API SPEC 7K : 2015

Drilling and Well Servicing Equipment

Standard Details

Includes Errata 1, May 2016, Errata 2, August 2016

Full Description

This specification provides general principles and specifies requirements for design, manufacture, and testing of new drilling and well-servicing equipment and of replacement primary load-carrying components manufactured subsequent to the publication of this specification. This specification is applicable to the following equipment:

a) rotary tables;

b) rotary bushings;

c) high-pressure mud and cement hoses;

d) piston mud-pump components;

e) drawworks components;

f) manual tongs;

g) safety clamps not used as hoisting devices;

h) blowout preventer (BOP) handling systems;

i) pressure-relieving devices for high-pressure drilling fluid circulating systems;

j) snub-lines for manual and power tongs;

k) rotary slips, both manual and powered;

l) slip bowls; and