Focus and Scope

e-journal of drilling engineering is concerned with fundamental and applied research, new technology, operations, and case studies in drilling engineering and well completion technology and operations.

It contains refereed international contributions on a broad spectrum of topics and provides the reader with informative articles, topical short papers and research reports.

This journal provides free and unrestricted access to its web-based contents on the principle that removing access barriers to literature gives readers extraordinary power to find and make use of relevant literature, and that it gives authors and their works vast and measurable new visibility, readership, and impact.

Section Policies

Research

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Reviews

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Case Study

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

We believe that access to quality information is of the utmost importance and so articles submitted and published in the Petoleum Journals Online will undergo strict peer review. In particular, we want to raise the quality of petroleum engineering information available online and to establish the journal as a prestigious means of publication.

We will strive to make the editorial process move as rapidly as possible. Once accepted in principle, each article will be refereed in two ways, on the academic content by a known specialist in the relevant field (a second 'content' referee may be called upon where the Editor deems it necessary) and on its www realization.

Where an article is being published jointly with a print publisher, Petoleum Journals Online would expect a single mutually agreeable referee to be appointed for both. Petoleum Journals Online's own referees are not paid and should not be expected to have to comment on texts that have not been checked for spelling, lack complete references etc.

Publication Frequency

To ensure that paper get published within 2 to 3 months of initial submission, individual technical papers on Petroleum Journals Online are published as soon as they are ready, by adding them to the "current" volume's Table of Contents. Special features such as editorials, columns, letters, comments and reviews, will also be published as soon as they are ready.

Author Self-Archiving

This journal permits and encourages authors to post items submitted to the journal on personal websites or institutional repositories both prior to and after publication, while providing bibliographic details that credit, if applicable, its publication in this journal.

Delayed Open Access

The contents of this journal will be available in an open access format 24 month(s) after an issue is published.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...