API PUBL 2564
Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards Chapter 15 – Section 2 Conversion of Operational and Process Measurement Units to the Metric (SI) System
| Organization: | API |
| Publication Date: | 1 March 1974 |
| Status: | inactive |
| Page Count: | 64 |
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SCOPE AND FIELD OF APPLICATION
This publication presents a brief background report on the
development of the International System (SI) and its legal status
inside and outside the United States. It explains the purpose and
the use of tables developed specifically to facilitate petroleum
industry data manipulation. These tables show the officially
recommended SI units of weights and measures along with factors for
converting to SI from corresponding customary units. Three
customary systems were included-the foot-pound-second, the
centimeter-gram-seco
The purpose of this publication is threefold:
-To supplement the user's basic knowledge of the SI system with information especially tailored to fit the operating needs of the petroleum industry;
-To alert users to the fact that the American Petroleum Institute and its member companies envision having to do an ever-increasing proportion of their business in the SI system in the years ahead;
-To encourage commonality of SI nomenclature and to facilitate conversions of industry standards and data by providing simplified tables for this purpose.
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