American Petroleum Institute (API)

Code/Standard Description
API Spec 2C: 1995 Offshore Cranes.
API Spec 5L: 2000 Line Pipe.
API Spec 6A:2004 / ISO
Wellhead and Christmas Tree Equipment.
10423.2003
API Spec 6D:2002 / ISO
Pipeline Valves.
14313.1999
API Spec 6DSS:2007 Subsea Pipeline Valves.
API Spec 6FA: 1999 Fire Test For Valves.
Internal Combustion Reciprocating Engines for Oil Field
API Spec 7B-11C: 1994
Services.
API Spec 11P: 1989 Packaged Reciprocating Compressors.
API Spec 14A. 2000 / ISO
Sub-surface safety valve equipment.
10432.1999
API Spec 16C: 1993 Choke and Kill Systems.
API Spec 17D: 1996 Subsea Wellhead and Christmas Tree Equipment.
API Spec 17E: 1998 Specification for Subsea Production Control Umbilicals.
API Spec 600: 2001 / ISO 10434: Bolted Bonnet Steel Gate Valves for Petroleum and Natural
1998 Gas Industries

Recommended Practice for Planning, Designing, and

API RP 2A-LRFD: 1993
API RP 2A-WSD: 2000
API RP 2RD: 1998
Constructing Fixed Offshore Platforms-Load and Resistance
Factor Design.
Recommended Practice for Planning, Designing and
Constructing Fixed Offshore Platforms-Working Stress Design.
Design of Risers for Floating Production Systems (FPSs) and
Tension-Leg Platforms (TLPs).

API RP 14B: 1994/ ISO 10417: Design, Installation, Repair and Operation of Subsurface
1993 Safety Valve Systems.
Analysis, Design, Installation, and Testing of Basic Surface
API RP 14C: 1998
Safety Systems for Offshore Production Platforms.
Design and Installation of Offshore Production Platform piping
API RP 14E: 1991
System.
Design and Installation of Electrical Systems for Fixed and
API RP 14F: 1999 Floating Offshore Petroleum Facilities for Unclassified and
Class I, Division 1 and Division 2 Locations.
Fire prevention and Control on Open Type Offshore
API RP 14G: 1993
Production Platforms.
Design and Hazards Analysis for Offshore Production
API RP 14J: 2001
Facilities.
Recommended Practice for Design and Operation of Subsea
API RP 17A: 1996
Production Systems.
API RP 17B: 1998 Recommended Practice for Flexible Pipe.
API RP 17C: 1991 Recommended Practice on TFL (Through Flowline) Systems.
API RP 17I: 1996 Installation Guidelines for Subsea Umbilicals.
Recommended Practices for Oil and Gas Producing and Gas
API RP 55: 1995
Processing Plant Operations Involving Hydrogen Sulfide
Development of a Safety and Environmental Management
API RP 75: 1997 Program for Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Operations and
Facilities.
Classification of Locations for Electrical Installation at
API RP 500: 1997
Petroleum Facilities.
Sizing, selection and Installation of Pressure-Relieving devices
API RP 520 Pt. 1: 2000
in Refineries. Sizing and Selection.
Sizing, selection and Installation of Pressure-Relieving devices
API RP 520 Pt. 2: 2000
in Refineries. Installation.
API RP 521: 1999 Guide for Pressure Relieving and Depressuring System.
API RP 2001: 2001 Fire Protection in Refineries.
API RP 2030: 2005 Application of Fixed Water Spray Systems for Fire Protection.

API STD 537: 2003 Flare Details.

API STD 594: 2004 Check Valves: Flanged, Lug, Wafer and Butt-welding.
API STD 607: 2005 Fire Test for Soft-Seated Quarter-Turn Valves.
API STD 609: 2004 Butterfly Valves: Double Flanged, Lug- and Wafer-Type.
Centrifugal Pumps for Petroleum, Petrochemical and Natural
API STD 610: 2003
Gas Industries.
Lubrication, Shaft-sealing and Control Oil System and
API STD 614: 1999
Auxiliaries.
Axial and Centrifugal Compressors and Expander
API STD 617: 2003
Compressors.
API STD 618: 1995 Reciprocating Compressors.
API STD 619: 1997 Rotary Type Positive Displacement Compressors.
Design and Construction of Large Welded, Low Pressure
API STD 620: 2002
Storage Tanks.
API STD 650: 1998 Welded Steel Tanks for Oil Storage.
API STD 660.2003 / ISO
Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers.
16812.2002
API STD 661.2002 / ISO
Air Cooled Heat Exchangers.
13706.2006
API STD 662.2002 / ISO Plate Heat Exchangers for General Refinery Services—Part 1
15547P.2006 —Plate-and-Frame Heat Exchangers.
API STD 672: 1996 Packaged, Integrally Geared centrifugal Air Compressors.
API STD 675: 1994 Positive Displacement Pumps – Controlled Volume.
API STD 682: 2002 Shaft Sealing Systems for Centrifugal and Rotary Pumps.

