Trivia (18th Feb)
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1. According Petrobowl, List the qualifiers regions: Asia Pacific,
Africa, Europe, Middle East, North America, Latin America and
Caribbean
2. According to the BP Statistical Review 2019. Name the gas
comsuption top 3 countries in 2018.: 1. United States, 2.
Russian Federation, 3. China
3. According to the BP Statistical Review 2019. Name the gas
production top 3 countries in 2018.: 1. United States, 2.
Russian Federation, 3. Iran
4. According to the BP Statistical Review 2019. Name the gas
reserve top 3 countries in 2018.: 1. Russian Federation, 2.
Iran,3. Qatar
5. According to the BP Statistical Review 2019. Name the oil
comsuption top 3 countries in 2018.: 1. China, 2. United States,
3. Russian Federation
6. According to the BP Statistical Review 2019. Name the oil
production top 3 countries in 2018.: 1. United States, 2. Saudi
Arabi, 3. Russian Federation,
7. According to the BP Statistical Review 2019. Name the oil
reserve top 3 countries in 2018.: 1. Venezuela, 2. Saudi Arabia,
3. Canada
8. ACCORDING TO THE SPE EVENT, NAME POLICY AND
MODIFICATIONS TO AN EXISTING CONFERENCE EVENT
NAME MUST HAVE THE APPROVAL OF WHO?: CHIEF
OPERATION OFFICER
9. According to the SPE event naming policy ,name the event
with specific predefined objectives. It is a fast-track
response to emerging issues, problems, technologies, and
strategies of broad significance: Summit
10. According to the SPE event, What does the acronym ATCE
stand for?: Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition
11. According to the SPE. In how many regions in divided the
world.: 15
12. According to the SPE's 2019 year-end summary. How many
sections have the SPE?: 203
13. According to the SPE's 2019 year-end summary. How many
students chapters have the SPE?: 431
14. According to the SPE's 2019 year-end summary. In how
many countries does SPE has either a section or a chapter?:
154 countries
15. acording to an spe event name policy all event tittle must
begin with what?: SPE
16. acording to an SPE event, what does OTC stand for?:
Offshore Technology Conference
17. acording to the SPE event naming policy name the event
that is taught by instructors who are subject matter experts
covering all six SPE technical disciplines as well as several
nontechnical topics.: Training Course
18. Acording to the SPE event naming policy ,name the event
type that promotes the exchange of of technical
knowledge on current and proven technologies through
technical paper presentation.: Conference
19. AIME, the original Organization of SPE, was founded in which
Pennsylvania city?: Wilkes Bare (1871)
20. At March 4th, 2016 the world most vessel ...floating LNG
vessel was born. For ten points. What is the official name
for this vessel ?: PETRONAS Floating LNG1 (PFLNG1)
21. Bob Garett invent this instrument that allows quantity
analysis of sulfides and carbonates in water base and oil
base drilling mud? Name the Instrument: Garett Gas Train
22. Ceramic proppant was born in the mid 1970´s when sintered
bauxite was first introduced as a proppant material in
hydraulic fracturing, which individual or company patented
the pumping of sintered bauxite?: Exxon Production
Research Company
23. The first oil tanker Murex pass through the Suez Canal in
1892. Who design this tanker? what company did eventually
he Create?: Marcus Samuels, Shell
24. First tried in 1972 in Scurry County, Texas, what method of
EOR has been used successfully throughout the Permian
Basin of West Texas and New Mexico?: CO2 Injection
25. The first well log was obtain in 1927 in France. For ten points
explain, What is name of the field where it was obtain ?:
Pechelbronn oil field
26. FOR 3 POINTS EACH. NAME 3 OF THE SPE MAGAZINES:
JPT, The Way Ahead, Oil and Gas Facilities, HSE Now
27. For 5 points each or ten points en total. Name two of the
schools that have won petrobowl for each of the past five
years 2015-2019: Louisiana State University, Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México, Universidade Federal Do Rio
De Janeiro
28. For 10 points in what pressure range is the piece square
aproximation for the suitable pressure gas internal value?:
