The editorial team of drillingfluidadditives.com answers one email address, editorial@drillingfluidadditives.com, for corrections, source suggestions and citation requests.
The site is a reference on drilling fluids and their additives, compiled from named primary sources such as standards, regulations and peer-reviewed papers. Quote and service requests use separate request tools described below.
How to Contact the Editorial Team#
Write to editorial@drillingfluidadditives.com or use the contact form on this page; both reach the same editorial team.
The form asks for a reason, a message and a return email address. The page URL and the source are optional fields. A message that names the page URL and the exact statement in question can be checked without a return question. A company email address is the right return address when a reply is wanted.
The site is published by its editorial team, not by a named person. Who publishes the site and how it is funded is described in about DrillingFluidAdditives.com.
Write to the editorial team
What Can You Send the Editorial Team?#
Four kinds of message reach the editorial team: error reports, source suggestions, press and citation requests, and notices of a new standard edition or rule.
- Error reports: a figure, unit, edition or section that differs from its source.
- Source suggestions: a standard, regulation, peer-reviewed or AADE/SPE paper, or USGS dataset that the pages do not cite.
- Press and citation requests: how to cite a page, answered under the press heading below.
- Notices of a revision: a new edition of an API or ISO document, or an amended section of a regulation.
How to Report an Error in a Figure, Standard Edition or Rule#
An error report is checked against the document of the issuing body, the standard, the regulation or the paper, not against another website.
A report needs the five details in the numbered list below.
- Give the page URL.
- Quote the sentence or table cell.
- Name the source with its edition and year or its section, for example 40 CFR 435.13 for a US offshore discharge rule.
- State the value the source gives, with its unit.
- Add a link or a DOI where the source is public.
A supplier data sheet is accepted as the source of one named product's value, never as evidence against a standard.
Confirmed errors are corrected as set out in the editorial policy on corrections.
What the Contact Channel Does Not Handle#
The editorial team sells no product, takes no payment to list or rank a company, and recommends no supplier or service company.
Sponsored articles, paid listings and link requests are declined. The site publishes no job or training listings. It gives no well-control or emergency advice for a live well, which belongs to the operator's own procedure.
How Messages Sent Here Are Kept (Contextual Border)#
Messages and contact-form data are kept for 24 months and then deleted.
The site uses no analytics or advertising vendors, so contact-form data goes to no third party for tracking. The full list of data the site handles is in the privacy policy.
Supplier quote and service requests#
Quote and service requests do not go through the editorial inbox; they use their own request tools.
Send one specification to independent suppliers of drilling fluid materials. request supplier quotes
Requests for mud engineering support go to the service-match form of the request tools. Suppliers and service providers are not chosen or named by the editorial team.
Press, citation and source suggestions#
Cite a page by its title, its URL and the date it was last updated, with Drilling Fluid Additives Editorial Team as the author.
A source suggestion names the issuing body, for example API, ISO, EPA and eCFR, OSPAR, Cefas, Miljodirektoratet, ECHA, USGS or IADC, or a peer-reviewed or AADE/SPE paper. The bodies behind the drilling fluid standards and rules on this site are the first candidates.