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Enrico Mattei |
The First person to refer to the seven oil giants as the Seven Sisters
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BP, Socal, Socony, Gulf Oil, Esso, Texaco, Royal Dutch Shell
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The Seven Sisters
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Anglo-Persian Oil Company
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Former Name of BP
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China
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The country estimated to have the world's largest shale gas reserve
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2009
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The Year when Indonesia pulled out of OPEC
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Hubbert-Peak Theory
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The theory which says that for any given geographical area, from an individual oil-producing region to the planet as a whole, the rate of petroleum production tends to follow a bell- curve
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Saudi Aramco
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Californian-Arabian Standard Oil Company is now known as ________________
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Deepwater Nautilus
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If Deepwater Horizon was then Off-shore oil rig managed by BP in the Gulf of Mexico, what is the name of the off-shore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico managed by Shell until December 2011?
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Titsuville - Pennsylvania
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The first ever commercial oil well |
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Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries |
OAPEC is the abbreviation for ___________________
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Egypt, Syria, Bahrain
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Members of the OAPEC other than OPEC members
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1949
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Year in which the first commercially successful application of hydraulic fracturing was carried.
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Name the 7 peer reviewed SPE journals
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SPE drilling and completion, SPE production and operations, Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, Oil and Gas facilities, SPE Economics and Management, SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering, SPE Journal
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Lester C. Uren
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An author, researcher, and educator at the University of California for more than 40 years. He wrote the first petroleum-engineering textbook in 1924 and founded the first curriculum for petroleum engineering at the University of Pittsburgh in 1915
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This person died in 1953 at the age of 31. Although recognition of greatness had not yet been received, he had gained both technical and professional success at the time of his death. His accomplishments in the brief period following completion of his formal education at Stanford University and the University of California were an indication of a brilliant future. He was project leader of drilling and well completions for California Research Corporation at the time of his death.
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Cedrik K. Ferguson
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President of the AIME in 1913 and Treasurer from 1922 to 1927. This man was a developer of mines and new processes in iron mining. He was president of several mining companies.
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Charles Rand
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First female president of SPE and in which year?
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DeAnn Craig 1998.
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First non-American SPE president and in which year?
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Jacques Bosio in 1993.
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Abraham Gesner, 1852
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Who was the first person to discover kerosene by burning petroleum and in which year?
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What was Rock Oil known in the 1850s when it was first used as patent and folk medicines
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Seneca Oil
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Name the founders of the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company, the first company to produce kerosene
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George Bissel, Jonathan Eveleth
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Venezuela
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According to BP Statistical Review world energy 2013, which country has the largest proved oil reserves?
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Japan
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According to BP Statistical Review world energy 2013, which country after the United States and China is the largest consumer of oil?
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1949......... March 17 1949.............. Halliburton................ Stephens County, OK.......... Archer's County, TX....
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The first commercial fracturing treatments was introdiced in the year ______ by Standarad Oil. On this date _________________ this company _________________ conducted the first two commercial fracturing
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Esso |
Apart from Exxon and Mobil, what is the name under which the company is marketed in many parts of the world?
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Imperial Oil
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What is the name of the company affiliated with Exxon Mobil in Canada?
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Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Sinopec, CNPC, BP, Saudi Aramco
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According to Financial Times' 2013 list of companies by revenue. The list of top 10 features 6 Oil and Gas Companies. Name them..
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Dahran, Saudi Arabia
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Headquarters of Saudi Aramco
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Courbevoire, France
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Headquarters of Total SA
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XOM
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Exxon Mobil Corporation is listed on the New York Stock Exchange as __________
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Valdez Oil Spill
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What was the oil spill caused due to Exxon in 1989?
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March 24 1989
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When did the Valdez Oil Spill Occur?
