Standards News Highlights
API Bulletin 16H, 1st Edition
API has published API Bulletin 16H, Automated Safety Instrumented Systems for Onshore Blowout Preventer Actuation, 1st edition. This first-edition document provides recommendations for the equipment, interfaces and management of the automated safety systems and alarms for blowout preventers.
API Publishes First-Edition Document Enhancing Safety of Onshore Drilling and Production
The American Petroleum Institute (API) published an important first-edition document focused on improving the safety of onshore drilling and production operations. API Bulletin 16H, Automated Safety Instrumented Systems for Onshore Blowout Preventer Actuation, is the first upstream document that provides information on existing and emerging technologies to bring a well to a safe state if other operational barriers fail.
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 Recommended Practice 1188, 1st Edition
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 Recommended Practice 755, 2nd Edition
RP 755 provides guidance to employees, managers, and supervisors on understanding, recognizing and managing fatigue in the workplace. RP 755 also outlines how owners and operators should establish policies and procedures to address these issues in the workplace.
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 MPMS Standards on Gasoline-ethanol Blends
For more than 15 years, from blending to shipping, API has developed technical references for manufacturers, refiners and retailers of fuel-grade ethanol and gasoline blends, to promote consistency and quality of the product. An underlying goal of all API standards development is to enhance the safety of industry operations by assuring quality, consistency, interoperability and reliability across the globe. In this ongoing effort for safety and sustainability API has now published 4 advanced standards on gasoline-ethanol blends, and these new and updated standards are an example of this important work.
API Recommended Practice 1160, 3rd Edition
The American Petroleum Institute has released the third edition of API Recommended Practice 1160 (RP 1160), Managing System Integrity for Hazardous Liquid Pipelines, which provides a process for establishing safe pipeline operations, including robust assessments of potential risks and establishment of systems to safely and sustainably manage them throughout day-to-day operations
API Specification 6A, 21st Edition
We are pleased to announce the publication of the 21st edition of Specification 6A, Wellhead and Tree Equipment. This new edition provides technical updates that have reached consensus within API’s Subcommittee on Valves & Wellhead Equipment 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 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.
