AI in Oil and Gas Exploration Quiz

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1. What kind of data do AI models most heavily rely on to map underground reservoirs?
   • Seismic surveys and well logs
   • Customer fuel purchase receipts
   • Refinery temperature readings
   • Gas station traffic counts
2. Which model family did the cited ResACEUnet study evaluate for fault detection in 3D seismic data?
   • A text-only autoregressive language model
   • A hybrid CNN/Transformer U-Net model
   • A nearest-neighbor classifier over invoices
   • A decision tree operating only on oil prices
3. In well logs, porosity and permeability matter because they determine:
   • The color of the oil
   • The price of crude oil
   • Whether and how easily oil can flow through rock
   • The depth of the ocean
4. In the cited laboratory-scale early-kick-detection study, which measurements were used as model inputs?
   • Only satellite images of the drilling site
   • Only monthly oil prices and rig schedules
   • Only seismic survey color palettes
   • Drilling flow parameters including mud flow-out rate, conductivity, density and downhole pressure
5. In the cited ANN reservoir-surrogate case study, what was the surrogate designed to approximate?
   • Selected reservoir-simulation outputs in that studied case
   • All future oil production across every basin
   • The price of crude oil on a global exchange
   • Every well’s blowout probability with guaranteed accuracy
6. What did the DataDRILL paper contribute for drilling research?
   • A global database of every producing well
   • Datasets for formation-pressure prediction and kick detection, with 28 variables and over 2,000 samples
   • A guarantee that models prevent all drilling incidents
   • A commercial system deployed on all offshore rigs
7. What does 4D seismic add to a 3D seismic survey?
   • A fourth spatial axis
   • An additional well log with no seismic data
   • A time-lapse dimension from repeated surveys used to observe changes in the subsurface
   • A guarantee that a reservoir contains commercial hydrocarbons
8. What is geosteering in directional drilling?
   • Choosing a drilling location only from a surface map
   • A method for compressing seismic image files
   • A post-drilling estimate of oil prices
   • Adjusting a well path during drilling using updated geological and measurement data