API Recommended Practice 16ST

Coiled Tubing Well Control Equipment Systems

This recommended practice (RP) addresses coiled tubing well control equipment assembly and operation as it relates to well control practices. Industry practices for performing well control operations using fluids for hydrostatic pressure balance are not addressed in this RP.

This document covers well control equipment assembly and operation used in coiled tubing intervention and coiled tubing drilling applications performed through:

—  christmas trees constructed in accordance with API 6A and/or API 11IW;

— a surface flow head or surface test tree constructed in accordance with API 6A;

—  drill pipe or workstrings with connections manufactured in accordance with API 7 and/or API 5CT.

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March 2009
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