... Abstract The paper describes a joint industry project (JIP) conducted to provide an independent review of the current Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) regulations and the American Petroleum Institute (API) standards (including their historical development). The main...

... were discussed against inspection requirements of two internationally adopted AST inspection codes, namely, American Petroleum Institute API standards 653 and Equipment Engineering Material Users Association EEMUA Publication No. 159. Key words: AST Bottom Integrity, Cathodic Protection (CP), AST...

... ABSTRACT For many years, American Petroleum Institute (API) standards have been accepted worldwide as de facto international standards. As worldwide economic activity increased in recent years, however, national governments have sought a greater say in standards development, either through...

.... The p-y curves for piles in sand described by Reese et al. (1974) and O Neill and Murchison (1983) led to recommendations in the American Petroleum Institute (API) standards for oil and gas installations (2011). In 2004 these recommendations were adopted in the Det Norske Veritas (DNV) standard (2004...

... to establish high confidence that the operator's assets and businesses are safe, sustainable, and dependable. The oil and gas industry uses applicable American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) standards, American Petroleum Institute (API) standards, operator's functional specification, and Bureau...

... accommodate new oil and gas discoveries that impose higher pressures and higher temperatures than the applicable American Petroleum Institute (API) standards can address. For many reasons, including safety, these high pressure and high temperature (HPHT) discoveries (>15,000 psi, >250°F) cannot...

.... Abstract It is critically important for elastomer sealing components in blowout preventers (BOP) and wellheads to meet the pressure and temperature rating requirements under the newly released American Petroleum Institute (API) standards, API 16A (fourth edition) and API 6A (twenty-first edition...

... ABSTRACT Several American Petroleum Institute (API) Standards and Recommended Practices speak directly to the basic need to control corrosion of the bottom, shell, and roof of aboveground storage tanks (ASTs) to assure tank integrity. These documents contain information and requirements...

...)/ American Petroleum Institute (API) standards for well barrier elements such as drill pipe, BOP, packers and bridge plugs, subsurface safety valves, casing and tubing connections, gas lift equipment, and cement can be improved in relation to long-term integrity testing, the test temperature and the test...

... by American Petroleum Institute (API) standards are used for drilling fluid property measurements. However, these methods are sporadic, labor-intensive and the data quality is highly dependent on the practicing engineer. These dated methods need to be replaced and improved by an automated, continuous...

... Facility (FTF) was developed in order to test offshore equipment. Offshore valves and connectors on rigs must be certified to withstand sustained fire conditions per American Petroleum Institute (API) standards 6FA/B/C. The requirements include surviving fire temperatures up to 1800 F for a period of 30...

... operators have been developing and implementing various types of operations and maintenance solutions in the past under various sub codes, standards or in-house practices. Today, the American Petroleum Institute (API) Standard 1160 on Managing System Integrity for Hazardous Liquid Pipelines,[2...

... by current American Petroleum Institute (API) standards. In this study, we introduce an automated viscosity/density measurement system based on an electromechanical tuning fork resonator. The system allows for continuous measurements as fast as several times per second in a compact footprint, allowing...

... INTRODUCTION ABSTRACT: American Petroleum Institute (API) standard 16C, Choke and Kill System, requires that peripheral lines (P-lines) meet the hardness requirements of NACE(1) MR0175/ISO15156-2. This means a maximum hardness of 22HRC for low alloy steels. Further, NACE MR0175/ISO15156-2...

... pipeline with established susceptibility to near-neutral pH SCC. The composition and mechanical properties of the steel are shown in Tables 1 and 2, together with the specifications in American Petroleum Institute (API) Standard 5L for X-65 line pipe steel. The testing was performed in actual soil...

..., 1997 ). Due to the invaluable nature of this clay and the anticipated supply shortages emanating from the rising demand, many laboratory studies have been directed towards the search for local bentonitic clay deposits which can be enhanced to the American Petroleum Institute (API) standard...