American Petroleum Instltute (API) Fourth Edition, June 1999. 104p. This document recommends minimum requirements and guidelines for the design and installation of electrical systems on fixed and floating petroleum facilities located offshore
American Petroleum Instltute (API) First Edition, September 2006. 127p. This document recommends minimum requirements and guidelines for the design and installation of electrical systems on fixed and floating petroleum facilities located offshore when hazardous locations are classified as Zone 0, Zone 1, or Zone 2.
American Petroleum Institute (API). Draft. Second Edition. April 2011. 174p. This document recommends minimum requirements and guidelines for the design, installation, and maintenance of electrical systems on fixed and floating petroleum facilities located offshore. For facilities classified as Division 1 or Division 2, reference API RP 14F, Recommended Practice for Design,...
API RP 14G:2007 Recommended Practice for Fire Prevention and Control on Fixed Open-type Offshore Production Platforms
American Petroleum Institute (API). Fourth Edition. April 2007. 46 p. This publication presents recommendations for minimizing the likelihood of having an accidental fire, and for designing, inspecting, and maintaining fire control systems. It emphasizes the need...
American Petroleum Instltute (API) Third Edition, December 1993. 39p. This RP presents recommendations for minimizing the likelihood of having an accidental fire, and for designing, inspecting, and maintaining fire control systems. It emphasizes the need to train personnel in fire fighting, to conduct routine drills, and to establish methods and procedures for safe evacuation.
An American National Standard. American Petroleum Institute (API). Second Edition , July 2006. 254p. This standard gives requirements and recommendations for the design, analysis, materials, fabrication, testing and operation of subsea completion/workover (C/WO) riser systems run from a floating vessel. It is applicable to all new C/WO riser systems and may be applied to...
American Petroleum Institute (API). First Edition, October 2009. Addendum 1, 2012. 52p. This recommended practice (RP) addresses the requirements for the use of high integrity pressure protection systems (HIPPS) for subsea applications. API 14C, IEC 61508, and IEC 61511 specify the requirements for onshore, topsides, and subsea safety instrumented systems (SIS’s) and are...
American Petroleum Institute (API). Second Edition. 43 p. This document provides standard testing procedures for evaluating proppants used in hydraulic fracturing and gravel-packing operations. NOTE: Proppants mentioned henceforth in this document refer to sand, ceramic media, resin-coated proppants, gravelpacking media and other materials used for hydraulic fracturing and...
American Petroleum Institute (API). Draft #12, January 15, 2011. 175 p. This API Recommended Practice covers the application of dynamic simulation for gas-lift wells and systems. Dynamic simulation is an important tool to assist in the design, operation, surveillance, troubleshooting, and diagnosis of gas-lift processes. Most gas-lift design and diagnosis programs have used...
American Petroleum Institute (API). Draft #5, July 3, 2010. 62 p. This publication is intended to provide recommended practices for the use of gas-lift automation to enhance the functionality and profitability of gas-lift operations for the production of oil and gas. The scope of this document addresses the following topics: Production automation definition. Overview of...
An American National Standard, American Petroleum Institute (API). Draft. First Edition. 57p. This standard is considered identical to the English version of ISO 17078-4:2010. This part of ISO 17078 provides informative documentation to assist the user/purchaser and the supplier/manufacturer in specification, design, selection, testing, calibration, reconditioning, installation...
American Petroleum Institute (API) Fourth Edition, September 1995. 23p. This publication covers the safety aspects to be considered when hot tapping, or when welding without hot tapping on in-service piping or equipment. It is not a substitute for job planning. A detailed, written procedure for hot tapping and welding should be prepared or reviewed before starting each job to...
American Petroleum Institute (API). Third Edition. January 2005. 40 p. The scope of this recommended practice is specifically limited to tanks associated with marketing. refining, pipeline and sinlilar facilities containing Class I or Class II petroleum liquids.
American Petroleum Instltute (API) Twenty-First Edition, December 2000, Errata and Supplement 1, December 2002. — 242 p. This publication serves as a guide for those who are concerned with the design and construction of new platforms and for the relocation of existing platforms used for the drilling, development, and storage of hydrocarbons in offshore areas. API publications...
An American National Standard, American Petroleum Institute (API). Twenty-Second Edition. 200X. 324p. This publication serves as a guide for those who are concerned with the design and construction of new fixed offshore platforms and for the relocation of existing platforms used for the drilling, development, production, and storage of hydrocarbons in offshore areas. In addition,...
