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Record W2749709352 · doi:10.1071/aj00036

SHALE OIL—A NEW PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM

2001· article· en· W2749709352 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
James D. McFarland

Bibliographic record

VenueThe APPEA Journal · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicHydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOil shaleRetortPetroleumShale oilFossil fuelPetroleum industryJoint ventureTight oilEngineeringProduction (economics)Unconventional oilWaste managementEnvironmental sciencePetroleum engineeringEnvironmental engineeringBusinessGeology

Abstract

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Australia’s oil shale deposits in Central Queensland represent an immense potential source of high quality hydrocarbons, with an estimated 30 billion barrels of insitu oil. Using new production technology, the low sulphur oil products produced from these oil shale deposits could significantly enhance Australia’s options in meeting future demands for cleaner transport fuels to improve air quality and in reducing dependence on oil imports. As such, the Stuart Oil Shale Project at Gladstone in Queensland is one of the most significant new developments in the Australasian oil and gas industry. The Stuart Project is a joint venture between Australian companies Southern Pacific Petroleum NL and Central Pacific Minerals NL (SPP/CPM), and Canada’s Suncor Energy Inc (Suncor). Construction of the $285 million Stuart Stage 1 technology demonstration plant was completed in 1999 and commissioning and production testing of this 4,500 b/d (715 m3/d) plant by Suncor, the project operator, has progressed throughout 2000. The Stuart Project incorporates the Alberta-Taciuk Processor (ATP), a new generation of oil shale retorting technology which was chosen following a A$150 million R&D program in the 1980s. Upon technical and operational success in Stage 1, the expected next step involves scaling up the ATP in Stage 2 to a commercial sized module producing about 15,000 b/d (2,350 m3/d). This could lead to a commercial scale operation at Stuart of at least 85,000 b/d (13,500 m3/d) within the decade. Success at Stuart creates a new production development paradigm for oil shale. This will have important implications for Australia in terms of job creation and economic activity, as well as providing a new source of indigenous oil supply to deliver clean transportation fuels for Australia’s future.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.868
Threshold uncertainty score0.327

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.198 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
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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