Petroleum Research
Last updated ISSN 2096-2495
Petroleum Research is published by Elsevier BV in engineering. It is open access. There is no article processing charge.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Petroleum Research concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
- Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
- Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
- Drilling and Well Engineering
- Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
- Petroleum Processing and Analysis
- Geological Studies and Exploration
- Geological and Geophysical Studies
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Oil and Gas Production Techniques
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2096-2495, 2524-1729 |
| Subject area | Engineering |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | None |
| Indexed in | Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 541 |
| Publishing since | 2016 |
| Journal website | www.sciencedirect.com/journal/petroleum-research |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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