Standards News Highlights
New API 3D Printing Standard Promotes Efficiency and Environmental Stewardship
The American Petroleum Institute (API) today published a new standard on additive manufacturing (3D printing) for polymer-based components used in the natural gas and oil industry that will increase operating efficiency, ease supply chain issues and help reduce emissions.
API Enhances Community Safety with Updated Standard on Pipeline Public Awareness Programs
The American Petroleum Institute (API) today published an updated standard on pipeline operators’ public awareness programs to enhance community awareness of nearby pipelines and safety.
API Enhances Pipeline Safety with Two Updated Standards
The American Petroleum Institute (API) released two revised liquid pipeline leak detection standards to improve operational integrity and advance operators’ mitigation capabilities.
New API Standard Provides Framework for Pipeline Facility Safety Management Program
API has published API Recommended Practice (RP) 1188, Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Facilities Integrity Management, 1st edition. This first edition standard provides a framework for providing a framework for pipeline operators to develop a pipeline facility integrity management program.
API Publishes Two Updated Standards for Underground Natural Gas Storage
WASHINGTON, November 29, 2022 – The American Petroleum Institute today released two second-edition standards for natural gas storage in underground salt caverns and depleted hydrocarbon and aquifer reservoirs to help ensure a safe and reliable energy supply.
API Supports Safety With New Specification For Oilfield Hammer Unions
The American Petroleum Institute (API) published a new specification for manufacturing oilfield hammer unions, helping to expand future interoperability of the widely used field equipment and enhance safety for natural gas and oil industry workers.
API Releases 10th Edition of API Spec Q1: Updates Quality Management System for the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industry
The American Petroleum Institute (API) is pleased to announce the publication of the 10th edition of API Specification Q1, Quality Management System Requirements for Organizations Providing Products for the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industry. This milestone edition establishes essential benchmarks for developing a quality management system for equipment manufacturers that promotes continuous improvement, reduces the likelihood of delivering nonconforming product and drives operational efficiency.
New API Document Defines Methodology for Carbon Footprinting Calculation of Lubricants and Specialty Products
The American Petroleum Institute (API) today published API Technical Report (TR) 1533, Lubricants Life Cycle Assessment and Carbon Footprinting – Methodology and Best Practice, which defines an industry-specific methodology for life cycle assessment of lubricants and specialty products. The purpose is to promote harmonization and consistency in the application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Carbon Footprints of Products (CFP) across the lubricants industry. This publication will help to enhance customer confidence with product benefit claims related to sustainability.
Recommended Practice 15WT
API Recommended Practice 15WT, Operations for Layflat Hose in Oilfield Water Applications has been published to drive safety and environmental protection for those operations which use layflat hoses. The new recommended practice addresses the safe use of hoses at upstream operations and ensures operators are using equipment that can maintain integrity when transporting water. RP 15WT also addresses risk management evaluations, use of integrity management devices, storage, and more.
API Recommended Practice 54, 4th Edition
The American Petroleum Institute has released the fourth edition of Recommended Practice 54 (RP 54), Occupational Safety and Health for Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing Operations, which provides procedures for promoting and maintaining safe and healthy working conditions for personnel in drilling and well servicing operations.
The document applies to rotary drilling rigs, well servicing rigs, and special services as they relate to operations on location. First published in 1981, significant revisions in this edition of Recommended Practice 54 include a new section on flowback operations which is key for safe well testing, revised requirements for facility and site process hazard assessment and mitigation, and introduction of formal risk assessments as well as expanded provisions for offshore operations.
