Quality and Inspection Requirements for New and Refurbished Drilling and Well Completion Equipment

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Standards Referenced
Listed below are the publications of which some are directly referred to in NS-1 specifications.

1. For the publications in this list, the latest edition current at the time of purchase order issue shall apply.
2. When equipment is purchased to NS-1 and a governing specification (e.g. ISO 10423/API-6A), the revision
status of secondary publications listed below may not match that of the same standards listed in the governing
specification. If this is the case, the revision(s) quoted in the governing specification shall rule.
3. Certain ISO standards may or may not actually have been issued at the time of the CD-ROM release. In
such cases revert to the API Spec. equivalent number stated between the brackets.

ANSI/ASME B 16.34 Valves, flanged, threaded & welding end.

ANSI/ASME B 31.3 Chemical plant and petroleum refinery piping.
API RP-5A5 Recommended practice for field inspection of casing, tubing and plain-end drill pipe.
API Spec. 5D [ISO 11961] Specification for drill pipe.
API Spec. 5L [ISO DIS 3183] Specification for line pipe.
API BUL 5T1 (May 1988) Bulletin on imperfection technology.
API Spec. 8C [ISO 13535] Specification for drilling & production hoisting equipment (PSL1 & PSL2).
API Spec. 16A [ISO NP 13533] Specification for drill through equipment.
ASME Section IX Welding and brazing qualifications.
ASME Section V Non-destructive examination.
ASME Section VIII Division 1 Pressure vessel code.
ASME Section VIII Division 2 Pressure vessel code. (alternative rules)
ASNT-SNT-TC-1A Recommended practice for personnel qualification and certification in non-destructive testing.
ASTM A20/A20M Standard specification for general requirements for steel plates for pressure vessels.
ASTM A262 Detecting susceptibility to intergranular attack in austenitic stainless steels.
ASTM A370 Standard methods and definitions for mechanical testing of steel products.
ASTM A388/A388M Practice for ultrasonic examination of heavy steel forgings.
ASTM A488/A488M Standard recommended practice for qualification of procedures and personnel for the welding
of steel castings.
ASTM A508/A508M Standard specification for quenched and tempered vacuum-treated carbon and alloy steel
forgings for pressure vessels.
ASTM A578/A578M Standard specification for straight beam ultrasonic examination of plain and clad steel plates
for special applications.
ASTM A703/A703M Standard specification for steel castings, general requirements for pressure containing parts.
ASTM B214 Standard Test Method for Sieve Analysis of Granular Metal Powders.
ASTM B215 Standard Practices for Sampling Finished lots of Metal Powders.
ASTM B527 Standard test method for tap density of powders of refractory metals and compounds by tap-pak
volumeter.
ASTM E10 Standard test method for Brinell hardness of metallic materials.
ASTM E18 Standard test methods for Rockwell hardness and Rockwell superficial hardness of metallic materials.
ASTM E23 Standard methods for notched bar impact testing of metallic materials.
ASTM E92 Standard test method for Vickers hardness of metallic materials.
ASTM E125 Standard reference photographs for magnetic particle indications on ferrous castings.
ASTM E140 Standard hardness conversion tables for metals.
ASTM E186 ASTM E280 ASTM E446 Standard reference radiographs for steel castings.
ASTM E428 Standard Practice for Fabrication and Control of Steel Reference Blocks used in Ultrasonic inspection.
ASTM E709 Standard practice for magnetic particle examination.
BS 5996 Specification for acceptance levels for internal imperfections in steel plate, strip and wide flats, based on
ultrasonic testing.

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IADC/SPE 17206 Appropriate Design of Drill Pipe Internal upset Geometry Focusing on Fatigue Property.
IADC/SPE 19964 Fracture Toughness Criteria for High Strength Drill Pipe?
IADC/SPE 23841 What difference does Miu make in Fatigue life of Drill Pipe.
BS578 Quality Assurance requirements for measuring equipment. Part 1: Metrological confirmation system for
measuring equipment.
API.BUL 5C3 Formulas and Calculations for casing, tubing drill pipe and line pipe properties.
API RP 5C1 Care and use of casing and tubing.
API RP 7G Drill stem design and operating limits.
API RP 10E Application of cement lining to steel tubular goods, handling, installation and joining.
API RP 14B Subsurface safety valve systems – Design installation, repair and operation.
API RP 14C Offshore production platforms – Analysis, design installation and testing of basic surface safety sys-
tems.
API RP 14H Installation, maintenance and repair of surface safety valves and underwater safety valves offshore.
API Std. 5B Specification for threading, gauging and thread inspection of casing, tubing and linepipe threads.
API Spec.6A Specification for wellhead and christmas tree equipment.
API Spec. 10D Bow-spring casing centralisers – Specification.
API Spec. 11B Sucker rods (pony rods, polished rods, couplings and sub-couplings) – Specification.
API Spec. 11E Pumping units – Specification.
API Spec. 14A Specification for subsurface safety valve equipment.
API Spec. 14D Specification for wellhead surface safety valves and underwater safety valves for offshore service.
API Spec. 5CT Specification for tubing and casing.
MIL-Std. 105D Sampling procedures and tables for inspection by attributes.
MPIF Std. 1-6 Method for sampling finished lots of metal powders.
MPIF Std. 5-62 Method for sieve analysis of granular metal powders.
NACE Standard MR0175-94 Material requirement for sulphide stress cracking resistant material for oilfield equip-
ment.

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