Petroleum Engineering
UT Austin
Oil and Gas History
Professor's Universities
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100

This law describes fluid flow through porous media.

What is Darcy's Law?

100

This engineering ranking consistently places UT in the global top 10.

What is petroleum engineering?

100

This organization, founded in 1960, coordinates oil production among member nations.

What is OPEC?

100

The university that Dr. Michael Pyrcz received his PhD in Geostastics.

What is the University of Alberta?

100
The most populated state in the US.

What is California?


200

This decline model asymptotically approaches exponential decline as its exponent approaches zero.

What is hyperbolic decline?

200

This year marks the founding of The University of Texas at Austin.

What is 1883?

200

This offshore drilling disaster in 2010 reshaped U.S. safety regulations.

What is the Deepwater Horizon explosion? 

200

The university that Dr. Matthew Balhoff received his BS in Chemical Engineering

What is Louisiana State University (LSU)?

200

According to the U.S. Constitution, the president is part of this branch of government.

What is the Executive branch?

300

This parameter controls the slope of a semilog straight-line in radial flow well-test analysis.

What is permeability?

300

This UT research campus houses applied energy and geoscience work.

What is the Pickle Research Campus?

300

This field pioneered secondary recovery through waterflooding.

What is the East Texas oil Field or "Black Giant" or the "joiner field"?

300

The university that Professor Byron Haynes received his MS in Petroluem Engineering

What is the University of Texas at Austin?

300

This animal is known as the largest land mammal.

What is the African elephant?


400

This flow regime is characterized by a flat derivative on a pressure derivative plot.

What is infinite-acting radial flow?

400

What year was the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering most recently renamed to the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering?

What is 2017?

400

This year marks the discovery of Spindletop, igniting the Texas oil boom.

What is 1901?

400

The university that Dr. Hugh Daigle received his AB in Earth and Planetary Sciences.

What is Harvard University?

400

The European country with the capital Bern.

What is Switzerland?


500

This plot linearizes radial diffusivity solutions for well testing.

What is the Horner plot?

500

This UT athletics conference currently includes the Longhorns.

What is the SEC?

500

This offshore oil province transformed European energy supply.

What is the North Sea?

500

The university that Dr. Larry Lake received his BSE in Chemical Engineering.

What is Arizona State University?

500
The first American to go to space.

Who is Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.?

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