Geochemistry monitoring of CO2 storage at the CO2CRC Otway Project, Victoria: operational mode*
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Abstract
The CO2CRC Otway Project is an Australian-first, demonstration-scale CO2 geosequestration experiment. It incorporates a wide-ranging monitoring and verification operation, including the injection of chemical tracers and the geochemical characterisation of the subsurface fluids sampled from the Naylor–1 monitoring well multi-zone U-tube system. Following the successful collection of baseline gas and fluid samples, injection began in April 2008 and by September 2008 over 20,000 tonnes of the projected total of ~100,000 tonnes of supercritical CO2 has been injected into the depleted Waarre C unit of the Naylor gas reservoir in the Otway Basin. Critical operational issues revolved around the timing of the chemical tracer injection at the CRC–1 injection well and the on-going maintenance and modifications to the U-tube sampling assembly. The latter resulted from two things: a hazard and operability study (HAZOP), which specifically addressed the continued integrity of the U-tube assembly and the safe collection and disposal of pressurised gases and formation waters, and the need for an innovative solution to mitigate against hydrocarbon wax precipitation inside the U-tubes that would have jeopardise retrieval of sub-surface samples. A solvent delivery and retrieval system involving Solvesso–100TM was deployed following a mini-HAZOP. Breakthrough was initially confirmed by tracer detection at Naylor–1 approximately four months after injection began, whereas changes in the inorganic geochemical signatures were observed a few weeks later. This has validated the sub-surface monitoring strategy and resulted in refinements to fluid flow models and expanded our understanding of geochemical processes. Furthermore, supercritical CO2 injection has resulted in the lowering of the gas-water contact at Naylor–1 and the progressive gassing out of the deeper U-tubes. Weekly to fortnightly U-tube sampling will continue until supercritical CO2 is established at Naylor–1 following which the frequency of sampling will be reviewed for the rest of the injection period.
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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
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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 | 0.001 | 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) | 0.003 | 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".