Fact-Checking Policy

This site makes statements about a regulated industry, and getting one wrong could lead somebody to a bad decision. This is how we try not to.

What gets checked, and how

• Regulatory statements are checked against the current text of the directive or regulation, not against a summary. The guide names the source so a reader can do the same.
• Numbers, thresholds and intervals are taken from the source document every time, never quoted from memory or carried forward from a previous draft without re-checking.
• Technical claims about water chemistry, equipment behaviour or formation response are checked against technical references and against operational experience.
• Field practice claims are flagged as practice, not requirement, and we say when practice varies.

The standing caveat

Every regulatory page on this site says, in terms, that you should verify the requirement against the current directive before relying on it. We mean that literally. Directives are revised, bulletins are issued between revisions, and a page reviewed three months ago may be describing a superseded requirement. A reference site cannot responsibly claim otherwise.

Reporting an error

Write to us through the contact page. It helps a great deal if you say which page, which sentence, and what you believe the correct position is. For a regulatory correction, pointing us at the directive and section is the single most useful thing you can include.

What happens next

1. We acknowledge, normally within three business days.
2. We check the claim against the primary source.
3. If you are right, we correct the page, move the reviewed date, and note the change on the page where it is substantive.
4. If the position is genuinely unclear, we rewrite to reflect the uncertainty rather than leaving a confident statement standing.

Corrections we will not make

We will not remove an accurate description of a requirement because it is inconvenient, and we will not add a claim about a named company's conduct. We also will not turn a general explanation into advice about a specific operation, however reasonable the request.