COP History & Facts
ConocoPhillips is headquartered in this U.S. city.
What is Houston, Texas?
This acronym is the New York Stock Exchange symbol for ConocoPhillips.
What is COP?
This slang term refers to drilling mud.
What is “mud” or “goo”?
COP has significant operations in this country through its Surmont and Montney assets.
What is Canada?
This rotating tool at the bottom of the drill string does the actual cutting into the rock.
What is the drill bit?
Before merging, this Phillips brand was one of the most iconic gasoline retail names in the U.S.
What is Phillips 66?
This finance term uses the acronym DD&A.
What is depreciation, depletion, and amortization?
Roughnecks work here — the term for the floor where drilling operations occur.
What is the rig floor?
COP is a significant producer in this major southeast Texas oil play.
What is the Eagle Ford?
These large tanks store drilling fluids on site.
What are mud tanks?
This is the year ConocoPhillips was formed through the merger of Conoco Inc. and Phillips Petroleum.
What is 2002?
This common industry acronym refers to the part of the oil & gas business that discovers hydrocarbons and brings them to the surface.
What is E&P (exploration & production)?
This slang term refers to the uncontrolled flow of oil/gas from a well — a dangerous event requiring immediate action.
What is a blowout?
This Southeast Asian country is home to several COP exploration and production assets.
What is Malaysia?
This tall structure houses the hoisting equipment on a drilling site.
What is the derrick?
This is the business segment in which ConocoPhillips focuses most of its operations.
What is upstream exploration and production?
This acronym may sound familiar to mapmakers, but in geology it refers to a system used to collect, analyze, and visualize data about the Earth’s physical features.
What is GIS (Geographic Information System)?
This “horse‑related” term refers to the large beam pumping unit seen on many well sites.
What is a pumpjack?
ConocoPhillips operates the Greater Ekofisk Area, including the Ekofisk Complex, Eldfisk, Embla, Tor, and Tommeliten A, in this North Sea country.
What is Norway?
Operators watch this safety‑critical piece of equipment like a hawk—it’s responsible for sealing the well in emergencies.
What is the BOP? (Blowout Preventer)
This Alaskan field, the largest conventional oil field in the U.S., has long been a key COP asset.
What is Prudhoe Bay?
This two‑letter acronym is used to classify wells that are no longer producing but have not yet been plugged.
What is TA (temporarily abandoned)?
In oilfield slang, this “tree‑related” device controls flow at the wellhead.
What is a Christmas tree?
In the Sirte Basin, ConocoPhillips holds an interest in the Waha Concession—operated by Waha Oil Company under the national oil company—with crude that feeds the Es Sider export stream. Name the country.
What is Libya?
This downhole tool logs formation properties using electric or acoustic sensors.
What is a wireline logging tool?