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183 Oil & Gas Trivia Questions Ranked From Easiest to Hardest (Updated For 2024)
- The longest-term export between the U.S. and Japan is the shipping of LNG from Alaska. LNG stands for what type of cleaner-than-coal energy?
Answer: Liquified Natural Gas
- What is the name of the pipeline, built in the 1970s, that transports oil from fields near Prudhoe Bay across Alaska to the port city of Valdez?
Answer: Trans-Alaska Pipeline
- Homer Electric will replace gas turbines on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula with lithium-ion Megapacks provided by what car-slash-clean energy company?
Answer: Tesla
- What is the name of the "well stimulation technique" in which rock is fractured by a pressurized liquid to create cracks in deep-rock formations through which natural gas or petroleum can escape? This process led to an industrial boom across parts of the Dakotas and Pennsylvania in the 2000s in the U.S.
Answer: Fracking
- What oil and gas company started out as a little London business you might expect to be run by someone named Sally on the shore, if the rhyme is to be believed. Its name is a big clue, so what did they sell before they got into the petroleum biz?
Answer: Shell Oil Company
- Hilcorp took over Alaska's massive Prudhoe Bay oil fields in 2019, after a sale by what massive London-based multinational oil and gas company?
Answer: BP
- On June 7, 2021, the Department of Justice announced that it had seized approximately $2.3 million worth of what cryptocurrency from the Darkside Colonial Pipeline hackers?
Answer: Bitcoin
- Diesel fuel originated from experiments for the compression-ignition engine invented in 1892 by Rudolf Diesel. What nationality was Mr. Diesel?
Answer: German
- As of June 2018, how many member nations are in OPEC?
Answer: 15
- Some researchers believe that increased oil and gas production in what large basin, named for a geologic time period, has caused a marked increase in Texas earthquakes?
Answer: Permian Basin
- Sudapet is owned by the Ministry for Energy and Mining of what guessable northeast African country?
Answer: Sudan
- In the common energy-related alphanumeric phrase of E85 that you might see at a gas station, what does the E stand for?
Answer: Ethanol
- Three U.S. states collectively account for over half of all domestic refining capacity. California and Texas are two of these states. What is the third?
Answer: Louisiana
- Although it is not publicly traded, what Middle Eastern oil company is often considered the most valuable company on earth? A long-discussed public offering has potentially been shelved.
Answer: Saudi Aramco
- This question makes me tired: The four strokes of a gasoline engine are intake, compression, combustion, and what "E" stroke also known as "outlet?"
Answer: Exhaust
- A large, double-sided sign featuring the logo of an oil company overlooks Kenmore Square in Boston. The sign was first installed in 1940 and most recently had its logo updated in 1965. What brand is represented on this sign?
Answer: Citgo
- Samotolor Field and Romashkino Field are two of the largest oil fields in what expansive country?
Answer: Russia
- How many gallons are in one barrel of oil?
Answer: 42
- Oil magnate Ellis Wyatt is one of the titans of industry who go missing in what 1957 novel by Ayn Rand?
Answer: Atlas Shrugged
- In its full name, what two words, which allude to its national origins, begin the name of the oil and gas company Shell?
Answer: Royal Dutch
- Which C-word refers to the equipment needed or the next steps that need to be taken to make a drilled well operational?
Answer: Completions
- A 2016 film that dramatized the 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident starred what actor, formerly known as the singer "Marky Mark," in the role of electronics technician Mike Williams?
Answer: Mark Wahlberg
- TEL is a chemical compound that was once commonly added to gasoline to improve its octane rating and reduce knocking—the "L" in TEL stands for what element of the periodic table, which is now known to be toxic?
Answer: Lead
- “The Smartest Guys in the Room” is the byline of a 2005 documentary film about the collapse about what American company after it became embroiled in one of the biggest insider trading corporate scandals of all time?
Answer: Enron
- In 1989, a ship hit a reef in the Prince William Sound and spilled more than 10 million gallons of crude oil over more than 1,000 miles of coastline. What was the famous, ill-fated two-word name of this ship?
