SS: Canadian: Atlantic Development: The Sydney Basin of Eastern Canada An Overlooked Carboniferous Basin with Demonstrated Petroleum Potential Thoughts, Facts and Musings
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Abstract
Introductory Comments The Sydney Basin represents the most easterly extent of the upper Paleozoic fill of the much larger Maritimes Basin of Atlantic Canada (Figure 1). Thick sequences (12 km+) of mid-Devonian to Upper Carboniferous / Permian sediments include thick non-marine, multi-storied sandstones, extensive limestones and thick salt overlain by multistoried fluvial sands and coal measures. It is worth noting that a significant portion of Canada's light oil and gas output comes from Paleozoic reservoirs, and over 20% of world oil reserves originate in Paleozoic reservoirs. (Enachescu, M.E, 2006) The Carboniferous sediments of the Maritimes Basin have been productive since the very early 1900's with both oil and gas being produced over an 80+ year period from the Early Carboniferous rocks in the neighbouring province of New Brunswick. Corridor Resources of Halifax has been producing natural gas from the McCully field in New Brunswick from these same sediments since 2003. That field is now connected to the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline which provides some 400+ mmcf/d to markets locally and to the northeastern U.S. Corridor has also made a significant discovery of oil in sandstone lying beneath as well. Oil shales are found in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Stealth Ventures Ltd. has committed to eastern Canada's first coalbed methane production agreement in the Cumberland Basin of western Nova Scotia. One nearshore well drilled just in the same rock units on the western side of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia yielded gas rates of 5.5MMcf/d. Shale gas has been evaluated in Nova Scotia with independent estimates suggesting that some 63 trillion cubic feet (in place) may exist in only one of several basins where the shales are known to occur. On June 24, 2008 Elmworth Energy Corporation submitted a development plan as part of their application in accordance with requirements for a shale gas production agreement. In each case sited, the mentioned resource has both its source and reservoir unit within the Carboniferous interval. Some fifteen companies are currently exploring for, or are developing, Carboniferous reservoirs in the Maritimes Basin of Atlantic Canada.
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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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| 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".