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OIL HISTORY IN ECUADOR

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where was the first oil well discovered?

a)

California

b)

Napo

c)

Morona Santiago

d)

Ancón, peninsula de Santa Elena

2.

Between 1928 and 1957, how many barrels of crude did the country export?

a)

42 million barrels of crude

b)

83 million barrels of crude

c)

56 million barrels of crude

d)

None of the above

3.

The decline of the first wells was such that the country stopped exporting crude oil between the years?

a)

1812 and 1829

b)

1954 and 1973

c)

1960 and 1971

d)

None of the above

4.

The boom in oil exports, starting in the year _____, was an important axis in the history of the Ecuadorian economy

a)

1834

b)

1970

c)

1978

d)

1982

5.

In what decades did the price of oil suffer a great impact?

a)

1980 and 1990

b)

1983 and 1945

c)

1890 and 1950

d)

1982 and 1876

6.

In what year were the first commercial wells discovered in the Amazon?

a)

1892

b)

1967

c)

1982

d)

1975

7.

Which were the companies that obtained more than 5 million hectares in new concessions to carry out oil exploration?

a)

Shell, Standar Oil, California Oil, Tennesse, y la Western Geophysical Co

b)

Saudi Aramco

Gazprom

c)

National Iranian Oil

Exxon-Mobil

d)

None of the above

8.

In what year are the interest of foreign companies reactivated?

a)

1845

b)

1978

c)

1968

d)

1930

9.

In what year did the Oil Boom occur?

a)

1893

b)

1972

c)

1897

d)

1888

10.

Between what years did an oil crisis occur?

a)

80 and 90

b)

60 and 70

c)

None of the above

d)

40 and 50