Less than 2000 psi
29. For any given geographical area from an individual oil
producing region to the planet as a whole, the rate of
petroleum production tends to follow a bell shaped curve
this is one of the primary theories on peak oil what theory
does it refer to?: Hubbert Peak's Theory
30. For five points each, name the field where oil production
first occurs and give the year.: Oil Creek , 1859
31. For five points each. Name the state and year in which the
first hydraulic fracture treatment was pumped?: Kansas 1947
32. For five points each. Name the two universities Jhon D.
Rockefeller is responsible for founded ?: University of
Chicago and Rockefeller University
33. For five points each or ten points in total. Name two of the
four cities of the last four years of the Petrobowl ATCE.:
Calgary (2019), San Antonio (2018), Dallas (2017), Dubai (2016)
34. For five points, identify the first chairman of the OPEC
board of governors, and for five more points, identify the
country where he was from.: Fuad Rouhani , Iran
35. For five points, identify the year in which the Standard Oil
Company was stablished. For five more points, in which year
it was disolved ?: 1870 and 1911
36. For five points. What rig was responsible for the first
offshore blowout in 1955, for an additional five point what
company owns that rig ?: S-44, Chevron
37. For ten points. In 1856, where was the first crude oil refinery
in the world set off.: Ploesti, Romany
38. For ten points. Name the only South America Country which
are included in OPEC: Venezuela
39. For ten points: Name the region in Venezuela with the world
largest deposits of petroleum.: Orinoco Belt
40. For ten points. What is the API specifications for Cements
and Materials for Well Cementing ?: API Specification 10A
41. For ten points. What is the name for the 2010 informatory
documentary by Josh Fox based on miss information that
treathen fracture stimulation in the United States in 2015.:
Gas Land
42. For ten points. What is the world's first floating LNG facility
called and who operated it ?: SATU, Petronas
43. For ten points. What was the name for the first SPE
monograph ?: Pressure Buildup and Flow Tests in Wells (1967)
44. For ten points. What year did Jacques Bossio become SPE
first non-US President ?: 1993
45. For ten points. What year was SPE Kuala Lumpur´s Office
open ?: 1995
46. For ten points. What year was the first A.P.O.G.C.E. helds ?:
1989
47. For ten points. What year was the first Latin American and
Caribean Petroleum Engineering Conference held ?: 1998
48. For ten points. Which country was inducted into OPEC in
2017.: Equatorial Guinea
49. For ten points. Which major oilfield with a stock tank original
oil in place of 56.4 billion barrels which was discovered in
1969 in the North Sea Region.: Ekofisk Oil Field
50. For ten points. Who is the actual 2020 Chief Executive of
British Petroleum Company?: Meet Bernard
51. For ten points. Who is the CEO of Oasis Group ?: Espen
Halvorsen
52. For three points each or ten in total. Name three economic
parameters for decision making in oil and gas sector.: Net
present value, Internal rate of return, Profit-to-investment ratio
53. For three points each or ten in total. Name three non-profit
professional societies in which AIME is a federation of
today.: Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE with 110,000
members), the Association of Iron and Steel Technology (AIST
with 15,000 members), the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and
Exploration (SME, 14,000 members), and The Minerals, Metals
and Materials Society (TMS with 12,000 members)+
54. For three points each or ten in total. Name three of the six
types Oil events according to the SPE event naming
policy.: Conferences, Summit, Training Courses
55. For three points each or ten in total. Name three values of
SPE.: Excellence; Integrity; Professionalism; Lifelong learning;
Diversity; Volunteerism; Innovation.; Social Responsibility.
56. For three points each or ten in total. Name within five years.
What year was the PDC cutter bit commercially introduced
to market. Which corporation develope and introduce it and
What does PDC stand for ?: 1. 1972; 2. General Electric
Company (GEC); 3. polycrystalline diamond compact
57. For three points each or ten points in total. List the three
founder societies of the United Engineering Society.:
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE); The
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum
Engineers (AIME); American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE);
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
58. For three points each or ten points in total. List the three
woman who were honorary SPE members.: DeAnn Craig,
Kate Hadley, Mary Wheeler
59. For three points each or ten points in total. Name three
method an employer must follow to determine the hazard
of the process being analyzed.: Risk, danger control,
possible effects.