Answer: Exxon Valdez
- Octan is a fictional company whose gas stations appear in the building sets of what Danish toy brand?
Answer: Lego
- Halliburton is one of the largest oil field service companies in the world. Although the company is technically American, it has dual headquarters in Houston and what city outside of the U.S.?
Answer: Dubai
- Although Austria is not a member, OPEC's headquarters are located in what world capital city?
Answer: Vienna
- What “A” word applies to an oil well that is dug to determine the likely production rate of a field? This word is also used to describe things like an evaluation of how much a house is worth.
Answer: Appraisal Well
- The name of which liquid derived from petroleum, widely used to power jet engines, originates from the Greek for “wax?”
Answer: Kerosene
- Measured by barrels per day, the three largest petroleum refineries in the U.S. are in Texas. Which state is home to the fourth largest refinery, and therefore the largest outside of Texas?
Answer: Louisiana
- Although not commonly seen, the "giga-barrel" (sometimes abbreviated to GGbl) is the U.S. oil industry standard unit for what rather large number of barrels of oil?
Answer: One billion
- Petrobras is the common name of a government-owned energy conglomerate in what South American country?
Answer: Brazil
- What feline-sounding term is typically used to describe an exploratory gas or oil well? The term dates all the way back to newspaper articles from the 1870s. The term could also be used to describe a student at the University of Arizona.
Answer: Wildcat
- Learning from World War I, the Germans famously stockpiled ample oil and gasoline as supplies for what "lightning war" method of warfare employed in WWII?
Answer: Blitzkrieg
- What formal name for the liquid that can be refined for gasoline comes from the Latin words for “rock” and “oil?”
Answer: Petroleum
- When viewing the composition of petroleum by weight, what chemical makes up the majority?
Answer: Carbon
- The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was founded in 1908 following the discovery of a large oil field in Masjed Soleiman, Iran. Now associated with Deepwater Horizon, by what name is this company known today?
Answer: BP
- What is the word for the category of compounds that lower the surface tension (or interfacial tension) between two liquids, between a gas and a liquid, or between a liquid and a solid. They may act as detergents, wetting agents, emulsifiers, foaming agents, and dispersant.
Answer: Surfactant
- Before serving in the role of Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson served as the CEO of what major energy company?
Answer: ExxonMobil
- What is the name of the sedimentary rock formation that is the source of the fracking that has taken off in Pennsylvania, New York, and West Virginia?
Answer: Marcellus
- Renamed in 1990, what petroleum and natural gas company was founded 1967 as the Shelly Dean Oil Company, a name taken its founder's two daughters?
Answer: Continental Resources
- The massive flow of Russia's Druzhba pipeline gets fed by oil from Siberia, the Urals, and what caviar-rish, C.S. Lewis-approved sea?
Answer: Caspian Sea
- Paraffin and lamp oil are alternative terms for what combustible hydrocarbon liquid derived from petroleum?
Answer: Kerosene
- Environmental regulations ensure refineries remove certain pollutants. What element, a large contributor to 'acid rain', is removed in the refining process?
Answer: Sulfur
- What Western Australian city is the center of Australia's oil and gas industry, with the largest concentration of global oil and gas companies, and oil service companies in Australia?
Answer: Perth
- Before aiding Seattle in opening its first – and the United States’ first gas station in 1907, Standard Oil was founded 37 years prior be Henry Flagler and what American mogul magnate and philanthropist?
Answer: John D. Rockefeller
- BTU (or Btu) is a standardized measurement of heat that can be used measure the energy content of oil and gas. The "TU" stands for Thermal Unit - what does the "B" stand for?
Answer: British
- What Oklahoma city in Payne County is considered the Pipeline Crossroads of the World due to its status as a price settlement point for the New York Mercantile Exchange?
Answer: Cushing
- Upton Sinclair's 20th-century novel "Oil!" served as inspiration and a springboard for the screenplay of what Oscar-winning 2007 film following the life of a California oil man?
