Click here to purchase API Std 650 establishes minimum requirements for material, design, fabrication, erection, and testing for vertical, cylindrical, aboveground, closed- and open-top, welded carbon or stainless steel storage tanks in various sizes and capacities for internal pressures approximating atmospheric pressure (internal pressures not exceeding the weight of the roof plates), but a...

Click here to purchase The purpose of this document is to provide recommended practices for an owner/operator to develop and implement a material verification program (MVP) as part of an asset integrity program. The MVP uses positive material identification (PMI) and other testing and administrative methods to verify that the nominal composition of an asset, an asset component, or weldment (or...

Click here to purchase This publication is intended for a wide range of industry practitioners including those that design aviation fuel handling systems, specify and/or purchase equipment/components for use in such systems, manufacturers, and users of equipment/components, operators of pipelines, operators of pre-airport terminals and deopts and those that operate aviation fuel supply facilities...

Click here to purchase A complete set of API Recommended Practices 1604 (removal), 1615 (installation), 1621 (stock control), 1628 (spill clean-up), 1631 (interior lining), and 1632 (cathodic protection) in a vinyl binder.The 6 RPs are referenced as appropriate standards and guidance documents in recently-mandated federal technical standards for underground storage systems. Product Details...

Click here to purchase This standard provides comprehensive guidelines and procedures for properly extracting, collecting, conditioning, and handling a sample from a flowing natural gas stream at or above its dew point temperature and that represents the composition of the vapor-phase portion of the source fluid. This standard considers spot, composite, continuous, online, and mobile sampling...

Click here to purchase This standard covers the minimum requirements for open-, simple-, and regenerative-cycle combustion gas turbine units for services of mechanical drive, generator drive, or process gas generation. All auxiliary equipment required for operating, starting, controlling, and protecting gas turbine units is either discussed directly in this standard or referred to in this...

Click here to purchase This inspection code covers the in-service inspection, repair, alteration, and rerating activities for pressure vessels and the pressure-relieving devices (PRDs) protecting these vessels. This inspection code applies to all hydrocarbon and chemical process vessels that have been placed in service; however, it could also be applied to process vessels in other industries at...

Click here to purchase This specification provides the requirements and guidelines for the design and rating of beam pumping units for use in the petroleum and natural gas industry. Included are all components between the carrier bar and the gear reducer input shaft. This includes the following:a) beam pump structures;b) pumping unit gear reducer.Only loads imposed on the structure and/or gear...

Click here to purchase This standard covers the minimum requirements for form-wound and bar-wound brushless synchronous machines 500 kVA and larger for use in petroleum, chemical, and other industrial applications. This standard includes synchronous motors and generators with two different rotor designs:- salient-pole type rotors with solid or laminated poles;- cylindrical type rotors with solid...

Click here to purchase API Specification 6A specifies requirements and gives recommendations for the performance, dimensional and functional interchangeability, design, materials, testing, inspection, welding, marking, handling, storing, shipment and purchasing, of wellhead and christmas tree equipment for use in the petroleum and natural gas industries.This edition of API Spec 6A is the modified...