Test Your Knowledge: Oil
Are you an 'Industry Intellect'? Test your knowledge about oil and the oil industry in this fun quiz.
Most of the oil found in the world's oceans has come from?
Oozed from the ocean floor
Leaks from shipping
Illegal dumping of waste materials
Oil spills
In 2012 the North Sea provided what percentage of the UK's oil demand?
42%
67%
54%
76%
How many gallons of gasoline are typically produced from one barrel of crude oil?
20 gallons
19.14 gallons
19.15 gallons
19.6 gallons
Which is the largest onshore oil field in the UK?
Welton
Wytch Farm
Cold Hanworth
Stainton
What does the word Petroleum literally translate as?
Petrol Oil
Oil
Rock Oil
Petrified Oil
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill, spilled how many million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico?
4.2 million
20.4 million
15.8 million
5 million
What percentage of all oil spills are caused by human error (according to one major study)?
20%
80%
60%
40%
OPEC countries hold how much of the world's proven oil reserves?
None
Two quarters
Three quarters
A quarter
It takes how many tonnes of ancient, buried plants to produce a litre of petrol?
23.5 tonnes
12.3 tonnes
24.2 tonnes
20 tonnes
A gallon (4 litres) of gasoline contains how many calories?
42 million
31 million
1 million
14 million
