Carmon Creek Thermal Field Development Project
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Carmon Creek is Shell's Heavy Oil In-Situ thermal field development project in Peace River, Alberta, Canada. The Peace River Lease contains some 10 billion barrels of bitumen in-place at a depth of 600 m with viscosity as high as 100,000 cP. The Carmon Creek Phase 1&2 facilities, targeting a subset of this resource, are planned to start-up in 2018 and include oil treatment at 80,000 bod, produced water recycling and steam generation at 50 kt/d and electricity from co-generation at 600 MW. Over the project life-cycle, approximately 7000 dedicated wells (injectors and producers) will be drilled. The Carmon Creek development concept is a combination of cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) and vertical steam drive (VSD) utilizing vertical and deviated wells in inverted 7-spot patterns at a well spacing of 115m (or 2.8 acres). Produced and imported gas is burnt to generate steam and electricity in co-generation facilities. Electricity is exported to market. After transfer of the thermal energy in the steam the bitumen viscosity is reduced sufficiently enabling production via conventional beam pumps. The produced emulsion is separated into gas, oil and water for treatment in the central processing facilities. Acid gas consisting CO2 and H2S is re-injected to deep disposal and the remaining treated produced gas burned in the co-generation facilities. Treated bitumen is mixed with diluents for pipeline export. Steam generation is fed by recycled water with excess water stored in a saline aquifer, which can be back-produced as needed. This paper provides an overview of the main aspects of the field development, the challenges related to project delivery for a mega-thermal development and the solutions that were selected to address these challenges.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".