Answer: There Will Be Blood
- A single notice of violation kickstarted the Volkswagen scandal known as "dieselgate." An agency from what country issued this first notice in 2015? As a hint, it wasn't Volkswagen's home country of Germany.
Answer: United States
- Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was a 19th century inventor and mechanical engineer, most famous for the invention of his namesake engine. He's also well-known for a suspicious death at sea. Although born in France, Diesel was what nationality?
Answer: German
- Daniel Yergin's 1990 book "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power" was the winner of what annual award for achievement in writing?
Answer: Pulitzer Prize
- The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is an intergovernmental organization founded in September 1960 at a conference in what country?
Answer: Iraq
- When referring to the metric used to combined oil and nat gas reserves into one number, what does BOE stand for?
Answer: Barrels of Oil Equivalent
- What Republican politician served as CEO and Chairman of oil giant Halliburton from 1995 to 2000?
Answer: Dick Cheney
- What company has the largest reserve of liquid oil in the world? It has been routinely rumored to be exploring an IPO but has yet to do so.
Answer: Saudi Aramco
- In the past 100 years of pricing for crude oil, the peak price was in what year?
Answer: 2008
- Name one of the two years in the 1970s recognized as having an oil crisis of national importance.
Answer: 1973 or 1979
- One known carcinogen within gasoline is the compound benzene, which is composed of carbon and what other element?
Answer: Hydrogen
- What is the name of the tall pipe that burns off excess gas from petroleum refinery? This signal often appears as a visible flame.
Answer: Flare
- What former NATO Supreme Allied Commander was raised in Arkansas, graduated as West Point valedictorian, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, and had a brief campaign for the 2004 Democratic nomination for U.S. President, and currently serves on the board of directors of BNK Petroleum?
Answer: Wesley Clark
- Both Exxon and Mobil are "descendant" companies of what former company that was forced to disband in 1911?
Answer: Standard Oil
- What Norwegian "E" company was previously known as Statoil and StatoilHydro?
Answer: Equinor
- What energy company describes its logo on its own website as follows? "The colors of the Helios – named after the Greek god of the sun – suggest heat, light and nature. It is also a pattern of interlocking shapes."
Answer: BP
- Reflective of Dubai's shift away from an oil-based economy towards the information and tourist sectors, what is the alliterative name of the coastal central business district that was built with over 200 buildings in the 21st century?
Answer: Business Bay
- In 1859 the first successful drilling of an oil well was near Oil Creek in the city of Titusville. In what U.S. state did this event occur?`
Answer: Pennsylvania
- What "B" term in the drilling industry means "a sudden, uncontrolled release of underground pressure from the well" and is also a hair styling technique involving the flattening and straightening of hair?
Answer: Blowout
- In the common benchmark within oil futures of WTI Crude Oil, what does the WTI stand for?
Answer: West Texas Intermediate
- Appropriately, what gasoline brand has a circular logo containing a single star and a red letter T?
Answer: Texaco
- What gasoline brand shares its name with a mark that can be used to indicate rank on the uniform of a military or police officer?
Answer: Chevron
- in 2002, a “C” oil company based in Utah, and a “P” Petroleum Company based in Oklahoma merged to form what Houston oil conglomerate? The name is one word, the two former companies pressed together.
Answer: ConocoPhillips
- What “C” petroleum company, founded in 1950 in Houston, Texas, with Joe Gatto as its current president, uses a logo where its name is in big blue letters, with the word “petroleum” in little red letters underneath?
Answer: Callon
- Before she wrote the more famous love ballad "I'll Always Love You," what country music legend included the comedic song "I'll Oil Wells Love You" on her 1968 album "Just Because I'm a Woman?"
Answer: Dolly Parton
- What K-word means solid, insoluble organic matter found in sedimentary rock that, when heated, can yield oil or natural gas?
Answer: kerogen
- What country has the world's third-largest reserves of natural gas?
Answer: Qatar
- In October 1973, many members of OPEC placed an oil embargo on the United States, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom due to their support for Israel in what Middle Eastern conflict?
Answer: Yom Kippur War
- What “C” term from oil piping refers to heavy steel pipe used to seal off fluids from the hole, or to keep the hole from caving in?
