GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

Petroleum Technology Development Journal, previously published as Petroleum Training Journal, a bi-annual, is dedicated to research in petroleum technology, and promoting the understanding of training, learning and technology development in the petroleum sector. It provides an international forum for discussion and debate, stressing the critical importance of training, learning and technology development to the sector. The journal covers all aspects of petroleum technology development in the upstream, middle stream and downstream sectors of the industry. It also examines and discusses other petroleum industry challenges and matters, including host communities, corporate social responsibility and environment related issues.

Editorial Policy Guidelines for Authors

The Journal welcomes articles, case studies, notes, comments, and book reviews subject to the following guidelines:

1. Articles should illuminate petroleum technology development issues and challenges or issues currently faced by governments, companies and other stakeholders in the petroleum sector, setting them within their general training, learning and human capital development context. Of particular interest will be articles and case studies which record the actual experiences of the authors, as well as those from academics or consultants contributing the fruits of their research into larger issues of technology development, training, learning, human capital development, and general exploration and production related issues.

1.1 Specifically, articles should reflect issues in the following structured professional (core and support) disciplines in the value chain of the petroleum industry:

1.1.1 Core Disciplines (i.e. subsurface and surface engineering and health, safety and environment)

  • a) Geosciences: Hydrocarbon Systems, Geophysics, Operations Geology, Reservoir Systems, Geomatic engineering/Geospatial technology;
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  • b) Petroleum Engineering: Reservoir Engineering, Petrophysics, Production Technology;
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  • c) General Engineering: Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Instrumentation, Automation & Control,
  • Project Management, Cost, Subsea/Met ocean, Pipelines & Piping, Material & Corrosion, Process;
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  • d) Production Engineering: Process (operations) including Crude petroleum refining, Natural Gas processing, Petrochemicals etc.
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  • e) Maintenance – Mechanical, Maintenance – Electrical, Maintenance – Civil, Maintenance – Instrumentation, Automation & Control, Production Programming, Quality Control;
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  • f) Health, Safety & Environment: Occupational Health, Safety and Environment.
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1.1.2 Support Disciplines (i.e. people, finance, customers and services)

  • a) Human Resource: Attraction, Recruitment and Manpower Planning, Career and Performance Management, Learning and Development, Compensation and Benefits, Industrial and Employee Relations, Organizational Development;
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  • b) Finance: Accounts, Audit, Taxation, Insurance;
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  • c) Supply Chain Management: Procurement, Logistics, Warehousing, Contracting;
  • Project Management, Cost, Subsea/Met ocean, Pipelines & Piping, Material & Corrosion, Process;
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  • d) Medical: Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Radiography, Laboratory;
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  • e) Information Technology: Information systems, Telecommunications;
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  • f) Public Affairs: Government Relations, Public Relations, Media Relations, Community Relations, Communications;
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  • g) Commercial: Strategy and Planning, Competitive Intelligence, Mergers and Acquisition, Petroleum Economics, Marketing
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  • h) Legal: Legal: Transfer and acquisition of technology, Ownership, Leases, Exploration and Production, Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Contracting, Tax, Legislation.
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  • i) Security: Personnel, assets.
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2. Articles and case studies should not exceed 8,500 words in length. Exceptionally, where the nature of the topic warrants it, the Editorial Board will be prepared to consider longer articles and case studies. All articles and case studies should include a word count (including footnotes) on the title page.

3. The Editorial Board also welcomes the submission of shorter notes and comments of up to 3000 words on matters which are of interest to the journal’s readers but which do not lend themselves to full-length articles treatment.

4. The Editorial Board will not consider articles published or intended for publication elsewhere. Authors are expected to confirm that their articles have not been published and also, will not be published elsewhere.

5. The title and author of articles should be clearly indicated together with the brief personal details, postal and e-mail address that may be published with the article.

6. Authors of articles are asked to provide a brief head note or abstract of around 60 words describing the contents of their article.

7. All articles are refereed to ensure both accuracy and relevance. Authors may be asked to revise their articles before final acceptance. Authors should not submit plagiarized materials.

8. All materials for the journal must be in English. In special circumstance, articles written in any other language will be considered for translation and publication. Such articles when submitted to the Editorial Board, must be accompanied by a synopsis in English.

9. Footnotes rather than endnotes should be provided and numbered consecutively throughout the text with Arabic numerals. Authors are advised to refer to recent issues of the journal to see the format of articles, notes and comments.

10. The citation for the journal is e.g. (2015) Vol. 5 No. 2 PTDJ 25 (where 25 is the relevant page number)

11. All materials should be clearly typed, double-spaced, in Microsoft Word A4 paper format and submitted by email to editor@ptdjournal.com and admin@ptdjournal.com