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History of Oil of Saudi Arabia

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 41mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

King Abdulaziz knew the importance of oil when

a)

The Allied forces who had an adequate oil supply won World War I

b)

he needed money

2.

vIn May 1923, King Abdulaziz met with ....................., a mining engineer and with him an agreement to search for oil.

a)

Karl Twitchell

b)

Frank Holmes

3.

During the 1920s, there was plenty of oil available in America, and petroleum and oil companies were not convinced that there was oil in Saudi Arabia

a)

true

b)

false

4.

The number of pilgrims had dropped from around 100,000 a year to fewer than .........................

a)

20,000

b)

40,000

5.

On February 1931, King Abdulaziz came to an agreement with ........................., an American tycoon.

a)

Charles Crane

b)

Karl Twitchell

6.

The agreement allowed one of Crane's engineers, Karl Twitchell, to search for ...................... in Arabia.

a)

Oil and gas

b)

artesian wells

7.

In 1933, the agreement with SOCAL was the beginning of the search for oil in Saudi Arabia.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Saudi Arabia the world's largest oil producer' owning ............... of the world's oil.

a)

one-third

b)

one-quarter

9.

................ from the Ujman tribe was an expert in cross-desert navigation and he became invaluable to the geologists.

a)

Khamis ibn Rimthan

b)

Abdullah Sulaiyman

10.

Ghawar is the .................. oil deposit in the world.

a)

largest

b)

smallest

11.

Average production was around......... barrels per day (bpd) by the end of the war and Aramco was producing ............... bpd after the war.

a)

10,000 -100,000

b)

58,000 - 500,000

12.

...................., the trans-Arabian pipeline, connected Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province oil fields to Lebanon and the Mediterranean.

a)

Tapline

b)

Airline

13.

..................field is the world's biggest offshore oil field.

a)

Dhahran

b)

Safaniya

14.

.................... the company who controlled the oil, focused on exploration and development at this time.

a)

Aramco

b)

SOCAL

15.

………………was appointed as the first Saudi president.

a)

King Abdulaziz

b)

Ali Al-Naimi

16.

1. Advanced Research Center ( ARC) was opened by ......................

a)

King Abdullah

b)

King Fahd

17.

During World War II, the Oil development progress went ................... in Saudi Arabia

a)

slowly

b)

quickly

18.

The Allied forces (who won World War I) had an adequate oil supply.

a)

true

b)

false

19.

During the 1960s and 1970s, thousands of ................. were trained at facilities in the Kingdom to equip them for management and technical jobs at Aramco

a)

Americans

b)

Saudis

20.

The west-east crude oil pipeline's capacity had increased from 3.2 million bpd to ................million bpd

a)

10

b)

5

21.

1. Advanced Research Center (ARC) helped Saudi Arabia become more reliant on ................oil companies for drilling and reservoir engineering.

a)

foreign

b)

Saudi