Paperlab Field Development Timeline

Skill: PaperLab Field Development Timeline

Purpose

Create compact teaching timelines for field-development books. Use this when case studies, NCS regulatory steps, PDO decisions, project gates, or CCS value chain milestones need to be placed in chronological context.

Inputs

• Case-study chapter text.
• Project milestone lists or tables.
• Regulatory dates, licence awards, PDO submission/approval dates, startup dates, and major modification dates.
• Optional source-document metadata from source_manifest.json.

Workflow

1. Extract events as title, date, case, phase, and source.
2. Normalize dates to ISO YYYY-MM-DD; use year-only dates only when the source is genuinely coarse.
3. Group events by lifecycle phase: discovery, appraisal, concept select, FEED, PDO, execution, startup, operations, late life, and decommissioning.
4. Generate an offline HTML timeline or a Markdown table for the chapter.
5. Link timeline events back to case-study sections and source documents.

Output

• field_development_timeline.json
• Optional field_development_timeline.html
• Optional chapter-ready Markdown event table.

Safety Rules

• Do not invent exact dates from approximate source text.
• Keep public timelines to public or approved case-study information.
• Use timelines as teaching aids, not as authoritative project records unless the source is cited and verified.