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Record W1980744450 · doi:10.3720/japt.69.612

Development of Canada oilsands-Further challenges

2004· article· en· W1980744450 on OpenAlexaffabout
Kiyoshi Ogino

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of the Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnergy
TopicGlobal Energy and Sustainability Research
Canadian institutionsImperial Oil (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeology

Abstract

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Bitumen from oilsands that has been regarded only as an alternative resource for the next generation in Japan is recognized as what makes up production decline of conventional petroleum resources at the North American crude oil market. One third or more of the total oil production in Canada is from synthetic crude oil based on the bitumen or the diluted bitumen. Therefore, the bitumen has already shown its presence and will no longer be called unconventional.The order of Canadian oilsand in-place is equal to that of Saudi Arabia's. The Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) estimated that Athabasca area has 1, 600 billion bbls of bitumen in-place and it has been regarded as one of the largest hydrocarbon reserves in the world. The amount of reserves is formally evaluated as 175 billion bbls by ERCB and the Alberta Energy Utilities Board (AEUB) at present.Major oil companies are positively involved in the Canadian oilsand development as oil business, positioning it as one of the important investment options for making balance against the investment risks in geopolitically unstable areas, so that it is included in their global portfolios from a viewpoint of stable oil supply. There is a prediction that the bitumen production will reach two thirds of the oil production in Canada within a decade and will also increase three times by 2017.The huge amount of the bitumen reserves will fill the gap between supply and demand of the North American oil market. Athabasca may become one of the main production centers and the oilsand bitumen may be in a global portfolio of oil companies as a long-life and stable resource. Solutions to problems such as total process establishment, stabilization of netback bitumen price and gas price, and expansion of the market are breakthrough points to make the story much more realistic.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.545
Threshold uncertainty score0.918

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.225 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2004
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