99 Oil And Gas Industry Trivia Questions with Answers
99 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What is the petroleum industry term for crude oil and natural gas found in the same reservoir?
Answer
Associated petroleum gas
Which company built the first successful commercial oil well in the United States in 1859?
Answer
Seneca Oil Company
Which process converts natural gas into liquid hydrocarbons using synthesis gas and catalysts?
Answer
Fischer–Tropsch process
In the oil and gas industry, what does the abbreviation API stand for?
Answer
American Petroleum Institute
Which refinery process removes sulfur from petroleum products using hydrogen?
Answer
Hydrodesulfurization
Which offshore oil field became Norway’s first producing field?
Answer
Ekofisk field
What refining process uses a catalyst to convert heavy hydrocarbons into lighter fuels?
Answer
Fluid catalytic cracking
Which international agency was created in 1974 in response to the 1973 oil crisis?
Answer
International Energy Agency
Which oil field is Kuwait’s largest and one of the world’s largest oil fields?
Answer
Burgan field
What company was broken up by a 1911 U.S. Supreme Court antitrust ruling?
Answer
Standard Oil
What is the name of the pipeline system that carries crude oil from Russia to parts of Europe?
Answer
Druzhba pipeline
What is the name of the oil-recovery method that injects steam to drain bitumen from deep Canadian oil sands?
Answer
Steam-assisted gravity drainage
How many U.S. gallons are in the standard petroleum barrel used by the oil industry?
Answer
42 U.S. gallons
What process cools natural gas into a liquid for easier transport?
Answer
Liquefaction
What hydrocarbon makes up most of natural gas?
Answer
Methane
Which 1956 theory predicted that United States oil production would reach a peak around 1970?
Answer
Hubbert peak theory
What was the name of the first LNG carrier, which transported liquefied natural gas in 1959?
Answer
Methane Pioneer
What process separates crude oil into useful products by heating it in a refinery?
Answer
Fractional distillation
What was the name of the oil rig involved in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster?
Answer
Deepwater Horizon
What is the name of the 1,287-kilometre pipeline that carries crude oil across Alaska?
Answer
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System