API SPEC 7K

Abstract

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. <br>This specification is applicable to the following equipment: <br>a) rotary tables; <br>b) rotary bushings; <br>c) high-pressure mud and cement hoses; <br>d) piston mud-pump components; <br>e) drawworks components; <br>f) manual tongs; <br>g) safety clamps not used as hoisting devices; <br>h) blowout preventer (BOP) handling systems; <br>i) pressure-relieving devices for high-pressure drilling fluid circulating systems; <br>j) snub lines for manual and power tongs; <br>k) rotary slips, both manual and powered; <br>l) slip bowls; and <br>m) spiders, both manual and powered.