Oil & Gas

Question 1

1 Barrel (bbl) of oil = how many gallons?

Answer 1

42 gallons

Question 2

What is crude oil?

Answer 2

Naturally occurring liquid petroleum often used to make gas

Question 3

What is an oil processing facility?

Answer 3

A plant that separates drilled oil from gas, soil, and water, so that the oil is commercially viable

Question 4

The outer continental shelf generally starts how many miles from the shore of a state?

Answer 4

3 miles

Question 5

What is sargassum

Answer 5

Blobs of Algae, seaweed

Question 6

Wgat are Live Bottoms

Answer 6

Reef-covered floorbed of the ocean

Question 7

What are benthic communities

Answer 7

Bottom dwellers of small critters such as worms, clams, and crabs

Question 8

What are pinnacles

Answer 8

Sand pillars with reefs that rise like thin towers off the sea floor

Question 9

How big a block? (acres and miles)

Answer 9

5,760 acres and 9 miles

Question 10

Play

Answer 10

A prospective subsurface area for
hydrocarbon accumulation that is
characterized by a particular structural
style or depositional relationship.