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Record W2076506139 · doi:10.2118/166310-ms

Managing Offshore Megaprojects: Success is an Option

2013· article· en· W2076506139 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Gordon H. Sterling

Bibliographic record

VenueSPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicMarine and Offshore Engineering Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersRice University
KeywordsSubmarine pipelineAgency (philosophy)Fossil fuelOffshore oil and gasPetroleum industryQuarter (Canadian coin)Project managementBusinessEngineeringComputer scienceEngineering managementOperations managementSystems engineeringHistoryWaste managementSociology

Abstract

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Abstract The success or failure of any offshore oil and gas development project is dependent on effective integration of intelligent processes, deep-seated technical expertise, multiple company and agency interactions and relationships, solid management and vigorous leadership. This is especially true for deepwater oil and gas developments where the costs are high, the schedules are critical, the technologies used are broad-based and deep, and there is heavy involvement of engaged stakeholders. Recent papers and books, with solid support in data and statistics, have shown that less than one-quarter of the international offshore oil and gas development projects have achieved "success" in any meaningful sense of that word. Furthermore, in a few cases, those that do are the beneficiaries of changed economic circumstances that override the real deficiencies. Based on many years of project experience, involving both success and failure, this paper deals with the many elements that create the environment where success is probable and failure is NOT inevitable.

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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)0.013
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.020
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.067

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0130.020
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.004
Scholarly communication0.0120.007
Open science0.0010.008
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.002

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 head0.016
GPT teacher head0.239
Teacher spread0.223 · 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 designQualitative
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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Citations6
Published2013
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