PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

1. The hot oil theory advocates that solubility of crude oil in water do not become
significant until about
a. 50c
b. 75c
c. 100c
d. 150c
2. Presence of micelles in crude oils
a. increases solubility in water
c. floats in water

b. decreases solubility in water

d. suspended in water

3. Which theory advocates that, primary migration of oil occur as a continuous phase but
not as descrete globules in water
a. Hot theory
b. Greesy wick theory
c. Micelle theory
d. None of these theories
4. The presence of carbon dioxide gas in oil
a. Enhances oil mobility
b. Increases water mobility
c. Increases oil density
d. Increases water density
5. Emigration of hydrocarbons from source beds to carrier beds is known as
a. Entrapment
b. Accumulation
c. Secondary migration
d. Primary migration
6. The term Protopetroleum refers to
a. Post phase of petroleum
b. Prior phase of petroleum
c. Transitional phase of petroleum d. Destructive phase of petroleum
7. Carrier beds are
a. H.C trapping beds
c. Spill point bed
8. The abbreviation SPI refers to
a. Specific Productivity Index
c. Self Potential Index

b. Free path ways for migration

d. None of the above
b. Source Potential Index
d. Specific Porosity Index

9. Cul-de-sac Pores are those pores

a. Which have only one throat passage b. Which have more than one throat
passage
c. Which have no communication with other pores
d. None of the above
10. Inter granular porosity is associated with
a. Secondary porosity
b. Primary porosity
c. Fracture porosity
d. Solution porosity

11. Fracture porosity occurs due to

a. Sedimentation
b. Solution
c. Tectonics
d. Cementation
12. Selective leaching of only grains or only matrix results in
a. Moldic porosity
b. Fenestral porosity
c. Intragranular porosity
d. Inter crystalline porosity
13. With increasing size, Vuggy porosity changes to
a. Frature porosity
b. cavernous porosity
c. Fenestral porosity
d. Moldic porosity
14. With increasing grain size, porosity and Permeability
a. Decreases
b. Increases
c. No changes
d. None of these
15. As sorting decreases, the porosity and permeability
a. Decreases
b. Increases
c. No changes
d. None of these
16. Highest porosities are observed in grain packing geometries of
a. Rhombohedral style
b. Orthogonal style
c. Cubic style
d. Spherical
17. Oil window is refersed to
a. Metagenetic stage
c. Catagenetic stage

b. Diagenetic stage
d. Metamorphism

18. The oil window is deeper and thicker when

a. Geo temperature gradients are low
are high
c. Geo pressure gradients are high.

b.Geo temperature gradients

d. Geo pressure gradients are low

19. Kerogenes having higher originally higher hydrogen content and low oxygen content
are categorized as:
a. Type I
b. Type II
c. Type III
d. Type IV
20. Transformation ratio of kerogen conversion into H.C is
a. S1: (S1+S2)
b. S1: (S2+S3)
c. S2: (S2+S3)
d. S3: (S1+S2)
21. In pyrolysis of rock sample by Rock-Eval instrument,S1 peak represents, release of
H.C at temperature:

a. 500c
c. 250c

b. 350c-460c
d. 100c

22. Hydrogen Index of kerogen related to ratio of:

a. H/C and O/C
b. O/C and H/C
c N/C to O/C
d. S/H
23. Ro value by vitrinite reflectance of kerogen during catagenetic stage of oil
generation, ranges:
a. 0.5-0.7
b. 0.7-1.3
c. 1.3-2.0
d. >2.0
24. Flower structures are associated with:
a. Normal faults
b. Transverse faults
b. Tensional faults
d. Overthrust faults
25. Roll over anticlines are associated with
a. Growth faults
b. Transverse faults
c. Overthrust faults
d. Extensional faults
26. Splitting of basin floor into horsts and grabens is due to
a. Subduction of plate tectonics
b. Crustal tension
c. Compressional force
d. None
27. Crustal Shortening causes
a. Anticlinal traps
b. Reef traps

