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Questions Related to geography

How much percentage of India’s petroleum production is from Mumbai High? 

  1. 32%

  2. 43%

  3. 63%

  4. 90%


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

About 63 per cent of India’s petroleum production is from Mumbai High, 18 per cent from Gujarat and 16 per cent from Assam.

Mumbai High field refers to the ________.

  1. Greater Mumbai area

  2. Highest place in Mumbai

  3. Slopes of Western Ghats

  4. Oil field below seabed off Mumbai island


Correct Option: D

'Black Gold' refers to ___________.

  1. Coal

  2. Petroleum

  3. Gold

  4. Diamond


Correct Option: B

The State having the maximum number of oil wells on its land portion is _______.

  1. Gujarat

  2. Maharashtra

  3. Assam

  4. Bihar


Correct Option: A

Naharkatiya oilfields are located in _______.

  1. Tripura

  2. West Bengal

  3. Assam

  4. Madhya Pradesh


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Gas and Oil fields are located in Naharkatiya, Assam. Oil from these fields is sent to Nunmati for refining and gas is made into electricity at Namrup.

What is the is common thing to Guwahati, Barauni, Koyali, Haldia,Digboi and Mathura?

  1. Public sector refineries, owned by the Indian oil corporation are located in these places

  2. They are prominent game sanctuaries

  3. They are hill stations

  4. Oil and natural gas commission has its units in all these places


Correct Option: A

________ is a Oil refinery plant.

  1. Noonmati

  2. Visakhapatnam

  3. Mathura

  4. Koyali


Correct Option: A

'Sagar Samrat' is _____________.

  1. an oil drilling platform in Mumbai High

  2. an island in Indian Ocean

  3. a ship used for Antarctica expedition

  4. a space craft


Correct Option: A

______ Oilfield of India has the largest quantity of recoverable reserves.

  1. Moran Oilfield

  2. Mumbai High (off shore) Oilfield

  3. Ankaleshwar Oilfield

  4. Naharkatiya Oilfield


Correct Option: B

Important oil fields of the Brahmaputra Valley include ________.

  1. Digboi and Kilboi

  2. Lunej and Ankleshwar

  3. Badarapur and Masimpur

  4. Naharkatia and Moran


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

All the oil and gas fields discovered till date in the Upper Assam shelf, are situated mostly on the southeastern slope of the Brahmaputra arch. Some of the major oil fields are Nahorkatiya, Lakwa, Lakhmani, Geleki, Dikom Kathaloni, etc.