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Enco, Esso and Humble
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The brand Exxon was established in the year ____________________ in the United States. Replacing _____________ , _____________, ____________
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Esso
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in 1926, Jersey Standard brought out a new blend of fuel under the banner _________________________
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Oil and Gas are poor conductors of electricity
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Remote Reservoir Resistivity Mapping (R3M), a technique developed by ExxonMobil scientists to search for oil in certain hard locations uses this concept ..
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Jersey Standard, 1937
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artificial rubber butyl, was first produced by __________ in the year _______
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Mobil
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The Pan Am flight of the first Boeing 707 transatlantic flight from New York to London used aviation fuel from
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Mobil 1, Castrol, Shell Helix
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ExxonMobil's motor-oil is marketed under the bran name ________ while that of BP is under the name __________ and Shell under the name _________________
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ZSM 5
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What was the chemical patented by Mobil in 1975?
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1976, ZSM 5
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In the year ___________ Mobil developed a method of converting methanol to octane using _____________
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Ghawar Oil Field
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Which is the world's largest single oil field?
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Saudi Aramco
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Who is the owner and operator of the Ghawar Oil Fields
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1948
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In which year were the Ghawar oil fields discovered?
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1951
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Which year was the first production from the Ghawar oil Field?
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Marion King Hubbert
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Who coined the term "Peak Oil"?
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Navier-Stokes Equation
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Darcy's Law was derived from which parent equation of fluids?
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Majnoon Oil Field
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Name the largest oil field of Iraq
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Shell
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Who are the operators of Majnoon Oil field
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Bijan Namdar Zanganeh
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Who is the current president of OPEC?
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Peak Oil
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the point in time when the maximum rate of petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production is expected to enter terminal decline.
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7-15%
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what is the approximate bitumen percentage that is found in normal oil sands
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The University of Pittsburgh
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the first university to have a program in Petroleum Engineering
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Brent Crude, West Texas Intermediate, OPEC reference basket.
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What are the major classifications of crude oil based on trade?
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Who is the King of The Netherlands?
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Willem-Alexander
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Who is the Prime-Minister of the Netherlands?
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Mark Rutte
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Which of the 'big four' auditing firms is Dutch?
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KPMG
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What percentage of total exports of the Netherlands is oil and other fuels?
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19.30%
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An API gravity of around 38.06 and a specific gravity of around 0.835.
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Specific Gravity and API Gravity of Brent Crude Blend
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An API gravity of around 39.6 and specific gravity of about 0.827, which is lighter than Brent crude.
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Specific Gravity and API Gravity of WTI Crude Blend
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approximately 0.37% of sulphur, classifying it as sweet crude, yet not as sweet as WTI
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Sulfur Content of Brent Crude
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about 0.24% sulfur thus is rated as a sweet crude oil (having less than 0.5% sulfur), sweeter than Brent
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Sulfur Content of WTI Crude
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North Sea, a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between U.K, Scandinavia, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
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Where is Brent Crude extracted from?
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Anthony F Lucas
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Born in Austria in1855. He was a mining engineer, often referred to as the father of petroleum engineering. His successful drilling of the famous Spindletop field near Beaumont, TX was one of the most important events in the history of the petroleum industry.
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John Franklin Carl
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A geologist born in1828 who developed many of the subsurface geological methods still in use today. More than a century ago, he expressed the principles of petroleum engineering and geology that established much of the framework for the development of petroleum engineering technology. He published strip logs from nine Pennsylvania wells, and he used them for correlation purposes in much the same manner as they are employed today. His work also confirmed the theory that oil sands lie in lens-shaped masses, not in continuous belts, and that oil does not occur in underground pools or lakes, but in pores of sandstone.
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31° API (specific gravity of 0.871)
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Specific Gravity and API Gravity of Dubai Crude
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Elephant
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The nickname for a large oil reserve in the industry!
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Dr. Armand Hammer
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Who was the founder of Occidental Petroleum and discovered oil in Libya?
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Enrico Mattei
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Who coined the term "Seven Sisters"?