60. For three points each. Which three countries were the
biggest oil supplier for China.: Russia, Saudi Arabia, Angola
61. For two points each. Name any five non-middle eastern
OPEC members.: Venezuela, Nigeria, Algeria, Lybia, Congo,
Equatorial Guinea
62. For two points each or ten all five. Name five cities that are
the locations of SPE offices.: Calgary, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur,
Houston, London, Moscow, Dallas
63. For two points each or ten in total. Name 4 technical
resources available to SPE members.: onepetro, petrowiki,
JPT, inventory
64. Four countries in the middle east recently cut diplomatic
ties with one of the world's top natural gas producing
nation. For ten points. Name that nation.: Qatar
65. The headquarter of Standard Oil company move from Ohio
in 1885, to which city in the USA.: New York
66. Herny Darcy began his work on an equation for fluid flow
while designing the fountain of this french city.: Dijon
67. How many large of the SPE board directors exist?: 2
Directors
68. How many SPE regional directors are in the SPE Board of
directors: 16
69. How much was British Petroleum order to pay during
Macondo Oil Spill ?: $ 20 million
70. HSSE-SR is a commonly field acronym. For ten point. What
is this abbreviated ?: Health, Safety, Security, Environment and
Social Responsibility
71. Hydraulic fracturing was first conducted on a Kelpper Nº 1
well in Grant County, in Western Kansas in 1947. What is the
name of the gasfield?: Hugoton Field
72. Identify the first chairman of the OPEC board of governors
and Identify the country where he was from?: Fuad Rouhani
and iranian
73. Identify the total measured depth and the horizontal reach
in meters for the longest oil well of the world which is
based on chayvo field: the depth is 13 500 meters and the
horizontal reach is 12 033 meters
74. Identify the year in which Standard Oil Company was
established and in which year was it dissolved?: It was
created in 1870 and it was dissolved in 1911
75. If an operator signs to pay an exact cost to a contractor,
regardless of any possible new expenses, the transaction is
known as what?: TurnKey
76. In 1886, the Rothschild form the Caspian and Black Sea
Petroleum Company, this company was more well Known as
what initials?: BNITO
77. In 1927 British Petroleum Company drill the discovery well in
Iraq which ...: Baba Gurgur Nº1
78. In 2009, there was 163 deep water drilling permits in the
Gulf of Mexico, following the tragic Macondo Blowout ,
What was the 2010 numbers of drilling permits that was
taken for the Gulf of Mexico ?: 74
79. In August 2012, a major explosion .. in a Venezuela refinery.
Name this refinery.: Amuay Oil Refinery
80. in what decade Mexico create Pemex: 1940's (1943 )
81. In what year did Jhon D. Rockefeller founded the Standard
Oil Company ?: 1870
82. In what year the offshore drilling began.: 1897
83. In what year was hydraulic fracturing firts used: 1947
84. In what year was the first petrobowl competition
organised,addittionally who was the winner that year?: 2002
Texas Tech University
85. In what year was the Society of Petroleum Engineer
Organization founded ?: 1957
86. In which state of the United States the first well was drilled
?: Pennsylvania
87. In which year Schlumberger merged with Smith International
?: 2010 (27 august)
88. In which year was OnePetro, a multisociety library, launched
with support from SPE's Foundation ?: 2007
89. In which year was Texaco merged with Chevron Corporation
?: 2001
90. Known as the father of soil mechanics who developed the
concept of effective stress.: Karl Von Terzaghi
91. List three items that must be included when preparing an
investigation report for an incident.: Inmediate causes,
Underlying causes, Recommendations and Resposibilities
92. Name any five non middle eastern OPEC members:
Venezuela, Nigeria, Argelia, Libya, Congo and Equatorial
Guinea
93. Name five cities that are the location of SPE officers.:
Houston, Dallas, Calgary, Kuala Lumpur, Moscu, Dubai,
London
94. Name the oil company that merge with total in 1999:
Petrofina
95. Name the OPEC member country that suspended its
membership from December 1992 until October 2007.:
Ecuador
96. Name the scientist who showed that the common
mathematical of heat tranfer could be modified to
adequately describe fluid flow in porous media. The
scientist was French.: Henry Darcy
97. Sustainability is the development that mix the needs of the
present with the compromising the ability of future
generation to meet. For three points each or ten in total.
Name three pillars of sustainability.: Social , Enviromental
and Economic
98. This k-factor often used in reservoir engineering
applications relates particle energy to temperature and is
named after this Austrian physicist.: Ludwig Boltzmann
99. This sand from St. Peters sandstone is used as proppant in
hydraulic fracturing in the USA and gets its name from this
city in Illinois. Name the city.: Ottawa
100. What are the four major key performance indexes for an Oil
and Gas project ?: Cost, Safety, Schedule, Production
101. What are the three letters of the acronym DDA pertaining
to the petroleum economics?: Depreciation, depletion, and
amortization
102. What company has the largest crude oil reserves?: Saudi
Aramco
103. What does HSSE stand for?: Health, Safety, Security &
Environment
104. What do we call a percentage of ownership in an oil and
gas lease granting the right to explore, drill and produce oil
and gas from a track or property ?: Working Interest
105. What important took place in 1961 for the SPE?: The first
Regional Petroleum Technology Meeting
106. What is an ESP? Who invented it? Where was it first
successfully implimented?: Electric Submersibile Pump;
