Midterm Oil and Gas QA 2022-23

1. What element did industrial chemist, Hermann Frasch II, remove from oil found at Lima, Ohio?

• iron
• calcium
• phosphate
• sulfur

2. When one of the adjacent landowners drills a well on his or her own property, that landowner may extract gas from the common pool without consent of the other landowner

• Right of ownership
• Right of capture
• Investment rights
• Terrestrial ownership

4. What is the difference between renewable and nonrenewable energy sources?

• Nothing, they are both easily replenished within our lifetime,
• Nothing, they both cannot be replenished within our lifetime.
• Renewable can be replenished within our lifetime, nonrenewable cannot.
• Nonrenewable can be replenished within our lifetime, renewable cannot.

5. What was the problem with the barrels used to contain petroleum back in the 1870's?

• The barrels leaked when filled causing crude oil to be wasted.
• The barrels were expensive to make because they were handmade and took awhile to make.
• The barrels were all a standard size, but the size was too large to safely handle and store.
• The barrels were of different sizes, so selling a barrel of oil was very confusing.

6. What size are modern day barrels?

• 30 gallons
• 38 gallons
• 42 gallons
• 55 gallons

7. Select everything from the list below that are involved in the process of how fossil fuels are formed?

• Organisms died and sank to the bottom of the sea
• Covered with sand and sediment which turned into sedimentary rock.
• Through heat and pressure exerted on the decaying materials, they became oil and natural gas.
• Organisms floated to the top of the ocean and drifted to shore where they were trapped.
• Cover and uncovered by ocean currents which added more decaying matter.

8. Which rock is similar to a sponge as it has holes which trap liquids and gases in them.

• solid
• porous
• sand
• nonporous

9. Which rock prevents liquid to flow through them, they either keep liquids and gases out or trap them under them preventing them from escaping.

• solid
• porous
• sand
• nonporous

10. What was disposed of during the refining process due a lack of use for it in the 1890's?

• diesel fuel
• kerosene
• gasoline
• crude oil

11. The ability or “desire” of a liquid to flow is called

• density
• viscosity
• permeability
• porosity