Delivering Social Performance During Appraisal: The Case of Royal Dutch Shell's Grosmont Venture in Northern Alberta, Canada
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Abstract
Abstract This paper summarises the approach adopted by Royal Dutch Shell's Grosmont Venture towards social performance during its winter 2007 appraisal campaign in Northern Alberta, Canada. The paper first considers the background to the appraisal activities, as well as the local environmental and socio-political context. The paper then provides a summary of Royal Dutch Shell's Global framework for social performance and its conceptual relevance to the Grosmont Venture. The next two sections of the paper look in detail at the strategic and operational approach adopted by the Venture. At the strategic level the paper summarizes how the concept of ‘Business Integration’ was used to drive the Venture's approach to all non-technical issues including social performance. In particular the specific organizational structure, values and principles for, and management systems and processes adopted by the Venture are all identified as being critical for establishing the framework within which the appraisal campaign's social performance activities were undertaken. The operationalisation of the business integration approach and specific management of social performance issues during the Grosmont Venture's 2007 winter appraisal campaign is next considered. A number of specific examples are provided in relation to the Venture's approach to impact assessment and consultation, management of social impacts and delivery of community benefits. Finally the impact of these activities both for the Grosmont Venture, as well as for local First Nation and other stakeholders in summarized. The final two sections of the paper discuss the key success factors supporting the Venture's successful appraisal campaign as well as areas for future consideration. The Business Integration strategy is above all highlighted as being critical in driving the approach – in particular in terms of ensuring equal consideration of social performance and other non technical factors along side technical and commercial considerations. The role the Venture Manager and senior operational managers played in supporting business integration and related social performance activities is also highlighted. A number of areas for future consideration are identified including how to further institutionalize the business integration model, as well as some of the more strategic social performance challenges for a potential commercial project.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.024 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".