Geology
An entity or property that differs from what is typical or expected, or which differs from that predicted by a theoretical model
anomaly
The gas stored in the pore space of a reservoir rock.
Interstitial Gas / Pore Gas
An agreement between the parties to a well or wells and a host country to utilize specified goods and services from that country
production service contract
SoCal took the name Chevron in 1984 when it merged with which company?
Gulf Oil
An expansion in oil volume that can occur when a solvent contacts a reservoir fluid
oil swelling
Pertaining to the environment of deposition of sediments by wind, such as the sand dunes in a desert.
aeolian / eolian
A map based on quantile values from the probabilities of the values of the data.
Quantile Map
An agreement between a host country and operator to allow the operator to evaluate geological, geophysical, engineering and transportation issues involving a concession
TEA / technical evaluation agreement
Containing 4% of world oil reserves and name this country covering 1/8 of the world inhabitable land area.
Russia
A dispersion of droplets of one liquid in another liquid with which it is incompletely miscible
emulsion
A minor, secondary fault, usually one of a set, whose sense of displacement is opposite to its associated major and synthetic faults
antithetic fault / synthetic fault
A form of kriging that involves multiple variables.
Cokriging
A budgetary document, usually prepared by the operator, to list estimated expenses of drilling a well to a specified depth, casing point or geological objective, and then either completing or abandoning the well
AFE / authority for expenditure
An ExxonMobil pipeline carrying oil from the Wabasca oil field in Canada had a leak on March 29, 2013. What is the name of the Arkansas town affected by the spill?
Mayflower, Arkansas
Pertaining to the preference of a solid to be in contact with an oil phase rather than a water or gas phase
oil wet
A sedimentary rock and a variety of quartz made of extremely fine-grained, or cryptocrystalline, silica, also called chalcedony
chert
Any model that incorporates more than one variable that is represented by fractal geometry or a fractal function.
Nested Fractal Structures
A percentage of ownership in an oil and gas lease granting its owner the right to explore, drill and produce oil and gas from a tract of property
working interest
What type of drilling method brought Jersey off the sidelines and into the game in 1928?
Underwater Drilling
An enhanced oil recovery technique in which a micelle solution is pumped into a reservoir through specially distributed injection wells
micellar polymer flooding
Pertaining to materials, particularly rock masses, that formed somewhere other than their present location, and were transported by fault movements, large-scale gravity sliding, or similar processes
allochtonous
A structure made up of a number of superposed domains, usually of different size or wavelength.
Domainal Fabric / Domainal Structure
Ownership by a lessee, company or working interest owner, which is burdened with the costs of leasing the acreage and drilling and operating a well
operating interest
Name the largest exporter of LNG.
Qatar
The flocculation of asphaltene particles from reservoir fluid
asphaltene precipitation