Inside the halo zone: Geology, finance, and the corporate performance of profit in a deep tight oil formation
Inside the halo zone: Geology, finance, and the corporate performance of profit in a deep tight oil formation
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光晕区内部：深层致密油地层中的地质、金融和企业利润表现
DOI：
10.1002/sea2.12043
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Caura L. Wood
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作者：
Caura L. Wood
本文探讨了石油地质学和金融学与艾伯塔省致密油前景的识别和鉴定之间的联系。本文追溯了一家处于清算边缘的创业型能源公司的企业历史，探讨了对赚钱或亏损至关重要的计算机构和地下资质形式。具体来说，它说明了金融化的地质学如何驾驭工业的沉积空间，通过使用大数据和测井等其他修复设备来绘制地下岩石的孔隙空间，以追求股东价值。本文借鉴科学和技术研究对金融模型表现性的观点，并将其与新兴的人类学对“资源物质性”的兴趣联系起来（Richardson 等，2014），本文从人种学角度阐述了金融如何塑造发现并将其格式化为金融框架，特别是“净现值”和“贴现未来现金流”的公式，这些公式构成了股东价值、公司利润和利润。 碳氢化合物期货。文章认为，需要更多的人类学关注这些公式及其虚构如何实现对未来碳氢化合物清算的财务路径依赖。
This article explores the entanglement of petroleum geology and finance with the identification and qualification of tight oil prospects in Alberta. Tracing the corporate history of an entrepreneurial energy corporation on the verge of liquidation, the article explores the calculative agencies and forms of subsurface qualification that matter to making or losing money. Specifically, it illustrates how a financialized geology navigates the sedimented spaces of industry, mapping the very pore spaces of subterranean rock by using big data and other prosthetic devices, such as well logs, in the pursuit of shareholder value. Drawing from science and technology studies perspectives on the performativity of financial models, and connecting those to the emerging anthropological interest in “resource materiality,” (Richardson et al. 2014) this article ethnographically foregrounds how finance shapes discoveries and formats them into the framework of finance, particularly the formulas of “net present value” and “discounted future cash flows,” which are constitutive of shareholder value, corporate profit, and hydrocarbon futures. The article argues that more anthropological attention needs to be given to how these formulas and their fictions work to materialize a financial path dependency on future hydrocarbon liquidation.