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Record W2030226704 · doi:10.2118/0711-0098-jpt

Technology Focus: Unconventional Resources (July 2011)

2011· article· en· W2030226704 on OpenAlex
M. Polikar

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Petroleum Technology · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnergy
TopicGlobal Energy and Sustainability Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRenewable energyNatural resource economicsUnconventional oilNatural gasNatural resourceNon-renewable resourceHydraulic fracturingCoalbed methaneNuclear powerBusinessFossil fuelEconomicsPetroleum engineeringEngineeringWaste managementCoalPolitical science

Abstract

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Technology Focus The future of “unconventionals” is upon us! The 21st century will see the growth of clean renewable-energy sources. Natural gas will play a prominent role. Currently, a large portion of the natural gas comes from unconventional sources (e.g., shale gas, tight gas, coalbed methane, and, soon, gas hydrates). Shale and tight gas exploitation are widely commercialized, with constant improvement of fracturing techniques to increase yield and decrease costs. North America is leading the way in unconventional-resources recovery and technology development. Transfer of these technologies to up-and-coming players has become essential. This has to be managed carefully to minimize environmental, societal, and political effects. Nations that are deficient in natural resources are turning to importing necessary fuels or wisely gathering renewable resources. For example: What will Japan do after the accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant? Will it still invest as much as it used to in nuclear power to supply its energy needs? Will Japan increase its imports of nonrenewable energies, such as liquefied natural gas, or rely on renewable energies such as wind power? What will be the nature of its main demand for energy in the near future and in the long term, and how will it strike a delicate balance between these options? China has emerged as the second world power behind the USA. It also has immense nonrenewable resources that are being exploited. East/West relationships are changing with regard to energy resources. Other players besides China (i.e., India, Australia, and Europe) are starting to exploit their unconventional resources by taking advantage of the dissemination of new technologies. Inevitably, cards must be redealt in light of this new reality. What are the new challenges of this century? Who will be the new energy partners of the western world, and what kind of relationships will be built? How will this new reality influence the choices of economic and resource development? Future opportunities are great, and unconventional resources clearly will play a key role in our future energy landscape. Unconventional Resources additional reading available at OnePetro: www.onepetro.org SPE 137667 • “Natural-Gas Hydrates: Development and Test of Innovative Methods for Gas Production From Hydrate-Bearing Sediments” by J.M. Schicks, Helmholtz Centre, Potsdam German Research Centre for Geosciences, et al. SPE 140864 • “Managing Environmental Risks From Shale-Gas Exploration—Applying Lessons Learned in the US to New Ventures in Poland” by F.V. Jones, SPE, ERM Southwest, et al. SPE 139723 • “Enhanced Gas Recovery and CO2 Storage in Coalbed-Methane Reservoirs: Optimized Injected-Gas Composition for Mature Basins of Various Coal Rank” by Karine Schepers, SPE, Advanced Resources International, et al. SPE 144093 • “Application of Propane (LPG)-Based Hydraulic Fracturing in the McCully Gas Field, New Brunswick, Canada” by Don LeBlanc, SPE, Eastex Petroleum Consultants, et al.

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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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.308
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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 head0.014
GPT teacher head0.247
Teacher spread0.233 · 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