b. Unconformity traps
d. None

28. In Growth faults, fault movements is

a. Synchronous with deposition
b. Not related to deposition
c. due to tectonics
d. None of the above
29. Regressive overlap is termed as
a. Onlap
b. Offlap
c. Overstep
d. Wedge
30. Beds above and below the unconformity are parallel in the case of
a. Nonconformity
b. Angular unconformity
c. Disconformity
d. None
31. Basement igneous rock may become a reservoir rock when it is
a. Fractured
b. Folded
c. Faulted
d. None
32. Barrier bar sand exhibit

a. Upward grain size coarsening

c. Alternation of grain sizes

b. Down ward grain size coarsening

d. Mixture of all grain sizes

33. Sealing capacity of a cap rock increases as

a. Capillary pressure decreases
b. Capillary pressure increases
c. Buoyancy of H.C increases
d. Relative permeability decreases
34. In water wet rocks, the contact angle of oil-water interface with the solid rock is
a. Acute angle
b. Right angle
c. Obtuse angle
d. No angle
35. Irreducible water saturation increases as
a. Capillary pressures are less
b. Water saturation increases
c. Capillary pressures are more
d. Oil saturation is less
36. Shoestring sands have length width ratio
a. 1:1
b. >3:1
c. <3:1
d. 1:3
37. The geometry of shoestring sand is
a. U shaped
b. rounded
c. Elongated ribbon d. lens
38. The term Biostrome is used when reef deposit shape is:
a. Spherical
b. Mounded
c. Bedded
d. Round
39. Bioherm is a reef deposit whose shape is:
a. Mounded
b. Flat
c. Circular
d. Square
40. Dolomitisation process involves, substitution of calcium atoms in CaCO3 with
a. Iron
b. Manganese
b. Magnesium
d. Silica
41. Fore reef is
a. Sea ward flank
c. Lagoon side

b. Landside flank
d. Delta side

42. Point bar deposits are associated with

a. Braided streams
b. Meandering rivers
c. Deltas
d. Marine shelf
43. Prodelta deposits mainly consist of
a. Sandstone
b. Limestone

c. Shales

d. Coals

44. In an area where sedimentary rocks are exposed, the subsurface Geology is worked
out by
a. Seismic survey
b. Gravity survey
c. Magnetic survey
d. Geological Field mapping
45. In an area of Geological Field mapping, Dip Reversal is interpreted as a :
a. Unconformity
b. Fault
b. Stratigraphic Trap
d. Anticline
46. In an area where there are no exposures of sedimentary rocks, the subsurface
Geology is worked out by
a. Gravity survey
b. Magnetic survey
c. Telluric survey
d. Seismic survey
47. True dip of a bed means
a. Dip measured along the strike of a bed
b. Dip measured perpendicular to the strike of the bed.
c. Dip measured in any direction of the bed.
d. None of the above
48. In traversing, the thickness of a dipping bed is measured as:
a. True thickness
b. Horizontal thickness
c. Vertical thickness
d. Apparent thickness
49. In a symmetric anticline, the dip of the beds of both the flanks is
a. Variable
b. Not equal
c. Similar
d. None of the above
50. In geological Field mapping, the location of survey first of all is identified on the:
a. Survey sheet
b. Toposheet
c. Field sheet
d. None of the above
KEY
PES 102: Petroleum Geology
1.d

2.a
3.b
4.a
5.d
5

6.c
7.b
8.b
9.a
10.b
11.c
12.a
13.b
14.b
15.a
16.c
17.c
18.a
19.a
20.a
21.c
22.a
23.b
24.b
25.a
26.b
27.a
28.a
29.b
30.c
31.a
32.a
33.b
34.a
35.c
36.b
37.c
38.c
39.a
40.b
41.a
42.b
43.c
44.d
45.d
46.d
47.b
48.d
49.c
50.b