Authors are invited to submit original and high-quality scholarly manuscripts to Journal of Offshore Production Technology and Society (JOPTES). Manuscripts should demonstrate a clear contribution to offshore production systems, subsea technologies, digital operations, asset integrity, reliability, safety, sustainability, or the societal and governance dimensions of offshore energy development.
Manuscripts must present original scholarly work that has not been published previously and is not simultaneously under consideration by another journal.
Submissions should demonstrate a substantive contribution to one or more of the journal's core areas: Offshore Production Systems and Operations, Subsea, Digital and Emerging Production Technologies, Asset Integrity, Reliability, Safety and Risk, or Offshore Energy, Sustainability and Society.
Purely generic studies in structural mechanics, hydrodynamics, materials science, artificial intelligence, robotics, or renewable-energy technology should clearly demonstrate their relevance to offshore production facilities, production operations, subsea systems, asset integrity, reliability, safety, or offshore energy systems.
JOPTES applies a double-anonymous peer review process. Manuscripts submitted for review must not contain author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, institutional identifiers, company identifiers where avoidable, or other information that directly identifies the authors.
Full author names, affiliations, countries, email addresses, and ORCID identifiers should be entered separately in the OJS metadata.
Manuscripts should be submitted in an editable word-processing format and should follow the official journal template where available.
The title should be concise, technically informative, and accurately reflect the offshore production, subsea, integrity, safety, digital, sustainability, or governance issue investigated.
Complete author metadata must be entered through OJS, including full name, institutional affiliation, country, email address, and ORCID identifier where available.
The abstract should normally contain approximately 150–250 words and summarize the research problem, objective, methods, principal findings, and major engineering, operational, safety, environmental, or policy implications.
Authors should provide 3–6 keywords that accurately represent the principal offshore, subsea, engineering, digital, reliability, safety, or sustainability concepts of the study.
The Introduction should establish the engineering, operational, technological, safety, environmental, or policy context of the study; define the research problem; identify the knowledge or technology gap; state the research objectives or questions; and clearly explain the novelty and significance of the work for offshore production systems.
Authors should critically engage with relevant national and international scientific literature rather than merely describing previous studies.
Where relevant, the manuscript should explain engineering theories, numerical models, reliability frameworks, risk models, process concepts, digital architectures, integrity-management approaches, or regulatory standards used in the study.
The technical background should establish the current state of knowledge and clearly identify how the study advances offshore production technology, operations, integrity, safety, or sustainability.
The Methods section should provide sufficient detail to allow readers to understand, evaluate, and where appropriate reproduce the research.
Authors should clearly describe the research design, facility or system studied, datasets, experimental configuration, numerical methods, model assumptions, boundary conditions, parameters, software, instruments, and analytical procedures where relevant.
Results should be presented clearly and should correspond directly to the research objectives, questions, or hypotheses.
Quantitative results should include appropriate engineering, statistical, reliability, risk, performance, or uncertainty measures where relevant.
Simulation and model-based results should be distinguished from field measurements, experimental observations, or validated operational data.
The Discussion should interpret findings in relation to offshore production performance, integrity, reliability, safety, operational efficiency, environmental responsibility, sustainability, or governance and clearly explain the contribution to existing knowledge.
The Conclusion should directly reflect the principal findings and clearly state their scholarly, engineering, operational, safety, sustainability, managerial, or policy significance.
Recommendations for offshore operators, engineers, regulators, technology developers, asset managers, or policymakers should be supported by the evidence presented in the manuscript.
Study limitations, applicability boundaries, major uncertainties, and directions for future research should be stated where appropriate.
Authors should provide the following information where applicable:
Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, authenticity, originality, technical validity, ethical compliance, and interpretation of all submitted research materials.
Research involving operational records, production histories, sensor data, inspection records, failure databases, process data, digital twins, offshore workers, or commercially sensitive information should comply with applicable confidentiality, ethical, legal, and institutional requirements.
Artificial intelligence systems and generative AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Substantive AI use in writing, coding, predictive analytics, optimization, image processing, inspection analysis, risk modeling, translation, or literature synthesis should be disclosed where relevant.
Tables, figures, schematics, process diagrams, risk matrices, reliability plots, digital-twin architectures, simulation outputs, inspection images, and other technical materials should be clearly numbered, titled, and cited in the manuscript text.
Units, symbols, abbreviations, coordinate systems, scales, legends, and engineering parameters should be clearly defined.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that technical drawings, facility images, company information, maps, and reproduced materials comply with copyright, confidentiality, and permission requirements.
References should be relevant, scientifically credible, and sufficient to establish the current state of knowledge.
Authors are encouraged to engage with recent peer-reviewed international literature together with appropriate foundational research.
Relevant offshore engineering standards, recommended practices, classification rules, international regulations, and technical guidance may be cited where appropriate.
Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) should be provided whenever available. References suggested or generated by AI systems must be independently verified.
Citation manipulation, fabricated references, unnecessary self-citation, or irrelevant citation practices are not acceptable. Reference formatting should follow the official journal template.
Manuscripts first undergo editorial screening for scope, originality, scholarly contribution, technical validity, methodological quality, ethical compliance, and adherence to submission requirements.
Manuscripts that pass screening may proceed to double-anonymous peer review by at least two independent reviewers.
Authors receiving a revision decision should respond point-by-point to reviewer and editor comments and clearly identify changes made in the revised manuscript.
Submission of a revised manuscript does not guarantee acceptance. Final publication decisions remain the responsibility of the editorial team.
Following acceptance, manuscripts may undergo copyediting, technical and metadata verification, reference checking, layout preparation, proofreading, and other production procedures before publication.
