scope:

This International Standard provides requirements and guidelines for completion accessories, as defined herein, for use in the petroleum and natural gas industry. This International Standard provides requirements for the functional specification and technical specifications, including design, design verification and validation, materials, documentation and data control, quality requirements, redress, repair, shipment, and storage. This International Standard covers the pressure-containing, nonpressure-containing, load-bearing, disconnect/reconnect, tubing-movement, and opening-a-port functionalities of completion accessories.

Products covered under another API or international specification are not included. Also not included are other products such as liner/tubing hangers, downhole well test tools, inflow control devices, surface-controlled downhole chokes, downhole artificial lift equipment, control lines and fittings, and all functionalities relating to electronics or fiber optics. This International Standard does not cover the connections to the well conduit. Installation, application, and operation of these products are outside the scope of this International Standard.