What is API – American Petroleum Institute?
American Petroleum Institute (API) was established in 1919 as a standard-setting association. API develops, maintain, and provide organizations with unanimous standards for the oil and gas industry. API has developed more than 700 standards to improve operational safety, environmental assurance and sustainability over the industry, particularly through these standards being adopted comprehensively.
The American Petroleum Institute (API) is the largest U.S. trade association in the field of oil and natural gas industry. It claims to represent corporations involved in production, refinement, distribution and many other aspects of the petroleum industry. The safety requirements particularly in oil and gas industry are very stringent as a minor deviation in the product / component can lead to a major catastrophe. The product quality and operational consistency are the prime parameters to avoid any safety related issue at the site. API Standards helps to improve the safety of industry tasks, guarantee the quality, help minimize expenses, diminish waste, and limit the confusion in an oil and gas industry.
The API Standards includes
- API Spec Q1: Quality Management System for Manufacturing Organizations
- API Spec Q2: Quality Management System for Service Supply organizations
- API Monogram Program: Product Specific Technical Standards such as API 6A, API 6D, API 600, API 602, API 682, API 5CT, API 16C etc.
Note: In monogram license program, API Q1 and product specific requirements are applicable to the organization.
The focus of API Q1 is to streamline the business processes for consistency in product quality, safety & better controls over organizational processes.
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API certification is a very stringent and demanding across the globe. The number of certified organizations in India and in the world are very less as compared to the number of organizations certified to other standards such as ISO 9001 etc. The total number of monogram license holders are not even crossed mark of 500 companies at present in India. API certification requires 100% compliance to the standard and procedures laid down by the organization. Hence system implementation as per API standard requires a very systematic approach and errorless documentation approach.
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Initial Review
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- Gap analysis and planning for the documentation
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- Identification of product technical requirements
- Training and Hand holding/ support for implementation
Effective Verification
- Internal audit for verification of implemented system
- Management review
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- API Certification audit –
Stage 1 & Stage 2 - Closure of non-conformities support if any
- Rewarding the certificate to the organization
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Establishing a stringent quality management system to design and manufacture products for the oil and gas industry.
- Streamlining and standardizing the business processes
- Risk management for the business
- Formulating Quality Policy and Objectives
- Setting up a system for documentation and records.
- Management information system
- Business performance and sustainability.
- Product quality and consistency in service provision
- Standardization of processes
- Training & Skill development of human resource
- Setting up a system for documentation and records
- Management information system
- Risk management for the processes
The organization shall demonstrate continual improvement in the field of quality management systems by maintaining, establishing, implementing, and providing documented information.
The documented information required for API registration
- The organization’s scope
- The organizations Quality policy and Quality Objectives
- A Quality Manual
- Standard Operating Procedures
- Records at individual process/department. E.g. Sales, Purchase, Production, Quality Assurance, Maintenance, Customer Service.
- The organization manufacturing components and assemblies and supplying to oil and gas industry can apply for API Q1 certification. Similarly, the organizations offering services specially in oil and gas sector can apply for API Q2 certification. The monogram licensing is applicable for the specific product range manufacturing in accordance with the relevant API product specification. E.g. API 6A, API 6D etc.
- Entry passport for supply to oil and gas sector
- Better business opportunities and revenue
- Status of organization with premium certification
- Elimination of non-value-added activities from the system
- Satisfaction and Retention of Valuable Customers
- Better sustainability prospects.
- Product design and development process
- Compliance with technical specifications pertinent to the applicable product standard
- Consistency in product quality and safety
- Reduction in rework and rejection percentage in manufacturing processes
- Enhanced process controls and better controls in shop floor operations
- Setting up a system for documentation and records.
- API 936 certified personnel will recertify every 3 years as normal, and will be required to take a web quiz every 6 years, similar to the recertification process for the API 510, API 570 and API 653 programs.
- The API Q1 specification establishes the minimum quality management system requirements for organizations that manufacture products or provide manufacturing-related processes under a product specification for use in the petroleum and natural gas industry.
- While primarily developed for manufacturers in the petroleum and natural gas industry, this standard can also be used in other industry sectors when a quality management system with additional requirements over an ISO 9001 system is needed.
- Yes. Both share common elements. Since API Q2 is the more prescriptive of the two sets of quality requirements, complying with API Q2 should be the initial focus, then adding any additional requirements of ISO 9001.
- API Spec. Q1 –Quality Management System Requirements for Manufacturing Organizations for the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industry.
