24-Pet-B4 Well Testing
Worked solutions to 4 past sittings (2014–2016), 71 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.
Topics across the sittings
Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.
- Vitrinite (3 sittings): December 2016 Q2 · December 2015 Q2 · Undated paper Q7
- API gravity formula (2 sittings): December 2016 Q6 · December 2015 Q6
- Arches of Canada (2 sittings): December 2015 Q18 · December 2014 Q18
- Bitumen (2 sittings): December 2016 Q4 · December 2015 Q5
- Catagenesis (2 sittings): December 2016 Q2 · December 2015 Q2
- Define (2 sittings): December 2016 Q17 · December 2015 Q12
- Define Lignin (2 sittings): December 2016 Q2 · December 2015 Q2
- Detached carbonate bank (2 sittings): December 2016 Q18 · December 2015 Q13
- Dissolved oxygen profile (2 sittings): December 2016 Q3 · December 2015 Q3
- Geomorphology (2 sittings): December 2016 Q18 · December 2015 Q13
- Hydrocarbon compound formulas (2 sittings): December 2015 Q4 · December 2014 Q4
- Illustrate Rimmed platform (2 sittings): December 2016 Q17 · December 2015 Q12
- Lagoon (2 sittings): December 2016 Q17 · December 2015 Q12
- NE–SW cross section (2 sittings): December 2015 Q17 · December 2014 Q17
- Organic carbon (2 sittings): December 2016 Q3 · December 2015 Q3
Questions by sitting
December 2016
- Question 1: Five conditions for a commercial petroleum accumulation
- Question 2: Define Lignin, Vitrinite, Sapropelic kerogen, Catagenesis
- Question 3: Silled, salinity-stratified basin – organic carbon and dissolved oxygen profile
- Question 4: Typical API gravity and viscosity of heavy oil, light oil, bitumen and water
- Question 5: Chemical and structural formulas – Octane, Benzene, Ethane, Phenol
- Question 6: API gravity formula and typical light/heavy oil ranges
- Question 7: Define Tight oil, Halo oil, Bitumen, SAGD
- Question 8: Best development method for a tight-oil reservoir
- Question 9: Two methods for developing a bitumen-saturated sandstone reservoir – SAGD and CSS
- Question 10: Bitumen-saturated estuarine point-bar – well placement, completion, and reservoir controls
- Question 11: Shale gas vs. tight gas plays
- Question 12: Typical matrix permeability and porosity of economic shale gas plays
- Question 13: Rock and reservoir characteristics controlling economic shale gas exploitation
- Question 14: Why coalbed methane is considered unconventional
- Question 15: Face cleat vs. butt cleat
- Question 16: How gas is stored in a coal bed
- Question 17: Define and illustrate Rimmed platform, Ramp, Sabkha, Lagoon
- Question 18: Detached carbonate bank – geomorphology and reservoir potential
- Question 19: Typical latitudes for carbonate bank formation
- Question 20: Prograding wave-dominated delta – profile and plan-view map
- Question 21: Grain size vs. permeability and porosity
- Question 22: Diagenetic processes in sandstones and their impact on porosity and permeability
December 2015
- Question 1: Five conditions for a commercial petroleum accumulation
- Question 2: Define Lignin, Vitrinite, Sapropelic kerogen, Catagenesis
- Question 3: Deep stratified lake – organic carbon and dissolved oxygen profile
- Question 4: Hydrocarbon compound formulas and structures
- Question 5: Define Petroleum, Bitumen, Condensate, Thermogenic gas
- Question 6: API gravity formula and typical light/heavy oil ranges
- Question 7: Secondary clay dewatering
- Question 8: Maximum hydrocarbon column height before shale seal breach
- Question 9: Basin-centre gas
- Question 10: Conventional gas vs. coal-bed methane production
- Question 11: Oil sands as an unconventional hydrocarbon target
- Question 12: Define and illustrate Rimmed platform, Ramp, Sabkha, Lagoon
- Question 13: Detached carbonate bank – geomorphology and reservoir potential
- Question 14: Typical latitudes for carbonate bank formation
- Question 15: Thrust fault play with repeated sandstone sequence
- Question 16: Growth fault cross section
- Question 17: NE–SW cross section, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin
- Question 18: Sedimentary basins and arches of Canada
December 2014
- Question 1: Defend “hydrocarbons are generated from an inorganic source”
- Question 2: Defend “hydrocarbons are generated from an organic source”
- Question 3: Four source-rock depositional settings
- Question 4: Hydrocarbon compound formulas and structures
- Question 5: Temperature–depth plot – oil and gas windows
- Question 6: Terminology
- Question 7: Primary migration mechanisms
- Question 8: Maximum hydrocarbon column height before shale breach
- Question 9: Migration pathways and top exploration targets, plan-view maps A and B
- Question 10: Terminology
- Question 11: Stratigraphic pinchout trap cross section
- Question 12: Six stratigraphic trap examples
- Question 13: Three major groups of structural traps
- Question 14: Simple anticline trap cross section
- Question 15: Salt dome cross section and associated trap types
- Question 16: Extensional basin cross section
- Question 17: NE–SW cross section, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin
- Question 18: Sedimentary basins and arches of Canada
Undated paper
- Question 1: Terminology – five sets of related terms
- Question 2: Define kerogen
- Question 3: Kerogen types, macerals, progenitors and generated oil
- Question 4: Kerogen types on a “modified” Van Krevelen diagram
- Question 5: Kerogen types on a Hydrogen Index vs. Oxygen Index diagram
- Question 6: Three main stages of organic maturation
- Question 7: Vitrinite and vitrinite reflectance as a geothermometer
- Question 8: Two other thermal maturation geothermometers
- Question 9: Three major types of stratigraphic trap
- Question 10: Cross-sections of the three stratigraphic trap types
- Question 11: Examples of each stratigraphic trap type
- Question 12: Three major types of structural trap
- Question 13: Sub-types within the three structural trap categories