2014 API Spring Meeting
SCI Joint Meeting
Wednesday
May 21, 2014
1. Introductions
a. Attendee
See attendee list
2. Approval of Agenda
a. Approve with addition of HTHA
3. Approval of last minutes
a. Approved
4. Antitrust
a. Peter Hunt asked about ISO and the impact on our documents. Clay says it has been
discussed at the CRE and there is no clear indication of the impact as yet. Still in review
but CRE has not provided any limitations.
5. SCI Executive &CRE Issues
a. API 510, API RP 575, API RP 583, API RP 584, API RP 585 were all published during April
and May 2014
b. API 651 (CP of Tanks) going to publication
c. API 652 (Covers tank liners) going to publication
d. API 12-B (Balloted and Passed)
e. API 12R1 (Task Group initiated to work document)
6. Status Reports
a. API 570
 Comments only this time. Went through all the comments at this meeting. Will
post updated draft document for balloting this summer (entire document open).
b. RP 572
 Met this time – went through the scorecard items from the last meeting – Shell
ballot was found and discussed – Good plan for going forward – all information to
the group will be sent out for work to be done by July – ballot in August or so (entire
document open)
 John Reynolds is willing to help on the document, since a lot of his comments are
there
c. RP 574
 574 was sent out for comments only previously. Went through all the comments
received from ballot in Fall 2013 at this meeting. Will post updated draft document
for balloting this summer (entire document open).
d. RP 576
 CRE approved for extension to 2016. Planning to go to ballot this fall – significant
changes
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e. RP 577
 Published in December 2013.
f. RP 578
 Not started for reaffirmation – will start next meeting
 Josh Yoakum (Holly Frontier) will lead / Don will assist
 Task Group – Terry McClane, Peter Hunt, Mike Sens, Kelly van Loon, Don Locke,
Amanda Cherry, Mark Lassard, Brent Ray, Clay White, and Joe Krynicki – will start
the next revision
 Josh/Don to send in an SRR for a Master Editor and see if any technical inquiries
have been submitted to API
g. RP 580
 Was sent out for comments – these were discussed at the meetings – good
commitment from the room to the language – should be balloted in the Summer
and be ready for publication this year
 Ray Konet asked if the document is going to be called a standard or RP? Clay
answered and said the process is still fuzzy, but CRE indicates that it is up to the
committee. He said the committee will wait till all the technical items are agreed to
before this is discussed and decided. It would be the first SCI document that has
both “should” and “shalls”.
 John Reynolds reminded us that a straw poll from 2 meetings ago said to leave it as
an “RP”, but this could be revisited.
h. RP 581
 Between Fall API and now, we had a 2nd ballot on all three parts. Parts 1 & 3 were
once again consensus, but had 300+ comments. Part 2 was not consensus, and had
275+ comments.
 Reviewed all of Part 1 and Part 3 comments, with some work to be done. Part 2 was
about 50% completed, with a teleconference to address the remainder.
 Concerning Part 2, during the ballot resolution, there were 2 negative votes
withdrawn and 1 set of double company votes (both negative) reduced to 1. This
now allows the part to pass into a redline only reballot. It is consensus.
 Expect a 3rd ballot out – redlined items only – during the next few months, all due by
November 1st.
i. RP 583
 Published on May 15, 2014
j. RP 584
 Published on May 16, 2014
k. RP 585
 Published in April 2014
l. RP 586
 Has a draft RFP to get a master editor.
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m. RP 587
 Started development the document at this meeting.
7. Inspection-related Corrosion Material Document
a. 939C (Sulfidation)
 One big item is inspection protocol for C/S where both low silicon and high silicon
steels exist.
 Minimum temperature threshold, etc. will be topics for work this cycle.
 There will be no ballot before the Fall meeting. Still a chance to impact the
standard.
b. 934-I (Inspection of Heavy Wall Vessels)
 New task group dealing with the inspection of thick-walled vessels in the low
chrome materials. Just started and didn’t progress that far. Will contain some
metallurgy items also.
 Companion document 934H deals with repair and these two may merge.
 Volunteers are needed to help work on this document.
c. 941 (HTHA)
 A new line for non-PWHT’d CS. The existing Nelson curve stays for PWHT’d CS.
 Companion technical report is under review cycle and it will be updated to reflect
current knowledge.
d. 970 (Corrosion Control Document)
 New document to be developed, which will include recommended practices on
setting on circuits for inspection and integrity management. SCI should be included
to comment/vote on inspection contents.
8. Individual Certification Program (ICP)
a. The entire application process is now on line, paperless.
b. 13,000+ people have registered on the ICP portal to access their data and apply for
(re)certification.
c. CBT stared in March 2014. All the exams will be given three tests per year, every four
months. Exams for different certs (e.g. API 510 and 570) are also decoupled so that
there is no conflict of schedule in taking exams for different certs.
d. Starting in 2015, the schedule will be solidified and the results process will be expedited.
e. The process is not ready for dealing with question or challenges.
f. Slightly smaller numbers of testing applicants this past year, maybe attributed to the
new testing (resistance to change).
g. API 571 wants to be next supplemental.
h. Pipeline inspector certification program to start this year. First two tests to be offered
in August and November.
