Exploration
This is the study of the Earth's physical structure and substances used to identify oil and gas potential.
What is geology.
After exploration, this type of well is drilled to confirm the presence of hydrocarbons.
What is an appraisal well?
These wells are drilled to begin producing hydrocarbons after appraisal.
What are development wells?
This natural resource is brought to the surface through production wells.
What is crude oil or natural gas?
This is the headquarters city of Aramco.
What is Dhahran?
This is where hydrocarbons accumulate in.
What is reservoir rock?
Aramco conducts this downhole test to evaluate flow rates and reservoir pressure.
What is a well test?
This document is used to outline a long-term strategy for field infrastructure and well planning.
What is FDP (field development plan)
Aramco uses this method, like ESPs or gas lifts, when natural pressure is insufficient.
What is artificial lift?
This is the name of the global organization that coordinates oil policies among major producers.
What is OPEC?
In which phase of the Upstream lifecycle is the exploratory well drilled?
What is exploration?
Aramco builds these detailed digital models to simulate reservoir behavior.
What is a reservoir simulation model?
Aramco uses these long-reach wells to maximize contact with the reservoir.
What are horizontal or extended-reach wells?
This method involves injecting fluids to maintain reservoir pressure and increase recovery.
What is water or gas injection (secondary recovery)?
This is the largest conventional oil field in the world.
What is Ghawar Field?
These types of surveys use sound waves to map underground rock formations.
What are seismic surveys?
Aramco analyzes these two key reservoir qualities to assess production potential.
What are porosity and permeabilty?
Aramco installs these offshore structures to support drilling and production in deep waters.
Which are fixed platforms or jackets.
This system collects real-time data from production wells to optimize output.
What is an intelligent fiels (i-field) system?
This is the name of Aramco's digital platform that integrates exploration and production data.
What is GigaPOWERS or Expec Arc?
This statiscal tool helps predict the chance of commercial quantities of hydrocarbons.
What is a prospect risk analysis.
Aramco integrates data from wells, cores, logs and seismic to produce this type of volumetric estimate.
What is oil/gas in place (OGIP) or (OOIP)
This financial metric is used by aramco to assess the profitability of development projects.
What is net present value (NPV)?
Aramco monitors this KPI to determine how efficiently hydrocarbons are being recovered.
What is recovery factor?
This deepwater oil spill in 2010 is one of the largest environmental disasters in histroy.
What is the Deepwater Horizon spill or the BP oil spill?