Exercises

I. Ответьте на вопросы:

1. How can one determine that the surface structures are favourable for oil?

2. Is it enough to know only the surface indications for discovering oil?

3. What is to be known to make a surface contour map of the area?

4. Do the surface strata always conform to the subsurface beds?

5. Why is it important to study the fossil remains in the surface rocks?

II. Переведите на русский язык:

1. To predict the most favourable site for the location of a test well geologists should study surface indications of oil.

2. Surface indications to serve as a guide to the subsurface conditions should be thoroughly studied by oil geologists to choose the proper place for drilling.

3. Geologists consider oil and gas seeps, asphaltic outcrops and some other surface indications to be of interest for discovering oil in commercial quantities.

4. To have a contour map of the region under investigation is very important for oil geologists.

III. Переведите на английский язык:

1. Считают, что остатки ископаемых представляют интерес, так как они помогут определить геологический возраст пластов.

2. Сделать контурную карту района – трудная задача.

3. Разведывательная скважина, которую нужно будет пробурить, покажет нам, нефтеносны ли подземные пласты.

4. Чтобы найти нефть, нужно учесть все данные относительно изучаемого района.

IV. Назовите синонимы к следующим словам:

to aid, well, to direct, beneath, to resolve, formation, to take into account, bed, accurately, as to, often, to commence, to draw a conclusion, purpose, several, evidence.

V. Назовите антонимы к следующим словам:

careful, unfavourable, direct, impossible, thick, unconformable, absence, to close, to underlie, accurate, often, known.

VI. Переведите на русский язык:

1) subsurface strata

2) commercial oil pools

3) petroliferous substances

4) petroleum producing regions

5) the location of a test well

6) the surface survey

7) drilling mud

8) in paying quantities

9) pay sand