9. Report from the Manufacturers and Contractors subcommittee
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a. Met this meeting – good mix – short discussion around the purpose of the group and
have decided that it should be forum for discussion and/or sharing.
b. One issue that is being discussed is the availability of qualified technicians.
c. Another discussion was brought up around a developing situation that may impact the
cost and availability of inspection services.
d. Looking at possibly a senior API designation. This was requested and discussed
previously. API had responded by creating the supplemental certs (e.g. 577, 580) to
recognize the different level. The next supplemental cert will be on 579. API cannot
give two different levels on the same body of knowledge (i.e. no two levels of API 510)
unless there are two scopes of the BOK.
10. NDE Reports
a. NDE Task Group
 UT examiner certification program.
1. Proposed to expand QUTE to include UT thickness measurement for
piping and vessels and Phased Array UT crack sizing.
2. QUTE-PA pass rate looks good.
3. Tank bottom thickness exam is going slowly.
 Approval for master editor for UT examiner qualification.
 Joint Industry programs were discussed. Exxon proposed new PERF project on
CUI. 6-8 companies are interested in the PERF project. Shell proposed new
industry collaborative research on corrosion monitoring with permanently
installed wireless sensing network.
b. ASNT
 Nothing.
c. HOIS – offshore inspection services – similar to API – in Europe
 Select various NDE topics to do investigations on (‘hot points’) – report on the
investigation – create a recommended practices
 They want these to become RAGAGAP in Europe
 Group is growing and has 26 or so projects in progress
11. Inspection Summit
a. Will be held January 25-29, 2015
b. The IS Committee has had monthly planning meetings since the work kicked off at the
2013 Fall Meeting.
c. Three sectors: Upstream, Midstream and Downstream. Each sector has three tracks:
Corrosion/Materials, Inspection/NDE, and Design/Engineering.
d. Call for presentation has been sent out to all the people on API’s previous IS distribution
list.
e. By the 3rd week of Sept, all the people will be notified whether their abstracts have
been accepted or rejected.
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f.
Will expand the Exhibit space this time. Will be open for vendors to apply within the
next two weeks.
g. Topic areas of interest for panel or workshop: NDE, emerging NDE technologies for
piping, emergency response, HTHA, UT thickness measurement accuracy, CUI
inspection, underground piping inspection, RBI, and low Si CS piping sulfidation &
inspection.
12. Industry Experience on Pressure Equipment Issues
a. Clay White shared experience with embrittlement cracking on 1.25Cr piping flange
caused by arc gouging to cut the nuts off.
b. David Wang discussed thermal fatigue issues related to mix points, including use of
thermal sleeve to mitigate risk of thermal fatigue cracking at the mix point junction and
at girth welds downstream of the mix point.
13. Liaison Reports
a. NBIC/API Regulatory
 ASTM RBI document is being developed by ASTM Committee E50. Draft coming
in the fall for review and ballot. Heavily service provider driven, not owneruser. Most are HSE side, not design, MI, inspection people.
b. ASME Design Standards
 Drafts are being introduced regarding Class 1 vessels, for current Div 1 vessels.
Want to resolve by August for 2015 edition. Big question is how to incorporate
the spot RT rules for Div 1 vessels.
 An error has been discovered in Table 6.1 of Div 2, for one piece double
curvature heads. It produces a non-conforming value for flow forming. Some
heads may need PWHT and weren’t. A code case has been formed and should
be published soon, and a special notice will be provided to the applicable
personnel, etc.
c. ASME PCC
 The PCC-1, 2013 edition is available. Most notable is App A for guidelines for
training/qualification of bolting personnel, but no longer has a process listed.
Table 5 is particularly important. (Market driven program that wants the users
to drive the program.)
 The PCC-2 document is targeted for publication in summer 2014. There are
revisions to articles on external weld buildup, non-composite repair systems,
pressure/tightness testing, repair considerations on CrMo vessels, etc. There is
a list of items to work on the next revision.
 PCC-3 met and had a high-pressure systems committee that wants to attach for
requalification for vessels with fatigue service design. This is being fast-tracked.
Circulation in June. Target for PCC-3 next edition is year-end (2014).
d. European Inspection Related Activities
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No liaison at this time. George (BP) volunteered to be the liaison reporting work
in UK and Continental Europe.
e. Upstream Liaison
 Nothing from the floor.
 David Bryan of Marathon was nominated by Brent Ray to be the liaison to the
API Upstream Committee.
14. Old Business
a. Nothing to discuss.
15. New Business
a. Rick Nichols (API) has told API group leadership that the API Week will be extended to 4
days (Thursdays), mainly for CRE close-out. That may push the SCI close-out on
Thursday, and may conflict with CRE close-out. That will be determined further later on.
The impact will be an extra day of travel.
16. Next Meeting:
a. Denver, CO, Nov. 12, 2014
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