American Petroleum Institute (API). Fifth Edition. 2012. 64p. This Standard specifies a standard procedure for assessing and modifying the performance of solids control equipment systems commonly used in the field in petroleum and natural gas drilling fluids processing
American Petroleum Institute (API) Fifth Edition, June 2003. 54p. This Recommended Practice is intended to serve as a guide to crane owners and operators in developing operating and maintenance practices and procedures for use in the safe operation of pedestal-mounted revolving cranes on fixed or oating offshore platforms, jackup drilling rigs, semisubmersible drilling rigs and...
American Petroleum Institute (API) First Edition, April 2002. 76p. This document provides guidelines and recommended practice for the satisfactory design of offshore structures against fire and blast loading.
American Petroleum Institute (API) First Edition, March 2001. 99p. This Recommended Practice (RP) provides guidelines for design, fabrication, installation, inspection and operation of Floating Production Systems (FPSs).
An American National Standard, American Petroleum Institute (API). Draft. Second Edition. Ballot 2 – December 2010. 227p. This standard provides requirements and guidance for the structural design and/or assessment of floating offshore platforms used by the petroleum and natural gas industries to support the following functions: - production; - storage and/or offloading; -...
American Petroleum Institute (API). Fourth Edition. May 1996. Reaffirmed, March 2006. 24p. This recommended practice provides a guide for planning, designing, and constructing heliports for fixed offshore platforms. It includes operational consideration guidelines, design load criteria, heliport size, marking recommendations, and other heliport design recommendations.
American Petroleum Institute (API). Second Edition, 201X. 89p. This Standard addresses riser systems that are part of a floating production system (FPS). Guidelines for design, construction, installation, operation and maintenance of floating production systems (FPSs) are in API 2FPS. A riser is a subsystem in a floating production system
American Petroleum Institute (API). Third Edition, October 2005. 190p. The purpose of these recommended practices is to present a rational method for analyzing, designing or evaluating station-keeping systems used for floating units. This method provides a uniform analysis tool which, when combined with an under-standard of the environment at a particular location, the...
American Petroleum Institute (API) Second Edition, February 1998. 236p. Core analysis, like other technical areas, is continually evolving so that both methodology and costs are changing. The recommended practices provided here represent a snap shot in time of the consensus advice of a large international committee.
American Petroleum Institute (API) Third Edition, May 2001, Reaffirmed March 2007. 42p. Recommendations set forth in this publication apply to oil and gas well drilling and servicing operations involving hydrogen sulfide. These operations include well drilling, completion, servicing, workover, downhole maintenance, and plug and abandonment procedures conducted with hydrogen...
American Petroleum Instiltute (API) Second Edition, November 1997. 119p. The purpose of this recommended practice is to provides guidelines for classifying locations Class I, Division 1 and Class 1 Division 2 at petroleum facilities for the selection and installation of electrical equipment Basic definitions given in the 1996 edition of NFPA 70, the National Electrical Code (NEC),...
American Petroleum Instltute (API). Third Edition, Draft. 12.09.2008 – Ballot 2. 175p. The purpose of this recommended practice (RP) is to provide guidelines for classifying locations Class I, Division 1 and Class I, Division 2 at petroleum facilities for the selection and installation of electrical equipment. Basic definitions given in the 2008 Edition of NFPA 70, National...
American Petroleum Institute (API) First Edition, November 1997. Reaffirmed 11/2002. 144 p. The purpose of this recommended practice is to provides guidelines for classifying locations Class I, Zone 0, Zone 1, and Zone 2 locations at petroleum facilities for the selection and installation of electrical equipment.
American Petroleum Institute (API) First Edition, November 1997. 141p. The purpose of this recommended practice is to provides guidelines for classifying locations Class I, Zone 0, Zone 1, and Zone 2 locations at petroleum facilities for the selection and installation of electrical equipment.
American Petroleum Institute (API). First Edition. July 2009. 42 p. This standard provides environmentally sound practices for domestic onshore oil and gas production operations. It is intended to be applicable to contractors as well as operators. Facilities within the scope of this document include all production facilities, including produced water handling facilities. Offshore...
American Petroleum Instltute (API) Seventh Edition, January 2000. 100p. This recommended practice applies to the sizing and selection of pressure relief devices used in refineries and related industries for equipment that has a maximum allowable working pressure of 15 psig [103 kPag] or greater.
American Petroleum Instltute (API) Fifth Edition, August 2003. 42p. This recommended practice covers methods of installation for pressure-relief devices for equipment that has a maximum allowable working pressure (MAWP) of 15 psig (1.03 bar g or 103 kPA) or greater
American Petroleum Instltute (API) Sixth Edition, Draft. 3.07.2013 – Ballot 2. 74p. This Standard covers methods of installation for pressure relief devices for equipment that has a maximum allowable working pressure (MAWP) of 15 psig (1.03 bar g or 103 kPA) or greater. Pressure relief valves or rupture disks may be used independently or in combination with each other to provide...
