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Record W2020808340 · doi:10.2118/64455-ms

The Stuart Oil Shale Project

2000· article· en· W2020808340 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
James D. McFarland, P. D. Hopkins

Bibliographic record

VenueSPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicHydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOil shaleRetortPetroleumResource (disambiguation)MilestonePetroleum industryShale oilStage (stratigraphy)EngineeringCompletion (oil and gas wells)Unconventional oilTight oilPetroleum engineeringGeologyArchaeologyWaste managementEnvironmental engineeringComputer scienceGeographyPaleontology

Abstract

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Abstract The A$250 million Stuart Stage 1 Oil Shale Project in Queensland, Australia is one of the most significant new developments in the non-conventional oil industry. The Stuart Project is a joint venture between Australian companies Southern Pacific Petroleum N.L. and Central Pacific Minerals N.L. (SPP/CPM), and Canada's Suncor Energy Inc. (Suncor). An important milestone was reached in 1999 with completion of construction of the Stuart Stage 1 technology demonstration plant. This 4,500 b/d (715 m3/d) plant, constructed by Bechtel, is currently being commissioned by Suncor, the project operator. The Stuart oil shale deposit has an estimated in situ resource of 3 billion barrels of shale oil. The Stuart Project incorporates the Alberta-Taciuk Processor (ATP), a new generation of oil-shale retorting technology which was chosen following a A$150 million R&D program in the 1980s. Upon technical and operational success in Stage 1, the next step is to scale up the ATP in Stage 2 to a commercial sized module producing 15,000 b/d (2,350 m3/d). This could lead to a commercial scale operation of at least 85,000 b/d (13,500 m3/d). Success at Stuart will have important implications for Australia in terms of job creation and development of a new source of indigenous oil supply. It could also be important for world oil supply given the immense size of the world's oil shale resource.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.043
Threshold uncertainty score0.136

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0410.012

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 head0.014
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.203 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
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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