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Connecting subsea production, floating facilities, processing, digital operations, integrity, sustainability, and society.
JOPTES
Journal of Offshore Production Technology and Society
The Journal of Offshore Production Technology and Society (JOPTES) is an international peer-reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to advancing fundamental and applied research in offshore production systems, subsea technologies, floating production facilities, production processing, flow assurance, asset integrity, digital operations, safety, sustainability, and the interaction between offshore technology and society.
JOPTES provides an interdisciplinary platform for offshore engineers, ocean engineers, petroleum engineers, naval architects, subsea specialists, production engineers, reliability professionals, digital-technology researchers, safety specialists, environmental researchers, social scientists, policymakers, and industry practitioners to communicate developments supporting safer, smarter, more reliable, lower-carbon, and socially responsible offshore production systems.
Develop efficient and reliable offshore production technologies.
Connect wells, subsea systems, floaters, topsides and export.
Improve production, uptime, energy use and lifecycle performance.
Strengthen safety, integrity, environment and human performance.
Advance lower-carbon and responsible offshore systems.
Journal Focus
Core scientific, technological, operational and societal areas covered by JOPTES
Offshore Production Systems
Integrated field development, production architecture, wells, risers, flowlines, processing systems, export systems, utilities, and production optimization.
Floating Production Facilities
FPSO, FLNG, FSO, semi-submersible, spar and other floating production concepts, topsides integration, station keeping, offloading, and marine systems.
Subsea Production & Processing
Subsea trees, manifolds, tiebacks, boosting, pumping, separation, compression, subsea power, controls, and all-electric systems.
Flow Assurance & Production Optimization
Multiphase flow, hydrate and wax management, slugging, thermal management, artificial lift, debottlenecking, production surveillance, and optimization.
Integrity, Reliability & Safety
Asset integrity, corrosion, fatigue, reliability, risk assessment, process safety, inspection, maintenance, life extension, and failure analysis.
Digital & Autonomous Operations
Digital twins, AI, machine learning, automation, robotics, remote operations, predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, and smart assets.
Low-Carbon Offshore Production
Electrification, emissions reduction, energy efficiency, CCUS, offshore renewable integration, methane management, and carbon-conscious operations.
Technology, People & Society
Human factors, safety culture, workforce transformation, governance, local content, social impacts, regulation, responsible innovation, and social licence.
From the Reservoir to the Offshore Production System
Modern offshore production is an integrated system. Production performance depends not only on the reservoir or well, but also on the interaction among subsea equipment, flowlines, risers, floating facilities, topsides processing, utilities, storage, offloading, control systems, logistics, maintenance, and human decision-making.
JOPTES therefore encourages research that examines offshore production from a system and lifecycle perspective, connecting engineering design with operation, reliability, digitalization, safety, economics, environmental performance, and societal implications.
Particular emphasis is placed on research demonstrating measurable improvements in production efficiency, system availability, operational reliability, safety, environmental performance, asset life, and responsible offshore development.
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Well-to-Export Offshore Production
JOPTES encourages research across the complete offshore production chain.
Completion, production, artificial lift, surveillance and intervention.
Trees, manifolds, controls, boosting, flowlines and tiebacks.
Production risers, dynamic systems, integrity and interfaces.
Hull, mooring, topsides, utilities, storage and marine systems.
Separation, compression, treatment, utilities and production optimization.
Pipelines, tankers, offloading, logistics, and product delivery.
Subsea to Floating Production Integration
JOPTES promotes research that evaluates interfaces among subsea systems, risers, floating facilities, topsides processing, marine systems and operations as a single integrated production architecture.
Smarter, Connected and Increasingly Autonomous Assets
JOPTES welcomes research integrating offshore production with artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital twins, Industrial Internet of Things, robotics, advanced analytics, remote operations, real-time optimization, and predictive maintenance.
Reliability, Integrity and Safety
Sustaining offshore production throughout the asset lifecycle
Structural, piping, pressure-system, subsea, riser and equipment integrity.
RAM analysis, failure modelling, redundancy and availability.
Process safety, operational risk, HAZID, HAZOP, FMEA, QRA and barrier management.
NDT, sensors, corrosion monitoring, condition assessment and structural health monitoring.
Reliability-centred maintenance, predictive maintenance and maintenance optimization.
Aging assets, remaining life, reassessment and brownfield modification.
Lower Carbon, More Efficient and Transition-Ready
The offshore production sector is evolving toward reduced emissions, increased electrification, automated operations, carbon management, repurposing and more efficient lifecycle engineering.
Offshore Technology Beyond Engineering Performance
The word Society reflects JOPTES' commitment to research examining how offshore production technologies interact with people, organizations, communities, regulators, environments, and the broader energy system.
The journal encourages interdisciplinary studies linking engineering with human factors, safety culture, workforce transformation, organizational decision-making, governance, local content, socioeconomic impacts, environmental responsibility, stakeholder engagement, and energy-transition policy.
Research We Welcome
Laboratory, pilot-scale and field-based offshore-production research.
CFD, FEA, multiphysics, process simulation and system modelling.
PRA, RAM, FMEA, HAZOP, QRA and uncertainty analysis.
AI, machine learning, digital twins, optimization and analytics.
Field data, operational experience, failure analysis and technology deployment.
Human factors, governance, policy, organizational systems and social dimensions.
Concept to Decommissioning
Field architecture, feasibility and concept selection.
Engineering, integration and verification.
Fabrication, transportation, installation and commissioning.
Operations, optimization and production management.
Inspection, maintenance, reliability and life extension.
Repurposing, decommissioning and responsible closure.
Engineering Offshore Production Responsibly
JOPTES prioritizes research combining technological innovation with operational relevance, safety, environmental responsibility, and societal value.
Advance Offshore Production Technology and Society
JOPTES welcomes original research, review articles, technical studies, numerical and experimental investigations, industrial case studies, and interdisciplinary contributions advancing offshore production systems and their interaction with society.