API STD 2000: 1998
API STD 2510: 2001
API STD 2610: 1994
Venting Atmospheric and Low Pressure Storage Tanks.
Design and Construction of LPG Installations.
Design, Construction, Operation, Maintenance and Inspection
of Terminal and Tank Facilities.

Pressure Vessel Inspection Code: Maintenance Inspection,

API 510: 1997
Rating, Repair, and Alteration
API 570: 1998 Piping Inspection Code

International Standards Organization (ISO)

Code/Standard Description
Offshore Production Installations - Basic surface process safety
ISO 10418:2003
systems (API RP 14C)
Petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries – Steam
ISO 10437: 2003
turbines – Special purpose applications.
ISO 10497:2004 Testing of valves. Fire type-testing requirements.
ISO 10628: Flow Diagrams For Process Plants - General Rules
Petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries -- Pipeline
ISO 13623: 2000
transportation systems.
Design and Operation of Subsea Production Systems: General
ISO 13628-1:2005
Requirements and Recommendations.
Design and Operation of Subsea Production Systems: Through
ISO 13628-3:2001
Flowline (TFL) systems.
Design and Operation of Subsea Production Systems: Subsea
ISO 13628-4:1999
Wellhead and Christmas Tree Equipment.
Design and Operation of Subsea Production Systems: Subsea
ISO 13628-5:2002
Umbilicals.
ISO 13628-6:2006 Design and Operation of Subsea Production Systems: Subsea
 Production Control Systems.
Design and Operation of Subsea Production Systems:
ISO 13628-8:2006 Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) interfaces on subsea
production systems.
Control and mitigation of fires and explosions on offshore
ISO 13702: 1999
production installations -- Requirements and guidelines
Petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries - Design
ISO 13703: 2000 and installation of piping systems on offshore production
platforms
Centrifugal pumps for petroleum, petrochemical and natural
ISO 13709: 2003
gas industries.
ISO 14313: 2007 Pipeline Valves.
ISO 14617: 2005 Graphical symbols for diagrams – Part 1 to 15
ISO 14723: 2002 Subsea Pipeline Valves.
Petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries. Offshore
ISO 15138: 2001 production installations. Heating, ventilation and air-
conditioning
Petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries—
ISO 15156 Pt. 1 TO 3: 2001/
Materials for use in H2S-containing environments in oil and
NACE MR 01-75: 2004
gas production.
ISO 15649: 2001 Petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries - Piping
Steel gate, globe and check valves for sizes DN 100 and
ISO 15761: 2002
smaller, for the petroleum and natural gas industries.
Metal ball valves for petroleum, petrochemical and allied
ISO 17292: 2004
industries.
ISO 23251: 2006 Pressure-relieving and depressuring systems (API RP 521)

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Code/Standard Description
ASME B16.5: 1996 Pipe Flanges and Flanged Fittings ½" to 24" NPS.
ASME B16.9: 2001 Factory Made Buttwelding Fittings.
ASME B16.10: 2000 Face to Face, End to End Dimensions of Valves.
ASME B16.11: 2001 Forged Fittings, Socket Welding and Threaded.
ASME B16.20: 1998 Metallic Gaskets for Pipe Flanges.
ASME B16.34: 1996 Valves – Flanged, Threaded and Welding End.
ASME B16.47: 1996 Large Diameter Steel Flanges 26 to 60 NPS
ASME B16.48: 1997 Steel line Blanks.
ASME B31.1: 2004 Power Piping.
ASME B31.2: 1968 Fuel Gas Piping.
ASME B31.3: 2004 Process Piping.
Pipeline Transportation Systems for Liquid Hydrocarbons and
ASME B31.4: 2006
Other Liquids.
ASME B31.8: 2003 Gas Transmission and Distribution Piping Systems.
ASME B31.9: 1996 Building Services Piping.
ASME B31.11: 1991 Slurry Transportation Piping Systems.
Manual for Determining the Remaining Strength of Corroded
ASME B31G: 1991
Pipelines.
Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code - Rules for Construction of
ASME Section VIII Div. 1
Pressure Vessels.

The Institute of Petroleum (IP)

Code/Standard Description
Guidelines for the Design and Protection of Pressure Systems
IP (2003)
to withstand Severe Fires.
Guidelines for the Safe and Optimum Design of Hydrocarbon
IP (2001)
Pressure Relief and Blowdown Systems.
Area Classification Code for Installation handling Flammable
IP 15
Fluids.
 National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE)
Code/Standard Description
NACE MR 01-75: 2004/ISO Petroleum and natural gas industries—Materials for use in
15156 Pt. 1 TO 3: 2001 H2S-containing environments in oil and gas production.

British Standard (BS)

BS EN 10204:2004 Metallic materials. Types of inspection documents
Specification for steel check valves (flanged and butt-welding
BS 1868:1975
ends) for the petroleum, petrochemical and allied industries
Specification for steel globe and globe stop and check valves
BS 1873:1975 (flanged and butt-welding ends) for the petroleum,
petrochemical and allied industries.

Engineering Equipment & Materials Users Association (EEMUA)

Specification for Integral Block and Bleed Valve Manifolds for
EEMUA 182: 2004
Direct Connection to Pipework.