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This standard specifies requirements for centrifugal pumps, including pumps running in reverse as hydraulic power recovery turbines (HPRTs), for use in petroleum, petrochemical, and gas industry process services. This standard is applicable to overhung pumps, between-bearings pumps, and vertically...
This standard gives general requirements for the determination and use of meteorological and oceanographic (metocean) conditions for the design, construction, and operation of offshore structures of all types used in the petroleum and natural gas industries. The requirements are divided into two...
This API standard specifies the requirements for a heavy-duty series of bolted bonnet steel globe valves for petroleum refinery and related applications where corrosion, erosion, and other service conditions would indicate a need for heavy wall sections and large stem diameters. This...
This recommended practice (RP) covers the inspection practices for fired boilers, process heaters, and furnaces used in petroleum refineries and petrochemical plants. The practices described in this document are focused to improve equipment reliability and plant safety. The intent is to provide...
General This recommended practice (RP) addresses the processes required to successfully implement PCSs for oil and gas production, refinery, and petrochemical services. The major topics addressed are listed below. - Part 1. The basic functions that a PCS may need to perform, and recommended...
This document provides guidance on information that is to be shared regarding onshore well construction and rig-specific operating guidelines. It is intended to align the lease operator's and drilling contractor's safety and environmental management systems (SEMS). The WCID is used to formalize the...
The JAS is an annual survey, published in December, that contains the only long-term source of information of detailed U.S. drilling expenditures on wells, and footage. An Analysis & Trends section provides detailed information and graphs about offshore and onshore wells, shale wells, coalbed...
Basic Petroleum Data Book provides historical domestic and world statistical background information, beginning in most instances with 1947. Included are data on energy, reserves, exploration and drilling, production, finance, prices, demand, refining, imports, exports, offshore transportation,...
Objective This standard provides procedures for the laboratory testing of both drilling fluid materials and drilling fluid physical, chemical, and performance properties. Conditions of Applicability This document is applicable to both water-based and non-aqueous drilling fluids, as well as the base...
This specification establishes minimum requirements for material, design, fabrication, erection, inspection, and marking of vertical, cylindrical, aboveground, unanchored, closed- and open-top, bolted storage tanks in standard sizes designed for the loads specified in Section 5. Purpose This...
This recommended practice (RP) is applicable to any pipeline system used to transport hazardous liquid or natural gas. This RP includes detailed technical discussion on dent formation, strain and fatigue, and failure modes and mechanisms. These details are provided to give pipeline operators the...
This practice describes general procedures and equipment for automatically obtaining samples of liquid petroleum and petroleum products, crude oils, and intermediate products from the sample point into the primary container. This practice also provides additional specific information about sample...
This standard specifies the minimum requirements for steam turbines for special-purpose applications for use in the petroleum, petrochemical, and gas industry services. It is not applicable to general purpose steam turbines, which are covered in API 611.
Purpose This API specification identifies requirements for the forging manufacturer qualification, production, marking, and documentation of open die shaped forgings for use in the petroleum and natural gas industries when referenced by an applicable equipment standard or otherwise specified...
This recommended practice (RP) provides guidance to the API authorized inspector on welding inspection as encountered with fabrication and repair of refinery and chemical plant equipment and piping, pipelines, and other related industries. This RP includes descriptions of common welding...
This standard applies to the sizing and selection of pressure-relief devices (PRDs) used in refineries, chemical facilities, and related industries for equipment that has a maximum allowable working pressure (MAWP) of 15 psig (103 kPag) or greater. The pressure-relief devices covered in this...
