- •Часть I
- •Contents
- •Introduction
- •Acknowledgements
- •Unit 1 petroleum engineering
- •Terms and Vocabulary
- •1. Read and remember the pronunciation.
- •2. Pay attention to the stress in the following words.
- •3. Read the text, fulfill the exercises Petroleum engineering
- •4. Match the English terms in column “a” with their Russian equivalents in column “b”.
- •10. Give the English equivalents to the Russian words.
- •11. An English-English dictionary helps you to understand different terms. Look up the words in the box. Match the terms with the definitions.
- •12. Classify the responsibilities of a reservoir engineer and a drilling engineer into two groups.
- •13. Complete the sentences, using the information from the text.
- •14. According to the text the operations are performed in the following order. Put the phrases in the logical order.
- •15. State whether the sentences are true or false. If true, add the information on the statement. If false, correct the sentence.
- •17. Answer the following questions.
- •18. Read the extracts from www.Conocophollips.Com. Report back to your group-mates. Answer any possible questions.
- •Wordlist
- •Unit 2 oil companies
- •Terms and Vocabulary
- •1. Read the words, remember the pronunciation.
- •2. Read the following word formations and remember their pronunciation Pay special attention to the stress
- •3. Pay attention to the following abbreviation that can be found in this unit
- •4. Scan the text and fulfill the tasks
- •Оil Industry Sectors
- •The entire oil industry is often divided into three major sectors: upstream, midstream and downstream.
- •Downstream (oil industry)
- •Upstream (oil industry)
- •Midstream (oil industry)
- •5. State whether the sentences are true or false. If true, add the information on the statement. If false, correct the sentence.
- •Pronunciation of the name
- •13. Put the necessary preposition in each of the spaces.
- •14. What do the following abbreviations stand for?
- •15. Read the following statements and decide if they are correct or not. Use (c) for correct sentences and (f) for false ones, give your correct variant.
- •16. 9 Listen to the tape and answer the questions given below.
- •17. Domestic and foreign oil companies. Fill in the chart using information from additional resources: for example, www. Wikipedia.Ed
- •18. 9 A. Listen to the text, remember the key words.
- •19. Study the definitions in Appendix (pg. 83-84 ). Match departments and personnel with their definitions.
- •20. How is an oil company organized?
- •21. Read the text and discuss the after-text questions An Example of a Difference between Russian and Western Operating Company Structure
- •22. Answer the following questions:
- •23. Role play: You are welcoming a visitor to your company.
- •Wordlist
- •Oil formation
- •Terms and Vocabulary
- •Read the words, remember the pronunciation.
- •2. Read the texts, fulfill the exercises. What is Crude Oil?
- •What are Hydrocarbons?
- •Forming Oil
- •Close-up of reservoir rock (oil is in black)
- •3. Read the following word combinations and give the Russian equivalents.
- •4. Find the English equivalents to the following terms and phrases.
- •5. Complete the following sentences
- •Draw a diagram of oil formation. Label it. Describe the process using your diagram.
- •7. Work in pairs.
- •8. Read the following text “How Oil Becomes Oil” and fulfill the exercises
- •How Oil Becomes Oil
- •Give Russian equivalents to the following English ones.
- •10. Give definitions to the following terms.
- •11. State whether the following sentences are true or false.
- •12. Put the facts into the correct order showing how oil becomes oil.
- •13. 9 You will hear a lecture on petroleum. For questions 1-6, choose the best answer a, b, or c.
- •14. Discuss the following questions
- •15. Scan the text given below and describe the main oil properties based on the information you learn. Complete the table.
- •Physical and Chemical Properties of Oil
- •16. Listen to the following lecture “Petroleum element system” (pp).
- •17. Presentation topics
- •Wordlist
- •Unit 4 hse (Health, Safety, Environment)
- •Terms and Vocabulary
- •Read the words, remember the pronunciation.
- •Read the text, fulfill the exercises.
- •Leadership
- •Incident Investigation (Accidents, Incidents, Wokplace Injuries) аnd hse Reporting
- •Personal Protective Equipment
- •Alcohol And Drug Abuse
- •General Requirements to Work Implementation
- •Work at Height
- •Lifting Operations
- •Transportation Safety
- •Contractor Management
- •Emergency Prevention and Response
- •Environment
- •3. Pay attention to the following word-formations.