American Petroleum Institute (API) Third Edition, August 1999, Reaffirmed March 2007. 50p. These recommendations apply to rotary drilling rigs, well servicing rigs, and special services as they relate to operations on location.
American Petroleum Instltute (API) First Edition, May 1991. 68p. The procedures for installation of the instruments covered in this recommended practice are based on experience with and evaluation of many installations.
American Petroleum Institute (API). First Edition, October 1994. 49p. This document reviews the recommended practices for the installation of electronic and pneumatic measurement and control-signal transmission systems. These methods are based on the assumption that the field devices, such as measuring transmitters, transducers, valve positioners, control valves, and other devices...
American Petroleum Institute (API) Second Edition, November 2010. 114p. This Recommended Practice addresses the special needs of valves and their accessories in control and safety instrumented system (SIS) applications for refinery services. The knowledge and experience of the industry has been captured to provide proven solutions to well-known problems
American Petroleum Institute (API). First Edition, September 1995. 69p. This recommended practice covers the performance requirements and considerations for the selection, specification, installation, and testing of process instrumentation and control systems. Control centers as used in the petroleum industry are also covered. This practice is not intended to be used as a...
American Petroleum Instltute (API) Second Edition, November 2001. 246p. Process monitors that measure and transmit information about chemical composition, physical properties, or chemical properties are known as process analyzer systems. Many of these systems were first developed for laboratory analysis. Today they are primarily used as continuous on-line analyzers.
American Petroleum Institute (API). First Edition, December 2000. 39p. This recommended practice describes commonly used practices for the opportunity identification, justification, project management, implementation and maintenance of advanced control system applications in refinery services. This practice is not intended to spec@ the use or selection of any particular technique...
American Petroleum Instltute (API) Second Edition. April 2011. 372 p. This recommended practice provides general guidance as to the most likely damage mechanisms affecting common alloys used in the refining and petrochemical industry and is intended to introduce the concepts of service-induced deterioration and failure modes. These guidelines provide information that can be...
American Petroleum Institute (API) Second Edition, February 2003. 84p. This recommended practice covers the inspection practices for fired boilers and process heaters (furnaces) used in petroleum refineries and petrochemical plants.
American Petroleum Institute (API). Draft. Third Edition. Third Ballot—Closes 03/02/2011. 103p. This recommended practice covers the inspection practices for fired boilers and process heaters (furnaces) used in petroleum refineries and petrochemical plants. The practices described in this document are focused to improve equipment reliability and plant safety by describing the...
American Petroleum Institute (API). Second Edition, December 2000. 58p. This recommended practice describes the inspection and repair practices for automatic pressure-relieving devices commonly used in the oil and petrochemical industries. As a guide to the inspection and repair of these devices in the user's plant, it is intended to ensure their proper performance. This...
American Petroleum Institute (API). Draft Second Edition, Third Ballot-Closes 03/25/2011. 149p. This recommended practice provides guidance to the API authorized inspector on welding inspection as encountered with fabrication and repair of refinery and chemical plant equipment and piping. This recommended practice includes descriptions of common welding processes, welding...
American Petroleum Instltute (API) First Edition, May 2002. 60p. The purpose of this document is to provide users with the basic elements for developing and implementing a risk-based inspection (RBI) program. The methodology is presented in a step-by-step manner to the maximum extent practicable. Although the risk management principles and concepts that RBI is built on are...
American Petroleum Instltute (API) Second Edition, September 2008. 654p. This publication provides quantitative procedures to establish an inspection program using risk-based methods for pressurized fixed equipment, including pressure vessel, piping, tankage, pressure relief devices, and heat exchanger tube bundles. This document is to be used in conjunction with API 580, which...
American Petroleum Instltute (API) Second Edition, December 2009. 38 p. This Standard provides supplementary guidelines and practices for welding and welding related topics for shop and field fabrication, repair and modification of the following: a) pressure-containing equipment such as pressure vessels, heat exchangers, piping, heater tubes, and pressure boundaries of rotating...
American Petroleum Instltute (API) Second Edition, May 2006. 106p. The purpose of these recommended practices is to provide information that can serve as a voluntary industry guide for safe well control operations. This publication is designed to serve as a direct field aid in well control and as a technical source for teaching well control principles.
American Petroleum Institute (API). Sixth Edition, July 2002 . 16 p. The recommendations provided herein apply to the transportation on railcars of API Specification 5L steel line pipe in sizes 23/8 and larger in lengths longer that single random. The recommendations of Section 4 concerned with load stresses are exclusively applicable to API line pipe having diameter to thickness...