Answer: Casing
- In petroleum production, an assembly of valves, casing spools, and fittings used to regulate the flow of pipes in an oil well may be known by what Yule-appropriate name?
Answer: Christmas Tree
- In what 1999 film starring Pierce Brosnan as 007 does Bond thwart an attempt to increase petroleum prices by triggering a nuclear meltdown in the waters of Istanbul?
Answer: The World Is Not Enough
- In 1821, William Hart dug the first well in the United States to specifically produce natural gas along the banks of the Canadaway Creek in the town of Fredonia in what state?
Answer: New York
- What is the name of the tallest compliant tower in the world, finished in 200, standing in the Gulf of Mexico at a whopping 640 meters tall, and operated by Chevron?
Answer: Petronius
- Who was nicknamed "The Prophet of Spindletop" for his work in the Texas oil business? He leased the land on Sour Hill Mound to Anthony Lucas for drilling, resulting in the gusher that changed the oil industry.
Answer: Patillo Higgins
- In the 19th century, gasoline was no more than crude oil waste. Most American refineries were really after which combustible hydrocarbon liquid (good for lamps)?
Answer: Kerosene
- A field that holds more than 500 million barrels of oil, such as Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, may be known by what animalistic nine-letter term?
Answer: Elephant
- Said to represent upwards of 600 companies in the United States, the API is the largest association for the oil and natural gas industry. What does API stand for?
Answer: American Petroleum Institute
- Which part of a marine drilling platform that provides an opening to the water below also sounds like a place you’d go swimming in outer space? (Hint: Some call it “wet porch”)
Answer: Moon Pool
- Which chemical (CH3OH, also known as wood alcohol) produces invisible flames and no smoke when it’s lit on fire?
Answer: Methanol
- Brent crude oil, a benchmark against which other crude grades are priced, gets its name from the Brent field, an oil and gas field located in which sea between Scotland and Norway?
Answer: The North Sea
- The Bolivar Coastal Fields, the largest oil field outside the Middle East, is located on the edge of Lake Maracaibo in which country, the world's fifth largest oil exporter?
Answer: Venezuela
- A mysterious organization uses searching for oil as a cover for damming Bolivia's water supply in what 2008 James Bond film that starred Daniel Craig as 007 and Olga Kurylenko as his love interest?
Answer: Quantum of Solace
- Every oil or gas well drilled in the United States gets a number assigned to it by which trade association?
Answer: American Petroleum Institute
- If you’re trying to guide your drilling tools into the top of a well, what’s the jingly, vaguely naughty-sounding term for the pipe on top of the casing string that will be helpful?
Answer: Bell Nipple
- The history of the petroleum industry in the U.S. starts with a man named David Beaty who discovered what in his home in Pennsylvania in 1875?
Answer: Crude oil
- CNG is a form of fuel used in transportation that is largely comprised of methane. What do the letters CNG stand for?
Answer: Compressed Natural Gas
- Gazprom might well be the largest natural gas company in the world according to 2019 data. At the very least, it’s definitely the largest company (by sales, with revenue topping $120,000,000,000) in which country?
Answer: Russia
- Which term that sounds like a flowing body of water refers to the different levels of operation in the petroleum industry—that is, “up,” “mid,” and “down?”
Answer: Stream
- "Gasoline" is a 2022 hit song from what Saturday- and Sunday-loving singer whose real name is Abel Tesfaye?
Answer: The Weeknd
- Natural gas that is produced from reservoir rocks with low permeability, requiring hydraulic fracturing to make the well profitable, is often referred to by what stretched-sounding adjective?
Answer: Tight
- In the 1990s, the United Nations established the Oil-for-Food Program to allow what Middle Eastern nation to sell enough oil to pay for food and necessities without expanding its military program?
Answer: Iraq
- Which potato-y term refers to the starting point of drilling a well?
Answer: Spud
- Coal and oil are two examples of which type of fuel that forms when dead stuff in the Earth breaks down over millions of years because it’s under heat and pressure?
