Mexican Unconventional Plays: Geoscience, Endowment, and Economic Considerations
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Summary Successful activities in the Eagle Ford Shale in Texas through drilling of horizontal wells and completions by use of multistage-hydraulic-fracturing jobs suggest that the potential of shale reservoirs farther south will be quite significant. This observation leads to the objective of this paper: to examine geoscience and engineering data of tight and shale reservoirs in Mexico with a view to estimating the oil and gas endowment, and to determine the economics of developing these plays under current and forecast possible oil and gas prices. Plays considered in this study include the Burgos, Sabinas, Tampico, Tuxpan (Platform), Veracruz, and Chihuahua Basins. Endowment is defined by the US Geological Survey (USGS) (USGS 2000) as the sum of known volumes of oil and gas (cumulative production plus remaining reserves) and undiscovered volumes. The economics of these plays is examined with the use of cumulative long-run supply (or availability) curves. These are presented as crossplots of production costs per barrel of oil or per Mcf of gas vs. endowments for the aggregate of basins, and are very useful to demonstrate how endowment volumes vary at different price levels. It is concluded that the potential of unconventional resources in Mexico is quite significant and will help to change the slope of production rates in the country from negative to positive. As a result, it is anticipated that Mexico will become an important part of the shale-petroleum revolution started in the US.
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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 | 0.001 | 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) | 0.001 | 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 it