API Spec 7K

API Spec 7K Sixth Edition PDF

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.