Answer: Fossil
- What’s the canine-inspired name for a space off the rig floor that can be used as an office or for storage?
Answer: Doghouse
- Which type of well is drilled to get to pockets of oil that the original wells in an area may have missed or just make the overall recovery more efficient?
Answer: Infill
- With a population of over 200 million, which West African country is by far the most populous member of OPEC?
Answer: Nigeria
- "Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas — Not Less" is the subtitle of what alliteratively named nonfiction bestseller by Alex Epstein?
Answer: Fossil Future
- In the 2007 film "There Will Be Blood," Daniel Day-Lewis earned a Best Actor Oscar playing an oilman whose memorable lines included "I drink your" — what sweet beverage-slash-dessert?
Answer: Milkshake
- Critically panned but liked by audiences, "Gasoline Alley" is a 2022 film that marked the comeback of what "Die Hard" action movie star?
Answer: Bruce Willis
- What is the only member of OPEC which is found in the continent of South America?
Answer: Venezuela
- What "P" component of crude oil is a word that was also once used to mean any alkane, and may be used in British English to mean kerosene specifically?
Answer: Paraffin
- Which independent oil and gas company based in New York City was started by a 19-year-old entrepreneur in New Jersey who bought a second-hand truck to deliver oil in 1933?
Answer: Hess
- In 2020, Texas-based Noble Energy was acquired by which global oil industry leader for around $5 billion?
Answer: Chevron
- Which enormous tension-leg oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico peaked around 2000, when it was producing over 150,000 barrels of oil per day?
Answer: Ursa
- Founded in 1976, PDVSA is a state-owned petroleum corporation that belongs to what South American nation?
Answer: Venezuela
- Analogous to the term "mineral" used to describe inorganic rocks, what "M" word means any of the distinct individual constituents of coal, such as vitrinite or liptinite?
Answer: Maceral
- Which rig located off the coast of Russia and Japan near Sakhalin Island is the largest oil platform in the world as of 2023, weighing over 42,000 tons?
Answer: Berkut
- According to the IUPAC naming systems and convention, the gas butane contains how many carbon atoms in each of its molecules?
Answer: Four
- Found in crude petroleum and natural gas, what is the common name of the three-carbon alkane with the chemical formula C3H6?
Answer: Propane
- In what country were the first gas wells drilled in or before 347 A.D.? The gas was burned to evaporate brine to make salt.
Answer: China
- Its first six letters reflecting the name of an American inventor, what 10-letter word means a casing head in an oil well with a stuffing box packed so as to make a gas-tight connection?
Answer: Bradenhead
- Which country left OPEC in 2020, leaving Venezuela as the only remaining member in South America?
Answer: Ecuador
- Who drilled the first commercial oil well in the U.S.? He struck black gold on August 28, 1859, near Titusville, Pennsylvania.
Answer: Edwin Drake
- The Saline Substances Contamination Endorsement is a general liability endorsement that excludes liability arising from using saline substances in what sort of operations?
Answer: Drilling
- What practice of burning off gas that’s associated with oil drilling creates a “stack,” “boom”, or “pit”?”
Answer: Flaring
- At roughly 8,400 square kms, it is by far the largest conventional oil field in the world, Ghawar Field is found in the Eastern Province of which country?
Answer: Saudi Arabia
- The multinational oil and gas company BP has its global headquarters in which capital city?
Answer: London
- What type of oil tanker used by the Navy is unique because it can refuel a moving ship?
Answer: Replenisher
- We’re not talking about video games here! We’re instead referring to what energy company whose logo is inspired by a famous American numbered route and whose NYSE stock market symbol is PSX?
Answer: Phillips 66
- Spindletop was oil field whose geyser spewed for 9 days after it was discovered and led to an “oil boom” in what U.S. state?
Answer: Texas
- A common product from crude oil, the gas known as isobutane has a molecule that contains how many carbon atoms?
Answer: Four
- In 2013, which country went past Saudi Arabia as the country with the most proven oil reserves in the world?