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Texaco(Chevron), BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Gulf Oil, Socony (ExxonMobil), Socal, Esso.
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What are the seven sisters?
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Spiro Agnew-Vice President of US, Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, Nikolai-President of the Soviet Union
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Name 3 important dignitaries who were invited by the Shah of Iran to celebrate the founding of the persian empire after 2500 years-
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Harold Wilson
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At the beginning of January 1968, in response to a balance of payments crisis, which British Prime Minister announced that Britain would end its defense commitments east of Suez?
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The Shah of Iran was eager to fill the vacuum.
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After British withdrew their security from the Persian Gulf, who stepped forward to replace Britain?
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The Nixon Administration supported him.
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In the early 1970s, the Shah was intent on leading, not only in Iran but throughout the region. Which American administration promised to help him?
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The Texas Railroad Commission
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Declared as a historic occasion- in March 1971, for the first time in a quarter century, who allowed all-out production at 100 percent of capacity in America?
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The drilling of an offshore well in the Santa Barbara channel encountered an unexpected geological anomaly, and as a result, an estimated 6000 barrels of oil seeped out and flowed into the coastal waters and washed up on thirty miles of beaches.
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The Nixon Administration shut down the California offshore development due to which major event?
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President Warren Harding
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Which US President had created a naval petroleum reserve on the Arctic coast of Alaska in 1923?
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Sinclair Oil
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Which company offered a remedy to BP to relieve its dependence on the Middle East and joint exploration with BP in Alaska?
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Richfield merged with Atlantic Refining
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Which two companies merged to form Atlantic Richfield, which later became ARCO?
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DeGolyer and McNaughton
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Which petroleum engineering firm estimated that Prudhoe Bay in Alaska holds as much as 10 billion barrels of recoverable reserves?
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Prudhoe Bay, Alaska
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Which was the largest oil field ever discovered in North America, one-and-a-half times larger than Dad Joiner's East Texas field, which had destroyed the price of oil in the early 1930s?
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ARCO, Jersey and BP
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Which three firms helped build the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline?
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John D. Archbold
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Who did JDR name as his successor to SO?
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Texaco
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Joseph S. Cullinan was the founder of which oil company in Texas?
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Sun Oil Company
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J.N. Pew founded which company after the production in Lima field yielded positive results?
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Shell Transport and Trading company
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Samuel combined his trading houses and formed what company in 1897 to ensure loyalty of the various trading houses?
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800 miles
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How long is the trans-Alaskan pipeline?
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Major Frank Holmes
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Name the individual who is referred to as the "Abu Naft" (Father of Oil) by the Arabs.
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Texas Railroad Commission
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Name the agent of order, despite it's name, was originally created in 1891 by Governor Jim Hogg to assert populist control over the railroads, it was now responsible for handling the feud between major companies and independent oil producers.
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Murex
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Name the tanker which Shell lost in WWI which had been the first vessel dispatched by Marcus Samuel through the Suez Canal in 1892 to carry out his great coup.
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Everette DeGolyer
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Name the prominent American geologist who just before World War I had made the huge discovery that was the basis for the "Golden Lane" and the growth of the Mexican oil industry.
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Mexican Eagle
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Name the company which was responsible for about 65% of Mexico's total production in the mid-1930s.
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Shah Reza Pahlavi or Reza Khan
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Name the Shah of Persia in 1932 who displeased from royalty from Anglo-Persian decided to cancel Anglo-Persian's concessions. After a year of negotiations, John Cadman and the Shah agreed to a new agreement in place which brought more money to Persia.
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World War II
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The As-Is Agreements terminated in September of 1939 with the outbreak of what event.
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Pool Association
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Name the association used to implement the As-Is Agreement in 1928 which was managed by one representative from each company and was set up to carry out the necessary statistical analysis of demand and transportation and to allocate the actual quotas.
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Winston Churchill
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Name the Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1928 who gave firm support to John Cadman's efforts to form an alliance with Shell in Africa. |
