API SPEC 7K-ed.6

Annotation of standard text API SPEC 7K-ed.6 :

API SPEC 7K, 6th Edition, December 2015 - Drilling and Well Servicing Equipment

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
• m) spiders, both manual and powered.