Answer: Venezuela
- Hellenic Petroleum is the largest petrochemical company in which EU country?
Answer: Greece
- Which country decided to withdraw its membership of OPEC on January 1, 2020?
Answer: Ecuador
- Uniquely designed as a Tudor cottage, the first Phillips 66 gas station in the U.S. officially opened in 1927 in what Midwestern state’s city of Wichita?
Answer: Kansas
- This paralegal and environmental activist’s real-life case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company and its contamination of groundwater in the California town of Hinkley became the subject of a 2000 biopic starring Julia Roberts portraying her in the film. Name her.
Answer: Erin Brockovich
- Made from a merger of Sun Oil and GCOS, the world's largest bitumen producer Suncor is headquartered in what country?
Answer: Canada
- The second largest marine oil spill in history (after Deepwater Horizons) occurred in 1979 after the oil well Ixtoc 1 suffered a blowout - this disaster took place 60 miles off the coast of what country?
Answer: Mexico
- The first modern oil well was drilled in 1857 by the American Merrimac Company near the town of La Brea on what Caribbean island?
Answer: Trinidad
- What was the first U.S. city to light its streets with gas, using natural gas manufactured from coal?
Answer: Baltimore
- Founded in in Paris in 1926 and incorporated in Netherlands, Schlumberger’s headquarters today are in what U.S. state?
Answer: Texas
- Which Central African country, that has Spanish as an official language, joined OPEC in 2017?
Answer: Equatorial Guinea
- Remediation is a technique to clean up oil spills. Bacteria are an example of what organism that can be used to help sop up the mess?
Answer: Microbes
- The intergovernmental organization OPEC was founded in 1960 in Baghdad. What does the E in OPEC stand for?
Answer: Exporting
- Eventually acquired by Standard Oil, what oil company was founded in 1911 by Walter Fondren and the Sterling brothers, and was named after the modest-sounding Texas town in which it was founded?
Answer: Humble Oil
- Higher octane gas leads to less premature ignition which in turn reduces the rattling noise in cars most commonly known by what "K" term?
Answer: Knocking
- In May 2021, the FBI declared that what ransomware group was responsible for the cyberattacks that forced the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline petroleum networks?
Answer: Darkside
- On February 7, 2022, President Joe Biden vowed that what Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline will be blocked if Russia continues aggression against Ukraine?
Answer: Nord Stream
- Founded in 2009 to combine expertise in fuels and industrial biotechnology, Butamax is a joint venture between BP and what Delaware-based chemical company?
Answer: DuPont
- What is the watery-sounding name for an underground layer of liquid-bearing permeable rock that are occasionally used as a seasonal storage place for thermal energy?
Answer: Aquifer
- The first internal combustion engine suitable for use in transportation applications was named for its German inventor who had what four-letter palindrome last name?
Answer: Otto
- What was the last name of Erle, who started an oil well services firm in 1919 that spread worldwide, including Iraq?
Answer: Haliburton
- As of August 2019, how many commercial gas stations can be found south of Houston St in Manhattan?
Answer: Zero
- What is the name given to the tall, main structure of a drilling rig? This word is also a relatively common male first name.
Answer: Derrick
- The first offshore oil wells were off the coast of what southern U.S. state in the 1950s?
Answer: Louisiana
- What Northern Alaska town is adjacent to and the namesake of the largest oilfield in the United States, and is the unofficial northern terminus of the Pan-American highway?
Answer: Prudhoe Bay
- A large green brontosaurus with the decidedly uncreative name of Dino is the mascot for what gasoline brand?
Answer: Sinclair
- Consisting chiefly of hydrocarbons, what sticky black substance also known as "bitumen" is found in natural beds or made as a residue of petroleum refinement?
Answer: Asphalt
- What gas can be used to make a “cushion” on top of the liquid column to lower the downhole pressure (for example, during testing)?
Answer: Nitrogen
- Of the top 10 countries for gas production, nine are in the Northern Hemisphere. What is the only country in this group in the Southern Hemisphere?
