Standards News Highlights
API Specification 5L, 46th Edition
We are pleased to announce the publication of the 46th edition of Specification 5L, Line Pipe. This new edition provides technical updates that have reached consensus within API’s Subcommittee on Tubular Goods and will now give industry consistent practices in these respective areas of the standard. These updates are reflective of API’s standards program mission to provide a forum for development of consensus-based industry standards, and technical cooperation to improve the industry’s safety performance and competitiveness.
API Standard 20T
API has published API Standard 20T Additively Manufactured Polymer-Based Components for Use in the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries. This first edition standard specifies requirements for qualification in the manufacturing process, production, marking and documentation of 3D printing polymer-based components used in the industry.
API Standard 510
API Standard 510 - Pressure Vessel Inspection Code: In-service Inspection, Rating, Repair, and Alteration, 11th edition, has been published. Using learnings from industry application, the 11th edition will help owner-operators prevent future HSE and reliability incidents. The update includes the addition of a detailed section for the analysis of inspection results.
API Standard 521
API Standard 521, Pressure-Relieving and Depressurizing Systems, provides guidance, recommendations, and alternatives for the design of pressure-relieving and vapor de-pressuring systems at liquefied natural gas terminals, petrochemical facilities, gas plants, and other petroleum production facilities.
API Standard 650, 13th Ed.
API Standard 650, Welded Tanks for Oil Storage, Thirteenth Edition, has been published to ensure the safety, sustainability, and environmental performance of oil storage tanks. The updated standard will help continue operational excellence and trust between operators and manufacturers.
API Standard 2350, 5th Ed.
API Standard 2350, 5th Edition, Overfill Prevention for Storage Tanks in Petroleum Facilities helps owners and operators of oil storage tanks implement a comprehensive overfill prevention system which ensures that oil and other petroleum products are safely transferred to storage tanks. The new edition increases efforts on reaction times to alarms and emphasis on prevention programs, management systems, and more.
API Standard 2510, 9th Ed.
API Standard 2510, 9th Edition, Design and Construction of LPG Installations covers the design, construction, and location of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) storage installations and handling facilities. Revisions to API 2510 help address the safety of LPG storage installations by employing good engineering practices during both the design and construction of these facilities and addresses environmental protection.
API Standard 570, 5th Edition
The American Petroleum Institute (API) has published the 5th edition of API 570, Piping Inspection Code: In-service Inspection, Rating, Repair, and Alteration of Piping Systems.
API Standard 982, 1st Edition
The American Petroleum Institute (API) published the API Standard 982, 1st Edition Inspection and Assessment of Refractory Linings.
API Launches Standards Subscription Service
The American Petroleum Institute (API) is pleased to announce the latest addition to the API Webstore - the new Standards Subscription Service (Service). The new service offers Webstore customers unlimited, 24/7 access to API’s comprehensive suite of safety and compliance standards and recommended practices for use across their organization.
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