The API Commitment on Refinery Equipment (CRE) has chartered a task group to develop an API recommended practice (RP 580), which will detail all the vital aspects of Risk-Based Inspection. This standard will not detail or propose any one specific...
Shortly after World War II, the FRP industry expanded rapidly into many areas. Chemical tanks were first fabricated in the 1950s. A comprehensive standard was needed and in 1969 a consensus standard was issued by the National Bureau of Standards:...
Three new recommended practices (RP) are under way within the API Inspection Subcommittee (SCI) which will add to the list of SCI standards available to owner-users to improve their mechanical integrity (MI) and inspection programs.
After pressure equipment (aka fixed or static equipment) is designed, fabricated, and constructed to new construction codes and standards (C/S), it is placed in-service, at which time the API In-service Inspection (ISI) C/S and ASME...
U.S. and North American energy regulators on Thursday issued recommendations and mandatory electric reliability standards for utilities that they hope will prevent a repeat of February's deadly power outages in Texas during a deep freeze.
API has released two revised liquid pipeline leak detection standards to improve operational integrity and advance operators’ mitigation capabilities.
The 2024 API Spring Refining and Equipment Standards Meeting will bring together Inspectioneers from across the oil and gas industry to discuss numerous API Standards, including all Inspection and Materials/Corrosion Standards.
The 2024 Fall Refining and Equipment Standards Meeting will bring together Inspectioneers from across the oil and natural gas industry to discuss the contents of numerous API Standards, including all Inspection and Materials/Corrosion Standards.
API has released updated fifth editions of API 570 and RP 574, two foundational standards for safeguarding piping systems used in the global refining and petrochemical industries.
Three new API standards have been published, and one has been revised and updated to a new edition. The standards are described in this post.
API has released a new report that finds its standards are widely used across the globe, with regulators and companies relying on them to enhance environmental, health, safety and operational performance in the natural gas and oil industry.
Equity Engineering Practices® (EEPs) are a collection of design and maintenance focused corporate standards that include >850 engineering standards, and >300 piping classes. Enhance your mechanical integrity programs, improve equipment...
The purpose of the new SPCC rule is two-fold; i.e. to prevent oil spills from occurring and to respond to them if they do occur. We believe that few will argue that prevention is far better and less costly than response in general. The focus of this...
If necessity is the mother of invention, then the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are the parents of guidelines, standards,...
Two separate forces have driven growth in the usage of API storage tank standards in Brazil. The first force is an increased regulatory presence in the refining, chemical, and petrochemical industries, which creates a need to thoroughly document any...
Updated editions of both API 570 and API RP 580 were recently released by the American Petroleum Institute.
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