Answer: Australia
- While you can technically use it in a diesel engine, what fry-favorite oil-turned-biofuel is so viscous that it would probably clog up the engine if you tried to power your truck with it?
Answer: Vegetable
- Variously featuring a brontosaurus or T.Rex in its logo, what is the six-letter name of the fictional company whose gas stations appear in Pixar's "Toy Story" and "Cars" franchises?
Answer: Dinoco
- When ranking the world's nations by amounts of oil reserves, what country is the highest on the list (at 3rd place) that is *not* a member of OPEC?
Answer: Canada
- What “S” oilfield service and equipment company was founded by French brothers Conrad and Marcel in 1926, and named after their last name? They are now a global corporation with headquarters in the U.S., UK, Netherlands, and Curacao.
Answer: Schlumberger
- In the name of that partly completed Keystone XL pipeline, XL doesn't stand for "extra-large." The L stands for "limited," and the X stands for what E-word?
Answer: Export
- Including a container for a brewed beverage, what is the name of the scandal that rocked the Harding administration in the 1920s, involving bribery to obtain leases of Navy petroleum reserves without competitive bidding?
Answer: Teapot Dome
- The 1901 Lucas gusher at what Texas "S" site is largely credited with sparking the Texas Oil Boom in the U.S.?
Answer: Spindletop
- Total S.A. is a multinational integrated oil and gas company founded in 1924 and headquartered in what European country?
Answer: France
- What is "N" word that is the light oil cut that ends up in gasoline after the refining process is complete?
Answer: Naphtha
- What prime time soap opera premiered in 2015 and followed a young couple that moved to fictitious Rock Springs, North Dakota, after a massive oil discovery?
Answer: Blood & Oil
- What is the term commonly used to refer to the act of deviating a well bore to head in a different, desired angle?
Answer: Directional Drilling
- As of July 2018, what U.S. state has the highest gas tax at 58.7 cents per gallon?
Answer: Pennsylvania
- Sometimes nicknamed a “wildcat well,” which term applies to the (risky) practice of drilling in an area that isn’t known to be an oilfield (but hey, it might be!)?
Answer: Exploration
- What soft-sounding term refers to the volume of natural gas intended as permanent inventory in a storage reservoir to maintain adequate pressure and deliverability in the reservoir?
Answer: Cushion Gas
- What "T" compound, chemical formula C7H8, consists of a benzene ring with a CH3 group in place of one of the hydrogen atoms and is found naturally in crude oil?
Answer: Toluene
- Founded in 1910, Cities Service, a company that supplied fuel to public utilities, was the precursor to what energy company, whose name of origin is reflected in its name today?
Answer: Citgo
- Arbusto Energy was a small oil exploration company founded in 1977. Within a few years, the company changed its name to reflect the surname of what famous man?
Answer: George W Bush
- With over 500 million barrels produced in 2019, what Great Plains state has the second-largest crude oil production after Texas?
Answer: North Dakota
- What is the name of the region with large deposits of bitumen (heavy crude oil) in the northeastern region of Alberta? This is the largest known reservoir of bitumen on Earth.
Answer: Athabasca oil sands
- In the Seinfeld episode "The Dealership," Kramer has a car to test drive for the day and one of his "tests" include running the gas tank all the way to empty, much to George's irritation. The episode is well-known as the first to air after the announcement that the show was set to conclude. The car Kramer test drives was manufactured by what Swedish car manufacturer?
Answer: Saab
- As of July 2018, what U.S. state has the lowest gas tax at 14.7 cents per gallon?
Answer: Alaska
- James Dean wore a cowboy hat and got slathered in oil in what epic 1956 film that earned him his second and final Oscar nomination?
Answer: Giant
- The first digit on a credit card tells you which industry issued the card. As an example, 1 and 2 indicate an airline card. What digit represents gas/fuel cards?
Answer: 7
- What gasoline brand issued the first toy version of its iconic green, yellow, and white toy tanker trucks in 1964?
Answer: Hess
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About the Author
Eli Robinson is the Chief Trivia Officer at Water Cooler Trivia. He was once in a Bruce Springsteen cover band called F Street Band.
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