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The Oil Industry: Supply and Trading

Principles of International Oil Trading - Eligibility Pre-Test

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  1. What do the letters API stand for?
    1. Asian Petroleum Index
    2. American Petroleum Index
    3. Asian Price Index
    4. American Petroleum Institute

  2. Which metric tonne of crude oil would be the most barrels?
    1. 20 API
    2. 25 API
    3. 35 API
    4. 40 API

  3. What is 50 degrees Celsius expressed in degrees Fahrenheit?
    1. 100
    2. 122
    3. 212
    4. 245

  4. What do the letters OPEC stand for?
    1. Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries
    2. Organisation for Production and Export of Crude
    3. Organisation for Petroleum Emission Control
    4. Organisation for Product Export from Country

  5. Which of these countries is not a member of Opec?
    1. Saudi Arabia
    2. Egypt
    3. Indonesia
    4. Venezuela

  6. Approximately how many millions of barrels of crude oil are produced every day?
    1. 80
    2. 85
    3. 90
    4. 100

  7. In oil trading terminology what is meant by technical analysis?
    1. The chemical analysis of the oil in a technical laboratory
    2. The analysis of drilling techniques
    3. The analysis of historic prices to predict future prices
    4. The analysis of a series of trades to determine the profit and loss

  8. When carried on a sea going tanker is gasoline carried on:
    1. Clean tankers
    2. Gas tankers
    3. Dirty tankers
    4. Chemical tankers

  9. What is meant by the deadweight of a tanker?
    1. The weight of the tanker's structure
    2. The weight of the tanker's cargo
    3. The weight of the cargo plus bunkers, stores and water
    4. The weight of the cargo plus the weight of the tanker's structure

  10. What do the letters GRT stand for?
    1. Greek Registered Tanker
    2. Greek Registered Tonnage
    3. Gross Registered Tonnage
    4. General Registered Tanker

  11. What do the letters WS stand for?
    1. Worldscale
    2. White spirit
    3. World size
    4. World sign

  12. Where is Quoin Island?
    1. In the US Gulf
    2. In Lake Maracaibo
    3. In the North Sea
    4. In the Arabian Gulf

  13. Which is the category of tanker that has the highest deadweight?
    1. Suezmax
    2. Handymax
    3. Panamax
    4. Aframax

  14. What is the most common period of laytime within a charter party?
    1. 36 hours
    2. 24 hours
    3. 48 hours
    4. 72 hours

  15. You have received a demurrage invoice, is it in respect of:
    1. Vessel port charges
    2. Crew costs
    3. Delays to the vessel
    4. Bunker fuel consumed by the vessel

  16. Which is the most valuable crude oil?
    1. 10 API
    2. 20 API
    3. 30 API
    4. 40 API

  17. Which is the most valuable crude oil?
    1. Medium sulphur
    2. Low sulphur
    3. High sulphur

  18. What does GPW stand for?
    1. Gross Product Weight
    2. Gross Product Worth
    3. General Product Weight
    4. General Purpose weighting

  19. What refining units are present in a hydro skimming refinery?
    1. CDU
    2. CDU + Coker
    3. CDU + Reformer
    4. CDU + Reformer + FCCU

  20. Which hydrocarbon type has the highest octane number?
    1. Paraffins
    2. Naphthenes
    3. Aromatics

  21. Which refining process will produce the best quality heating oil?
    1. Visbreaker
    2. FCCU
    3. Hydrocracker
    4. Coker

  22. You have sold 10 lots of IPE Gas Oil. Today are you:
    1. Long
    2. Short
    3. Neutral
    4. Short only when the contract expires

  23. What does FOB mean?
    1. Freight or barge
    2. Free on board
    3. Fuel oil barge
    4. Fixed oil broker

  24. What does CFR mean?
    1. Cost and freight
    2. Cost for receiver
    3. Chartering for receiver
    4. Clean freight received

  25. Which contract price would you expect to be the most expensive?
    1. FOB
    2. DDU
    3. CIF
    4. CFR

  26. When does title and risk generally pass under a fob contract?
    1. At the loading flange
    2. At the discharge flange
    3. At the loading tank
    4. At the discharge tank

  27. Who charters the tanker in a chain of FOB buyers?
    1. The prime supplier of the cargo
    2. The first FOB buyer in the chain
    3. The last FOB buyer in the chain
    4. The final receiver of the cargo

  28. What quality is measure in centistokes?
    1. Flash point
    2. Pour point
    3. Viscosity
    4. Thermal stability

  29. Which of the following specifications do not blend linearly?
    1. Sulphur
    2. Density
    3. Viscosity
    4. Aromatics

  30. You have sold a cargo of oil to your buyer, and you want some form of security on the deal. Which is the best for you?
    1. Open credit
    2. Telegraphic transfer
    3. A bank standby letter of credit
    4. A bank documentary letter of credit

  31. One of the tasks undertaken by a Classification Society is to:
    1. Produce a ranking of tankers based on speed
    2. Produce a ranking of tankers based on age
    3. Manage the stores on board tankers
    4. Manage the issuance of safety certificates on tankers

  32. Primary stocks are found:
    1. at a retail gasoline station
    2. in the ground - yet to be recovered
    3. at a producer's terminal
    4. at a wholesalers terminal

  33. R/P ratio means:
    1. Retail to purchase cost ratio
    2. Reserves to proven reserves ratio
    3. Reserves to production ratio
    4. Retail sales to production ratio

  34. Production field unitisation means:
    1. Sharing the reserves out equally in a reservoir
    2. Combining licenced blocks into one consortium
    3. Electing the biggest field shareholder as operator
    4. Selling off unusable parts of a licenced block

  35. In a time charter the charterer pays for:
    1. the crew plus fuel
    2. the fuel plus port charges
    3. the fuel plus crew plus port charges
    4. the crew plus port charges

  36. AFRA stands for:
    1. Average Freight Return Assessment
    2. Audited Fiscal Recovery Assessment
    3. Average Freight Rate Assessment
    4. Audited Freight Rate Assessment

 

 

 

 

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