Click here to purchase This standard establishes minimum requirements for material, design, fabrication, erection, and inspection for vertical, cylindrical, aboveground, closed- and open-top, welded 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 higher internal pressure...

Click here to purchase This standard describes the procedures for calibrating upright cylindrical tanks used primarily for the storage of petroleum liquids. Chapter 2.2A first addresses procedures for making necessary measurements to determine total and incremental tank volumes, then presents the recommended procedures for computingincremental volumes at each liquid level. This includes improving...

Click here to purchase This standard gives general requirements for the determination and use of meteorological and oceanographic (metocean) conditions for the design, construction and operation of offshore structures of all types used in the petroleum and natural gas industries.The requirements are divided into two broad types:those that relate to the determination of environmental conditions in...

Click here to purchase This technical report describes, discusses, and clarifies the section of the API Standard Paragraphs that outlines the complete rotordynamics acceptance program. The acceptance program was designed by API to ensure mechanical reliability of equipment. This document is an introduction to the major aspects of rotating equipment vibrations that are addressed during a typical...

Click here to purchase API MONOGRAM PROGRAM EFFECTIVE DATE: APRIL 1, 2020This specification covers physical properties and test procedures for materials manufactured for use in oil- and gas-well drilling fluids. The materials covered are barite; hematite; bentonite; non-treated bentonite; attapulgite; sepiolite; technical grade, low-viscosity carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC-LVT); technical grade,...

Click here to purchase This recommended practice (RP) supplements API 510 by providing pressure vessel inspectors with information that can improve skills and increase basic knowledge of inspection practices. This RP describes inspection practices for the various types of pressure vessels (e.g. drums, heat exchangers, columns, reactors, air coolers, spheres) used in petroleum refineries and...

Click here to purchase This recommended practice (RP) describes the inspection and repair practices for self-actuatedpressure-relieving devices commonly used in the oil/gas and petrochemical industries. As a guide to theinspection and repair of these devices in the user's plant, it is intended to ensure their proper performance.This publication covers self-actuated devices such as direct-acting...

Click here to purchase In response to serious technical errors in the 18th edition, the committee voted in January 2003 to withdraw the 18th edition, and reissue the 17th edition. The issue was safety, and API had no choice but to take this action. The next edition of 6A will be called the 19th edition.Contains errata and supplementary material.This specification was formulated to provide for the...

Click here to purchase This standard specifies requirements and provides guidance for the selection, design, specification, operation, and maintenance of flares and related combustion and mechanical components used in pressure-relieving and vapor-depressurizing systems for petroleum, petrochemical, and natural gas industries.Although this standard is primarily intended for new flares and related...

Click here to purchase (includes Errata dated October 2007)This standard covers the minimum requirements for constant-speed, packaged, general purpose integrally geared centrifugal air compressors, including their accessories.This standard is not applicable to machines that develop a pressure rise of less than 0.35 bar (5.0 psi) above atmospheric pressure, which are classed as fans or blowers....