API Recommended Practice(RP) 10G

API Recommended Practice(RP) 10G First Edition PDF

This document provides requirements, guidelines, and recommended practices for stage cementing collars used in cementing applications in the petroleum and natural gas industry. Information is included on the types, application, specification, validation, manufacturing, job planning and execution, and preventing and diagnosing problems. Use of stage cementing collars for non-cementing applications or annulus casing packers, or both, are outside the scope of this document.

Products covered under another API or international specification are not included. This document does not cover the connections to the well conduit.

This document contains no normative references. For a listing of other articles associated with this publication, refer to the bibliography.

API publications necessarily address problems of a general nature. With respect to particular circumstances, local, state, and federal laws and regulations should be reviewed. The use of API publications is voluntary. In some cases, third parties or authorities having jurisdiction may choose to incorporate API standards by reference and may mandate compliance.