1.
Work being conducted on a drilled well before production is initiated is
known as:
a. Workover
b. Completion
c. Snubbing
d. Squeezing cement
2. Work carried out that requires the well to be shut-in or killed and tubing and
Christmas tree to be pulled is known as:
a. Workover
b. Completion
c. Snubbing
3. Which of the below remedial operations are done during a Workover job>
a. Deepening
b. Pulling and resetting liners
c. Squeezing cement
d. All of the above
4. Which of the following will restrict or obstruct flow during production?
a. Paraffin
b. Scale
c. Sand
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
5. Which of the below is most often done during a workover job?
a. Pumping heavy mud down the annulus.
b. Killing the well.
c. Pulling tubing.
d. Removing the wellhead.
6. Larger tubing has lower frictional pressure because of lower hydrocarbon
velocities.
a. True
b. False
7. The limit of the amount of salt that can be dissolved in water is known as:
a. Crystallization
b. Max Brine Burst Pressure
c. Saturation Point
d. There is no limit
8. Does brine reach its saturation point at higher temperatures?
a. Yes
b. No
c. It doesn’t matter
9. Crystallization occurs at low temperature as salts become super saturated
and fall out.
a. True
b. False
10. How does temperature affect brines?
a. High temperature, higher density, low volume
b. High temperature, lower density, high volume
c. Low temperature, higher density, high volume
d. Temperature only affects brine in special areas of the world.
11. List the valves on the below Christmas tree:
A. Wing Valve
B1. Upper Master Valve
B2. Lower Master Valve
C. Swab or Crown Valve
D. Swab or Crown Cap
12. Which valve is used in emergencies only?
a. Wing valve
b. Upper master valve
c. Lower master valve
d. Crown valve
13. What item of equipment is used to circulate the annulus between the tubing
and the casing without unseating the packed or pulling the stringer or seal
nipple from the packer?
a. Mandrel
b. No-go nipple
c. Flexible packer
d. Sliding sleeve
14. Which are the most common well kill techniques used in workover
operations?
a. Reverse circulation and bullhead
b. Concurrent and dynamic kill
c. Forward circulation and W&W
d. Volumetric and lubricate & bleed
15. With the packer set in place, SICP while a well is on production could be an
indicator of the following:
a. Packer fluid is too heavy
b. An increase in formation
c. A packer failure or tubing leak
d. All of the above
16. Which of the following is a small threaded check valve installed through an
outlet of a wellhead valve used to isolate wellbore pressure?
a. Back pressure valve
b. Valve removal plug
c. Wing valve
d. Surface controlled subsurface safety valve
17. When removing a Xmas tree on a well with a recently tested SSSV,
according to industry best practices, a backpressure valve should also be
installed in the tubing hanger
a. True
b. False
18. What will be the gas migration rate in a clear fluid be compared to a drilling
mud (bentonite water-based mud)?
a. No different
b. Slower
c. Faster
19. What is the primary purpose of a lubricator?
a. To act as a barrier while rigging down the tubing head
b. Pressure containment device, allowing tools to be pulled above the
swab valve so that the valve can be closed
c. To act as a pressure barrier while reverse circulating from casing to
tubing
20. In order to kill a well by reverse circulation, the casing pressure is used
while pumping, to maintain BHP constant. But friction pressure in the
tubing may result in excessive BHP.
a. False
b. True
21. Well data:
Brine Weight – 10 ppg.
Well depth – 10,000 ft.
Calculated inside tubing pressure loss – 925 psi
Calculated annular pressure loss – 50 psi
You have just started up the pump to 3 bbls/min and have 975 psi
pump pressure
Calculate the current BHP with ‘conventional’ circulation.
a. 5200psi
b. 5250 psi
c. 6125 psi
d. 6175 psi
22. What is the lube and bleed technique?
a. A standard method of well control to kill the well while maintaining the
BHP constant
b. A remedial that can be carried out as the final stage of volumetric
control, when gas has migrated all the way up to the BOP
c. An operation performed to displace the well from light brine to heavier
brine fluid before the removal of the production tree
23. A wireline tool is being run into a pressured well. A lubricator is being used
together with a wireline BOP. How would you classify the wireline BOP as a
barrier?
a. Secondary
b. Tertiary
c. Primary
d. Auxiliary
24. Calculate the kill mud weight required to bullhead a well given the following
well information
a. Top perforations – 6000 ft TVD
b. Bottom perforations – 6250 ft TVD
c. Pore pressure gradient - .56 psi/ft.
d. Fracture gradient - .63 psi/ft
e. Packer set at 5800 ft TVD
f. EOT at 5900 TVD
g. SITP = 1100 psi
h. SICP = 0 psi
a. 11.1 ppg
b. 10.9 ppg
c. 10.8 ppg
d. 11.0 ppg
25. How do hydrates occur?
a. They form when methane or other gases combine with water at
specific pressure and temp conditions
b. They come from mixing with other gases in the well bore, for example,
with H2S or CO2
c. They occur when the temp drops to minus 200F.
26. The driller stabs into a production packer and releases the packer. Why
would he wait 30 mins before pulling the packer to surface?
a. To allow the packer element time to relax.
b. To allow for the weight on the string to balance out.
c. To allow enough time for the company to decide whether to pull or re-
engage the packer 5 feet higher.
d. 30 mins is the standard flow check according to API.