Armais Arutunoff, Kansas
107. What is Jhon D. Rockefeller middle name ?: Davison
108. What is the deepest offshore floating gas platform in the
world ?: Atlantis (BP)
109. What is the earliest form of surveying tool use in the oil
industry. This technique was also used in the mining industry
in the 1920´s.: Acid Bottle
110. what is the name for the classification system used for
carbonate sedimentary rocks developed in (1962)?: Dunham
classification, Robert J. Dunham
111. What is the name for the giant field discovery kazakhstan...:
Kashagan (2000, Caspian Sea)
112. What is the name for the right to exploit, mine or produce
minerals lying beneath the surface of a property.: Mineral
Interest
113. What is the name of the first woman who assume the
president of the SPE?: DeAnn Craig, 1998
114. What is the name of the giant Field discovered in
kazakhstan in the Caspian Sea in 2000 ?: Kashagan field
115. What is the name of the world's largest integration of
geotechnical, survey, subsea and geosciences services ?:
Fugro
116. What is the present name of the vessel that was involved in
the famous Exxon Valdez oil spill ?: Oriental Nicety
117. What is the state Oil Company of Malaysia and at which
decade was founded?: PETRONAS - 1974
118. What is the term used by Mobil Oil company first in the
early 1980´s for drilling directional wells in which the
drilled horizontal reach (HR) attained at total (TD) depth
exceeded the true vertical depth (TVD) by a factor greater
than or equal to 2.: Extended Reach Drilling
119. What is the title for SPE magazine that is specifically for
young professionals: The way ahead
120. What is the world first floating LGN facility called?: SATU
121. What is the world's offshore disaster about lives lost?: The
Piper Alpha, 167 people lost their lives in July 1988
122. What is this statement: Enable the global oil and gas E&P
industry to share technical knowledge needed to meet the
world's energy needs in a safe and environmentally
responsible manner: SPE's Vision
123. What is this statement :To collect, disseminate, and
exchange technical knowledge concerning the exploration,
development and production of oil and gas resources, and
related technologies for the public benefit; and to provide
opportunities for professionals to enhance their technical
and professional competence.: SPE´s Mission
124. What method whose assumptions are: Stable displacement
in inclined systems, vertical equilibrium, piston
displacement and negligible capillary pressure?: the Dietz
method
125. What type of requirement under the API specifications is
the annular blowout preventer made to meet.: API standard
53
126. What type of rig was the Piper Alpha which exploded on
July 6th 1988 killing 167 people ?: Platform
127. What unwelcome byproduct of the kerosene refining
process became a desirable fuel in about 1915?: Gasoline
128. Which API recommended practice provide guides for the
design in use of various hazard analysis techniques of
offshore production facilities.: API RP 14J
129. Which City Hosted ATCE 2019?: Calgary (Canada)
130. Which City Hosted ATCE 2019?: Calgary, Canada
131. Which companies is merged in 2001-2002 to form the sixth
largest publically traded oil company in the world at that
time ?: ConocoPhillips
132. Which hazards analysis technique focuses on deviation for a
nor ....: HAZOP (The Hazard and Operability analysis)
133. Which offshore incident results in the highest death total in
the oil and gas industry?: The Piper Alpha, 167 people lost
their lives in July 1988
134. Which type of reserves does the SEC allow oil companies
to report?: Proved
135. Who applied the equation of hyperbole to define 3 general
equations to model ....: JJ Adams 1944
136. Who invented the first two cone bit in 1909 ?: Howard
Hughes Jr.
137. Who is the CEO of ConocoPhillips ?: Ryan Lance
138. Who is the first female winner of the distinguished
achievement award for petroleum engineering faculty in
1982.: Christine A. Ehlig-Economides
139. Who is the french engineer who first invented a rotary type
pump to be used extensively in the world war II planes as
superchargers.: Rene Moineau
140. Who is the French engineer who first invented ... MARCEL AND CONRAD SCHLUMBERGERS: Their inventions in the area of
geophysics and well logging were the beginnings of Schlumberger Well Services and the entire well logging industry ?: Marcel
Schlumberger
141. Who is the SPE president 2020: Shauna Noonan, Occidental Petroleum
142. Who is the SPE president 2020?: Shauna Noonan
143. Who is the SPE president 2021?: Tom Blasingame (Texas A&M University)
144. Who was the 2018 SPE president ?: Darcy Spady
145. Who won the Petrobowl Championship the most times ?: Colorado School of Mines and University of Oklahoma
146. Who won the Petrobowl Championship the most times?: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, University of Oklahoma,
Colorado School of Mines, Texas A&M University. Three times each.
147. within the oil and gas industry. What is the acronym PPE ?: Personal Protective Equipment
148. With respect to an SPE event name , what does APOGCE stand for?: Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition (APOGCE)
149. With respect to an SPE event name , what does OE stand for?: Offshore Events
150. With respect to an SPE events name. What does IPTC stand for?: International Petroleum Technology Conference
151. With respect to SPE Board Committee, what does TPM stand for ?: Training, Programs and Meetings
152. With respect to SPE Event name what does LACPEC Stand For?: Latin America and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference.
153. with respect to the SPE board commitee. What does MP stand for ?: Member Program