History of O&G
Geology and Seismic
Rigs and Drilling
Sub-Sea Infrastructure
Refining
100
Native Americans used asphaltium to make the insides of boats and baskets what?
What is water proof?
100
That science dealing with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
What is Geophysics?
100
Similar to the terminology we use in consulting when referring to labor sourcing, oil and gas are said to be produced here or out there.
What is onshore or offshore?
100
This festively named structure is attached to the top of a wellhead to control pressure and flow in and out of a well.
What is a Christmas Tree?
100
This is the simplest hydrocarbon.
What is Methane, CH4?
200
This kind of lamp spurred the uptick in demand for oil in 1854.
What is Kerosene
200
This rock component of a prospect is porous, allowing oil and gas to migrate and reside in it.
What is reservior rock?
200
These towers, whose name is characteristic of their flexibility, are built to sustain significant lateral deflections and forces out in the ocean.
What are compliant towers?
200
This structure is connected via jumpers to wellheads and Christmas trees to distribute power and resources to equipment on the sea floor.
What is a manifold?
200
This process in which heavy oils are heated in pressurized reactors to ‘split’, larger hydrocarbon molecules into smaller, lighter fuel. Unlike Innovation Designers, they do this under pressure.
What is Cracking or Thermal Cracking?
300
This person founded Standard Oil, becoming the world's first Oil Baron.
Who is John D. Rockefeller
300
This characteristic of the rock is what makes a seal, a seal.
What is impermeability?
300
Offshore floaters and Drillships are outfitted with this technology, allowing them to maintain their position over the well.
Dynamic Positioning Systems
300
This device installs, maintains, and operates all the subsea equipment. Some might say that it allows offshore divers to stay home and work in PJs like the rest of us.
What is a Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV)?
300
This, known by the stock ticker WTI, is the main oil benchmark for North America as it is sourced from the United States, primarily from the Permian Basin.
What is West Texas Intermediate?
400
This Venetian explorer, the namesake of a children's game, discovered oil being used to treat camels for mange in the Caspian Sea region.
Who is Marco Polo?
400
This type of well, also the name of the mascot in High School Musical, is an exploration well. One in which little- if anything- about the subsurface geology is known with certainty.
What is a wildcat?
400
This statue of an oil and gas roughneck, playfully nicknamed "The Stripper," immortalizes the history of rig operations. The statue lives outside the petroleum engineering building of this prestigious university.
What is Texas A&M University?
400
This body of water contains the world's deepest subsea well. The Shell Oil Company operates this well 9,627 feet below the water's surface.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
400
This is the number of gallons in a standard barrel of oil. Hint: If oil is at $100 per barrel, a gallon would be $2.38
What is 42?
500
Today, this organization, known as OPEC for short, has 15 member countries, accounting for approximately 44% of global oil production and 81.5% of the world’s oil reserves.
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
500
This stage, the finale of the exploration journey, can take 10-15+ years to get to.
What is production?
500
In 2016, this company responsible for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, agreed to pay $20.8 billion in fines which is the largest corporate settlement in United States history.
What is BP?
500
This is the average number of employees on an offshore oil rig. (An answer within 10 of the true average constitutes a correct answer.)
What is 79.2 employees?
500
This is foul-smelling gas that is added to natural gas.
What is Mercaptan, also known as methanethiol (Sulfur)?