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Record W4317798227 · doi:10.1021/cen-10103-buscon7

BASF takes huge write-off

2023· article· en· W4317798227 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Alex Tullo

Bibliographic record

VenueC&EN Global Enterprise · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicArctic and Russian Policy Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQuarter (Canadian coin)Value (mathematics)EarningsBusinessFinanceEconomyEconomicsGeographyComputer science

Abstract

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BASF has taken a massive write-off of assets—$5.8 billion in the fourth quarter —for Wintershall Dea as the oil and gas affiliate exits completely from its Russian operations. The write-down includes the value of Wintershall Dea’s stake in the Nord Stream pipeline from Russia to Germany. BASF has taken a total of $7.8 billion in write-offs in 2022 related to Wintershall Dea, in which it owns a 73% interest . “Continuing to operate in Russia is not tenable. Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine is incompatible with our values and has destroyed co-operation between Russia and Europe,” Wintershall Dea CEO Mario Mehren says in a statement. He also accuses Russia of expropriating Wintershall Dea’s joint ventures in the country. In its preannouncement of 2022 earnings, BASF says it expects a loss of $1.5 billion for the year, primarily because of the write-down. It earned nearly $6.0 billion in 2021 .

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.164
Threshold uncertainty score0.550

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0050.001
Scholarly communication0.0080.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0060.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1640.078

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 head0.342
Teacher spread0.322 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

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

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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