scope:

This specification provides general principles and specifies requirements for design, manufacture, and testing of new drilling and well-servicing equipment and of replacement primary load-carrying components manufactured subsequent to the publication of this specification.

This specification is applicable to the following equipment:

a) rotary tables;

a) rotary bushings;

b) high-pressure mud and cement hoses;

c) piston mud-pump components;

d) drawworks components;

e) manual tongs;

f) safety clamps not used as hoisting devices;

g) blowout preventer (BOP) handling systems;

h) pressure-relieving devices for high-pressure drilling fluid circulating systems;

i) snub lines for manual and power tongs;

j) rotary slips, both manual and powered;

k) slip bowls; and

l) spiders, both manual and powered