- •4. Fill in the gaps with the word(s) from the list below. Explanation to these terms are given in the brackets.
- •5. Fill in the correct preposition, then choose two items and compose sentences.
- •6. Match the problems with the ways of their solution.
- •7. Compose collocations from the following words
- •8. Match the items with their function.
- •9. Classify the words into 2 categories. Guess what these categories are. Add some more items to each category.
- •10. 9 Study the definitions given in Appendix (pg. 87-88 ).
- •11. Read the text again and make notes under the following headings, then talk about hse performance.
- •12. Describe what mistakes were made by personnel in the following situations.
- •Well service.
- •Drilling rig.
- •13. A. Read the announcement about Ecological conference. Say what problems will be considered at the conference, who will participate in it, what the schedule of the conference is.
- •Wordlist
- •Appendix unit 2
- •References
- •Геология и нефтегазовое дело
- •Часть I (geology and petroleum engineering) (Part I)
Pronunciation of the name
The company name is that of its eponymous founders, the French Alsatian Schlumberger brothers. It is pronounced [ʃlʌmbʊɹʒeɪ] in IPA notation (phonetic: "shlum-bur-ZJAY").
(www. Wikipedia.ed)
7. Translate the following word groups into Russian.
Oil refinery, pipeline company, market value, production activity, oil and gas exploration, groundwater industry, software and information management, market leader, private sector energy corporation.
8. Give the synonyms to the following words.
the whole, to provide, to look for, to include, survey, manufacturer, corporation, estimation.
9. Classify the word into Business terms and Petroleum Engineering terms.
Crude oil, retail outlet, refinery, joint venture, market value, profit, pipelines, formation evaluation, share, artificial lift, headquarters, vendor, seismic acquisition, well completion, offshore location, consumer, raw natural gas, revenue.
10. Translate from Russian into English.
Сырая нефть, вся нефтяная промышленность ,удобрения, нефтеперерабатывающий завод, точки розничной торговли, центральный офис, синтетический каучук, определение параметров пласта, принадлежащий государству, совместное предприятие, рыночная стоимость, наклонно-направленное бурение, сейсмическая обработка, филиал.
11. There are words of international meaning and their pronunciation is different. Find these words in the text and write them out.
12. Match the English terms in column “A” with their Russian equivalent in column “B”.
A B
1.asset manager |
A.центральный офис |
2. seismic processing |
B. нефтеперерабатывающий завод |
3. to allocate budget |
C. нефтесервисы |
4. open joint stock company |
D. показатели эффективности деятельности |
5. refinery |
E. годовая прибыль |
6. headquarters |
F. материально-техническое обеспечение |
7. oilfield services |
G. руководитель актива |
8. procurement |
H. распределять бюджетные средства |
9. performance indicators |
I. обработка сейсмических данных |
10. revenue |
J. открытое акционерное общество |
13. Put the necessary preposition in each of the spaces.
1. The oil industry is often divided __________ three major sectors.
2. The downstream oil sector is a term commonly used to refer ________ the refining _________crude oil, and the selling and distribution of natural gas and products derived _________ crude oil.
3. The upstream sector includes the searching _________ potential underground or underwater oil and gas fields.
5. Midstream operations are usually simply included __________the downstream category.
6. The process of oil production, transportation, refinery and sale is managed _______oil companies.
7. These are deeply involved _______ the oil business providing services that help oil companies to carry ________ their operations.
8. The company's main business is the exploration _________and the production, processing, transportation and marketing of hydrocarbons.
9. Shell is incorporated in the UK with its corporate headquarters in The Hague, its tax residence is _______ the Netherlands, and its primary listings _______ the London Stock Exchange.
10. Shell's revenues _______ $318.8 billion _______2006 made it the second-largest corporation in the world ______ revenues behind only ExxonMobil.
11.Rosneft conducts oil and gas exploration and production activities _______ Sakhalin island, _____ Siberia, ________ the Timan-Pechora province, and ___southern Russia, including Chechnya.
12. Its plant _______ Tuapse, ________ the Black Sea, focuses __________ refining high-gravity oil from western Siberia.
13. According _________its website, it seems to be completely owned _______ the Russian Federation.