- API Spec Q2 – Quality management system (QMS) certification for service supply organizations in the oil and natural gas industry
- API 6A – Specification for Wellhead and Tree Equipment
- API 6D – Specification for Pipeline and Piping Valves
- API 602 – Gate, Globe, and Check Valves for Sizes DN 100 (NPS 4) and Smaller for the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries
- API 16AR – Standard for Repair and Remanufacture of Drill-through Equipment
- API 2B – Fabrication of Structural Steel Pipe
- API 2C – Offshore Pedestal-Mounted Cranes
- API 2F – Mooring Chain
- API 2H – Carbon Manganese Steel Plate for Offshore Structures
- API 2MT1 – Carbon Manganese Steel Plate with Improved Toughness for Offshore Structures
- API 2W – Steel Plates for Offshore Structures, Produced by Thermo-Mechanical Control Processing (TMCP)
- API 2Y – Steel Plates, Quenched-and-Tempered, for Offshore Structures
- API 4F – Drilling and Well Servicing Structures
- API 5B – Threading, Gauging, and Thread Inspection of Casing, Tubing and Line Pipe Threads
- API 5CRA – Corrosion Resistant Alloy Seamless Tubes for Use as Casing, Tubing and Coupling Stock
- API 5CT – Casing and Tubing
- API 5DP – Drill Pipe
- API 5L – Line Pipe
- API 5LC – CRA Line Pipe
- API 5LCP – Coiled Line Pipe
- API 5LD – CRA Clad or Lined Steel Pipe
- API 5ST – Coiled Tubing
- API 6A – Wellhead and Tree Equipment
- API 6D – Pipeline and Piping Valves
- API 6DSS – Subsea Pipeline Valves
- API 7-1 – Rotary Drill Stem Elements
- API 7-2 – Threading and Gauging of Rotary Shouldered Connections
- API 7F – Oil Field Chain and Sprockets
- API 7K – Drilling and Well Servicing Equipment
- API 8C – Drilling and Production Hoisting Equipment (PSL 1 and PSL 2)
- API 9A – Wire Rope
- API 10A – Cements and Materials for Well Cementing
- API 11AX – Subsurface Sucker Rod Pump Assemblies, Components, and Fittings
- API 11B – Sucker Rods, Polished Rods and Liners, Couplings, Sinker Bars, Polished Rod Clamps, Stuffing Boxes, and Pumping Tees
- API 11D1 – Packers and Bridge Plugs
- API 11E – Pumping Units
- API 12B – Bolted Tanks for Storage of Production Liquids
- API 12D – Field Welded Tanks for Storage of Production Liquids
- API 12F – Shop Welded Tanks for Storage and Production Liquids
- API 12J – Oil and Gas Separators
- API 12K – Indirect Type Oilfield Heaters
- API 12L – Vertical and Horizontal Emulsion Treaters
- API 12P – Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic Tanks
- API 13A – Drilling-Fluid Materials
- API 14A – Subsurface Safety Valve Equipment
- API 14L – Lock Mandrels and Landing Nipples
- API 15HR – High Pressure Fiberglass Line Pipe
- API 15LE – Polyethylene Line Pipe (PE)
- API 15LR – Low Pressure Fiberglass Line Pipe
- API 15S – Spoolable Reinforced Plastic Line Pipe
- API 16A – Drill-Through Equipment
- API 16C – Choke and Kill Equipment
- API 16D – Control Systems for Drilling Well Control Equipment and Control Systems for Diverter Equipment
- API 16F – Marine Drilling Riser Equipment
- API 16RCD – Rotating Control Devices
- API 17D – Design and Operation of Subsea Production Systems—Subsea Wellhead and Tree Equipment
- API 17J – Unbonded Flexible Pipe
- API 17K – Bonded Flexible Pipe
- API 19AC – Completion Accessories
- API 19G1 – Side-Pocket Mandrels
- API 19G2 – Flow-Control Devices for Side-Pocket Mandrels
- API 19G3 – Running Tools, Pulling Tools and Kick-Over Tools and Latches for Side-Pocket Mandrels
- API 19V – Subsurface Barrier Valves and Related Equipment
- API 20A – Carbon Steel, Alloy Steel, Stainless Steel, and Nickel Base Alloy Castings for Use in the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industry
- API 20B – Open Die Shaped Forgings for Use in the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industry
- API 20C – Closed Die Forgings for Use in the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industry
- API 20E – Alloy and Carbon Steel Bolting for Use in the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries
- API 20F – Corrosion Resistant Bolting for Use in the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries
- API 547 – General-Purpose Form-Wound Squirrel Cage Induction Motors-250 Horsepower and Larger
- API 594 – Check Valves: Flanged, Lug, Wafer, and Butt-Welding
- API 600 – Steel Gate Valves-Flanged and Butt-Welding Ends, Bolted Bonnets.
- API 602 – Gate, Globe, and Check Valves for Sizes DN 100 (NPS 4) and Smaller for the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries
- API 603 – Corrosion-Resistant, Bolted Bonnet Gate Valves—Flanged and Butt-Welding Ends
- API 608 – Metal Ball Valves-Flanged, Threaded, and Welding Ends
- API 609 – Butterfly Valves: Double-Flanged, Lug- and Wafer-Type
- API 650 – Welded Tanks for Oil Storage.