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Record W1989516464 · doi:10.2118/95872-ms

The Dry Coal Anomaly – The Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada

2005· article· en· W1989516464 on OpenAlex
Ottmar Hoch

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Bibliographic record

VenueSPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicCoal Properties and Utilization
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCanyonHydraulic fracturingWell stimulationGeologyCoalPermeability (electromagnetism)DewateringPetroleum engineeringDrillingCoal miningMining engineeringPetroleumGeotechnical engineeringWaste managementChemistryMaterials scienceGeomorphologyEngineeringReservoir engineering

Abstract

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Abstract The Horseshoe Canyon coal formation in Alberta, Canada is an anomaly for coals. It is dry, for the most part producing no formation water. Therefore, no dewatering is required. In fact, it is severely damaged by water influx. Normal permeability injection tests and conventional hydraulic fracturing techniques, even foams, have been unsuccessful in this environment. The best part of this reservoir has an areal extent in excess of 12,000 square miles containing 1-2 BCF per square mile of recoverable gas. Commercial development of this resource is a very appealing prospect. Numbers of coal seams vary from 5 to 30 per well, spread out over 600 – 1,300 ft. Individual seam thicknesses vary from 1 to 13 ft. Most seams are discontinuous over a large area. The better part of the formation has permeability in the range of 1 – 100 md. This makes it difficult to avoid damaging the formation during drilling and cementing operations, hence some type of stimulation is required. Nitrogen hydraulic fracturing is the only stimulation process that has had any success in this formation to date. The treatments involve pumping nitrogen at high rates, without proppant, through coiled tubing (CT) and a selective cup-type packer (SCP), isolating each coal seam while treating it. Bottomhole treating gradients vary greatly with an average of approximately 2.2 psi/ft. Whether these nitrogen treatments are in fact fracturing the formation or just having the damage flushed out has been a matter for speculation. Over 1,600 wells have been treated in this way and more continue to be added on an everyday basis. This paper describes the formation characteristics and geology of the Horseshoe Canyon coal and presents case histories of hydraulic fracturing treatments performed including production results.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.695
Threshold uncertainty score0.942

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
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 science0.0000.000
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 head0.200
Teacher spread0.190 · 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