with both the casing and annulus of the well sealed by what?
8. In 1996, Schlumberger started to work on Statoil Hydro’s Sleipner Project, one of the first and
most significant international projects demonstrating the potential for safe subsurface storage
of one compound. What is the name of the compound?
9. On 3rd June 1979, a 2 miles deep exploratory well, blew out in the Bahia de Campeche, 600
miles south of Texas, in the Gulf of Mexico. The water depth at the wellhead site is about 50
m (164 feet). What is the name of that well?
10. Petrobras has designated a team to build its Master Plan for Santos Basin’s Pre-Salt Cluster
Development. This projects also known as what?
11. Who is the chairman of SPE Java Section for 2010-2011 period?
12. While hydrocarbons by definition are compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon,
motor fuels consist of saturated hydrocarbons, also known as alkanes. What is the lightest
straight chain alkane that exists as a liquid at standard conditions?
13. What is terminology for volume of gas required in reservoir condition to produce one barrel
of gas in standard condition? What is its unit?
14. Mention 1 of 3 things that is commonly called as solid desiccants in gas dehydration activity!
15. In water quantitative analysis, galvanimetric method is commonly used for determining
concentration of what?

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16. What is an unusual process in which water and natural gas combine to form a solid at
temperatures above the freezing point of water called?
17. What is terminology for ratio of gas density to dry air density with both measured at the same
temperature and pressure?
18. The packing model, assuming uniform grain size in sedimentary rocks, considers two ideal
geometric arrangements. They are rhombohedral & cubic. What is the porosity of cubic pack?
19. In horizontal view, WOC is a zone or line?
20. How is the result of absolute permeability measurement with gas as testing fluid in various
pressures?
n a .Rw
21. In Archie’s second law, we know that Sw = . What does variable ‘m’ means?
фm .Rt

22. How many reservoir fluid properties that affecting rock properties? What are they?
23. What is terminology for amount of energy for moving a unit of rocks volume?
24. What is the function of MBH (Matthews – Brons – Hazebroek) method?
25. What is method that use for test result analysis in build-up, draw-down, & interference test
well?

26. See the table above! Production flowrate is 800 STB/day, and GLR has the same value in
SCF/STB. In the other hand, length of tubing that we use is 7500 ft. From test point data,
value of flowing well pressure is 1400 psi. Calculate pressure in well head! Assume the GLR
has the same point at any depth in tubing, and tubing is vertical from bottomhole to well head.
27. What is TSE in petroleum production stand for?
28. In well with low Gas Oil Ratio, what is the type of separator?
29. What is the purpose of general method that proposed by Kuo and DesBrisay?
30. In IPR curve, what will be happened to curve if formation is stimulated?

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31. What is another terminology for gravity drive mechanism?
32. Mention 3 logs which used for cement quality analysis!
33. Non-shaly rock, 100% saturated with water. In Archie law, having resistivity notated with
what?
34. What is thermal EOR method that need air injection?
35. Settling is fluid separation method. What is the principal of this method?
36. Name 3 types of drive mechanisms for petroleum reservoirs and rank them in terms of
average recovery factor from highest to lowest.
37. What is terminology for advanced technique for producing oil after basic technique doesn’t
work any more?
38. What does M-170D-180-64 mean in SRP Specification?
39. Schilthuis was the first person that found mathematic model for water influx in what
condition?
40. Mention 2 methods or activities for stimulation activity!
41. In gas lift, if water cut is high, gas injection is increased. Why?
42. What is science in geophysics that study about vibration phenomena in earth?
43. Mention 2 active wave source that use in geophysics!
44. Mention 2 corrections in processing gravity data!
45. One of geophysics method is refraction seismic. This method is application of whose method?

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1. Venezuela 30. move to the right.
2. Mr. Asep Kurnia P. 31. segregation drive mechanism
3. Vienna, Austria 32. CBL (Cement Bond Log), VDL (Variable
4. Florence, Italy Density Log), CEL (Cement Evaluation
5. CBM or Coal Bed Methane Log)
6. 1909 33. Ro
7. cement 34. in-situ combustion
8. CO2 35. gravitation
9. IXTOC I 36. water drive (75%), gas cap drive (40%),
10. PLANSAL solution gas drive (30%)
11. Mr. Sugembong C.F. from Star Energy 37. enhanced oil recovery
12. pentane 38. M-170D-180-64 : M = Mark II, D =
13. gas FVF; cuft/scf or bbl/scf double reduction gear reducer, 170 =
14. alumina, silica gel, and molecular sieve 170000 in-lb (peak torque rating), 180 =
15. sulphate ion 18000 lb (polished rod load rating), 64 =
16. gas hydrate formation 64’’ (maximum stroke length)
17. gas specific gravity 39. steady state
18. 47,6% 40. fracturing, stimulation
19. line 41. water appearance will increase fluid
20. various value density.
21. cementation factor 42. seismology
22. None 43. electromagnetic, seismic wave
23. specific energy 44. tidal correction, drift (tool corr.), free air
24. predicting pressure of bounded reservoir corr., bou guer corr., terrain corr. (altitude
from result of build up test. corr.)
25. type curve matching 45. Hagiwara
26. 251.5625 psi
27. Temperature Safety Element
28. vertical separator
29. predicting water production after water
breakthrough