Standards News Highlights
API Recommended Practice 687, 2nd Edition
The American Petroleum Institute (API) has published the 2nd edition of API Recommended Practice 687, Special-Purpose Rotating Equipment Repairs..
API Publishes 10th Edition of API Spec Q1, Delivering Crucial Quality Management System Updates for the Petroleum & Natural Gas Industry
The American Petroleum Institute (API) has published 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 updated quality management requirements that promote operational efficiencies and continual improvements.
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.
API Specification Q1, 10th Edition
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.
API Publishes 4th Edition of Standard for Classification of Locations for Electrical Installations at Petroleum Facilities
The American Petroleum Institute (API) has published API Recommended Practice (RP) 500, Classification of Locations for Electrical Installations at Petroleum Facilities Classified as Class 1, Division 1, and Division 2, 4th edition, for the safe selection and installation of electrical equipment in potentially hazardous environments.
API Recommended Practice 500, 4th Edition
The American Petroleum Institute (API) has published API Recommended Practice (RP) 500, Classification of Locations for Electrical Installations at Petroleum Facilities Classified as Class 1, Division 1, and Division 2, 4th edition, for the safe selection and installation of electrical equipment in potentially hazardous environments.
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.
Subscribers can sign up by industry segment or for a solution that fits your specific needs.
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.
API Publishes First-Edition Standard For Pump Repair and Inspection
The American Petroleum Institute has published a first-edition standard, API Recommended Practice (RP) 697, Pump Repair, that provides comprehensive guidance for pump inspection and repair that will help enhance safety, reduce emissions and improve operations across the natural gas and oil industry.
API Publishes First-Edition Guidance On Subsea Leak Detection Systems
API has published a first-edition technical report on leak detection for multiphase subsea production gathering and gas injection systems that incorporates best practices on leak detection methods using process data and operator training, with the aim of minimizing impacts on the environment if there is loss of containment.
