We've given the Win it Minute an OE17 makeover
How well do you know your Oil & Gas?
Last updated 19th Jan 2018
Jeff and Lauren play their Win it Minute every weekday morning at 8.10am, 10 Questions in 60 Seconds to win £250!
We decided to give it a bit of an Offshore Europe twist and take it to the AECC to see how the exhibition goers would get on with 10 industry related questions ...how many could you get right? Scroll to the bottom of the page for the answers.
1) What year did the queen formally open the UK’s first oil pipeline?
2) What property of fluids indicates their resistance to flow?
3) Wind turbines convert what type of energy in the wind to mechanical power?
4) Petroleum is Latin for what?
5) What is the largest oil field discovery in the history of the UK?
6) What is the price of oil calculated in?
7) If oil or gas is not found in commercial quantities, the well is called?
8) What does LNG stands for?
9) The act of forcing a device through a pipeline for the purposes of displacing or separating fluids, and cleaning or inspecting the line is called?
10) What is the name given to the tall, main structure of the drilling rig
Here's how our contestants got on...
Fiona Campbell, Robert Gordon University
Eddie Breem, Swagelok
David Rodger, Shell
Claire Bone, University of Aberdeen
Alexander Innes, Energy Institute
ANSWERS:
1) 1975 2) Viscosity 3) Kinetic 4) Rock Oil 5) Forties Field 6) Barrels 7) Dry Hole 8) Liquefied Natural Gas 9) Pigging 10) Derrick