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Exam Questions

Section A
Instructions:
• Explain what you understand about the
following terms or topics that relate to
petroleum geoscience. Use a sketch or
example as appropriate.
1. Paleozoic, Devonian, 13. Reasonable range of oil and
Pliocene (exact numerical gas recovery factors for
ages are not important) fields: a) under gas
2. Basin depletion, and b) under
3. Transgression and waterflood
regression 14. The abbreviations STOIP,
4. Fractures GIIP, TD and TVDSS.
5. Plunging anticline 15. Strike and Dip
6. Trough cross-bedding 16. Gross rock volume
7. Deltaic deposits 17. Isopach
8. Turbidites 18. Source rock
9. Secondary sedimentary 19. Primary migration
structures 20. Metamorphic rocks
10. Crust and lithosphere 21. Biostratigraphy
11. Plate margin 22. Walther’s Law
12. Lowest known oil (LKO) 23. Triangulation
24. True vertical thickness
25. Seismic resolution

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