This recommended practice (RP) aims to provide operators, contractors and suppliers with guidance on the management and application of reliability and integrity management (RIM) engineering techniques in subsea projects and operations within their scope of work and supply. It is applicable to:

— standard and nonstandard equipment (within the scope of API 17A);

— new field developments, further development of existing fields and field upgrades;

— all life cycle phases from feasibility through design, manufacture, and operation to decommissioning.

NOTE API 18LCM ^[1] gives additional guidance on general requirements for life cycle management of equipment.

This RP is not intended to replace individual company processes, procedures, document nomenclature, or numbering; it is a guide. For example, this RP does not prescribe the use of any specific equipment or process. It does not recommend any actions, beyond good engineering practice. However, this RP may be used to enhance existing processes, if deemed appropriate.

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This part provides standardized calculation methods for the determination of meter factors under defined conditions, regardless of the point of origin or destination or units of

measure required by governmental customs or statute. The criteria contained here will allow different entities using various computer languages on different computer hardware (or by manual calculations) to arrive at identical results using the same standardized input data. 

This document also specifies the equations for computing correction factors, including the calculation sequence, discrimination levels, and rules for rounding to be employed in the calculations. No deviations from these specified equations are permitted, since the intent of this document is to establish a rigorous standard.

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This document establishes requirements and provides guidelines for subsurface safety valve (SSSV) system equipment. This includes requirements for SSSV system design, installation, operation, testing, redress, support activities, documentation, and failure reporting. SSSV system equipment addressed by this document includes control systems, control lines, SSSVs, and secondary tools as defined herein. SSSV types including surface controlled (SCSSV), sub-surface controlled (SSCSV), and sub-surface injection safety valves (SSISV) are included. Requirements for testing of SSSVs including frequency and acceptance criteria are included. Alternate technology SSSV equipment and systems are included in these requirements. This document is not applicable to design, qualification, or repair activities for SSSVs. This document does not specify when a SSSV is required. 

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1 Scope 1.1 Coverage The purpose of this document is to recommend practices and procedures for promoting and maintaining safe and healthy working conditions for personnel in drilling and well servicing operations.

1.2 Applicability These recommendations apply to rotary drilling rigs, well servicing rigs, and special services as they relate to operations on location. It is intended that the applicable requirements and recommendations of some sections of the document be applied, as appropriate, to other sections. The recommendations are not intended to cover seismic drilling or water well drilling operations. These recommendations do not apply to site preparation and site remediation operations.

1.3 Responsibility Employers have the responsibility to identify, communicate, and mitigate hazards at the work site. A process of risk assessment may be an effective method to protect employees at the work site.

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This recommended practice (RP) provides guidance for floating system integrity management (FSIM) of floating production systems (FPSs), which include tension leg platforms (TLPs), used by the petroleum and natural gas industries to support drilling, production, storage, and/or offloading operations.

FPSs described in this RP are governed by local regulatory requirements and recognized classification society (RCS) rules (if classed). No specific regulatory compliance or RCS requirements are restated in this RP. The requirements of this RP do not apply to mobile offshore drilling units (MODUs) or to mobile offshore units (MOUs) used in support of construction operations. For integrity management (IM) considerations, these units are typically governed by RCS rules, and include, among others:

— floating systems intended primarily to perform drilling and/or well intervention operations even when used for extended well test operations;

— floating systems used for offshore construction operations (e.g. crane barges or pipelay barges), for temporary or permanent offshore living quarters, or for transport of equipment or products (e.g. transportation barges, cargo barges); for these, see appropriate RPs.

This RP does not address moorings or risers; these are addressed separately by API 2MIM and API 2RIM, respectively. Dynamic positioning is not covered in this RP.

The following types of floating systems are explicitly covered by this RP:

— ship-shaped floating systems and barges (monohull or otherwise);

— semisubmersibles;

— spars;

— tension leg platforms (TLPs), including tendon systems.

The following types of floating system components are included within the context of this RP:

— hull structure, including above water, below water, and internal (i.e. hull compartments) structure and corrosion protection systems (e.g., coatings, cathodic potential, etc.);

— structural systems, such as turrets, topsides structure, helidecks, flares, cranes, and process decks, and their interfaces with the hull structure;

— mooring system support structure on the hull (e.g. foundations for chain jacks, fairleads, chain stoppers, etc.)

— tendon systems, including foundations;

— marine systems, such as ballast, bilge, venting, soundings, firefighting systems, cargo systems, emergency power, propulsion, steering, sensors, alarms, and controls (vessels in transit are not included);

— permanent means of access and egress, including walkways, grating, handrails;

— structural interfaces between hull structure and riser system;

— appurtenances;

— life safety appliances.

This RP is directly applicable to oil and gas producing floating systems operating at ambient temperature, including floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) plants, except for the aspects related to handling and storage of cryogenic liquids.

The FSIM process provided in this RP is applicable to floating systems installed at any location worldwide. However, the referenced metocean criteria has regional limitations.

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This standard provides requirements for the installation and testing of blowout prevention equipment systems on land and marine drilling rigs (barge, platform, bottom-supported, and floating). This includes but is not limited to: BOPs (blowout preventers), Choke and kill lines, Choke and manifolds, Control systems, Auxiliary equipment. The primary functions of these systems are to confine well fluids to the wellbore, provide means to add fluid to the wellbore, and allow controlled volumes to be removed from the wellbore.

This standard does not apply to: Diverters, shut-in devices, and rotating head systems, as these systems are designed to safely divert or direct flow rather than to confine fluids to the well bore.

This standard is intended to be used together with API RP 59.

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This document provides guidance for managing annular casing pressure on offshore wells of various types to ensure that well integrity is maintained, and risks are managed

This document is meant to be used for existing offshore wells that exhibit annular casing pressure, including thermally induced casing pressure, sustained casing pressure (SCP) and operator-imposed pressure. It contains general information regarding annular casing pressure that is applicable to all offshore well types: fixed platform wells, subsea wells, hybrid wells and mudline suspension wells.

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This standard applies to wells drilled in a deep-water environment and is intended to improve the safety of operations and minimize the possibility of loss of well control fluids or damage to the environment in relation to drilling, completions, suspension, production and abandonment.

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This standard provides requirements for the installation and testing of blowout prevention equipment systems on land and marine drilling rigs (barge, platform, bottom-supported, and floating). This includes but is not limited to: BOPs (blowout preventers), Choke and kill lines, Choke and manifolds, Control systems, Auxiliary equipment. The primary functions of these systems are to confine well fluids to the wellbore, provide means to add fluid to the wellbore, and allow controlled volumes to be removed from the wellbore.

This standard does not apply to: Diverters, shut-in devices, and rotating head systems, as these systems are designed to safely divert or direct flow rather than to confine fluids to the well bore.

This standard is intended to be used together with API RP 59.

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