API 6A 21st Edition WG

API Subcommittee SC-6 DiscussionsValves and Wellhead Equipment

Introduction

• TG Committee consists of 81 members• Meetings started in June 2013 with typically 30-

35 members per meeting• Held approximately nine WG meetings to date• TG approach– Build worklist (cut-off for items was August 2013)– Identify Teams and Team Captains– Divide worklist between teams– Meet as teams to resolve work items

Work Teams/Captains

– Design / Jean Brunjes– Materials, Welding and Cladding / Sterling Lewis– Organization / Eric Wehner– Qualification / Tom Lambert– Quality / Mike Briggs

– Documentation Specialist / Jill Bell– Co-Chairs / Eric Wehner & David Zollo

Worklist• Currently there are 155 items in the worklist• Several Items that needed roundtable discussion

– Overall document organization ideas – EW• EW will study new structure and propose ideas to TG

– Metric conversion issues – EW• Studying changes ranging strict conversion from metric to fixing critical bore and

interface clean-up

– Reference C/L – JB • Will remove triple & quad multiple completions from rewrite

– Alloy 625 Overlay Minimum Thickness Limit – DZ• Will determine a way to provide for minimum overlay thickness

–  Annex ordering issue – EW• Trying to keep references the same for frequently referenced Annex’s• Will remove Annex H (Tools) and create TR at a later date