Names
Who is recognized as the founder of the modern petroleum industry?
Edwin Drake
In which year was the first oil well drilled in the United States?
1859
In the context of permeability, what does "mD" stand for?
Millidarcy
In heat transfer, which law states that heat flux is proportional to the negative of the temperature gradient?
Fourier’s Law
What is the petroleum engineering term for the total volume of petroleum expected to be ultimately recovered?
Ultimate recovery
Who formulated the equation for fluid flow through porous media?
Henry Darcy
When was the first insert bit introduced?
1949
What does 'Sg' represent in reservoir engineering?
Gas saturation
Which thermodynamic law states that the entropy of an isolated system always increases over time?
Second Law of Thermodynamics
What is the petroleum engineering term for classifying reserves based on the certainty of their recovery?
Reserve classification
What city was the site of the first commercial oil well in the United States?
Titusville
When did the Kuwait oil fires occur?
1991
What is the typical range of geothermal gradient in °C/km?
25–30 °C/km
In fluid mechanics, which principle explains that pressure decreases as fluid velocity increases along a streamline?
Bernoulli’s Principle
What is the petroleum engineering term for performing laboratory simulations of reservoir conditions on core samples?
Core flooding
Who was the Soviet geologist that promoted the abiogenic theory of petroleum origin?
Nikolai Kudryavtsev
In what year was the first rock bit with jet nozzles used?
1942
What is the typical API gravity range for heavy crude oil?
10° to 22.3° API
Which effect describes the reduction in pressure within a fluid stream when the fluid’s velocity increases?
Venturi Effect
What is the petroleum engineering term for assessing wettability using core samples?
Wettability test
Who was Lord Cullen in relation to offshore safety?
Judge who led Piper Alpha inquiry
In which year was the first PDC bit utilized?
1979
What is the SI unit of electrical resistance?
Ohm
Which equation relates capillary pressure between oil and water to the ratio of curvature and the interfacial tension at the oil–water interface?
Laplace equation
What is the petroleum engineering term for the microbial process that produces biosurfactants in situ?
In-situ biosurfactant production