1. Common Book for All API (API 510, 570 & 653)
A. REFERENCE PUBLICATIONS:
B. API Publications:
➢ API RP 571, Damage Mechanisms Affecting Fixed Equipment in Refining
Industry
➢ API RP 572, Inspection Practices for Pressure Vessels, including Annex B, (all
other Annexes are excluded) (API 510 ONLY)
➢ API RP 574, Inspection Practices for Piping System Components
➢ API RP 575, Inspection Practices for Atmospheric and Low-pressure Storage
Tanks
➢ API RP 576, Inspection of Pressure-relieving Devices
➢ API RP 576, Inspection of Pressure-relieving Devices ((Sections 4.3.2 and 6.6
only) (API 653 ONLY))
➢ API RP 577, Welding Processes, Inspection, and Metallurgy
➢ API RP 578, Material Verification Program for New and Existing Assets
➢ API RP 577, Welding Processes, Inspection, and Metallurgy
➢ API Standard 650, Welded Steel Tanks for Oil Storage
➢ API RP 651, Cathodic Protection of Aboveground Petroleum Storage Tanks (API
653 ONLY)
➢ API RP 652, Lining of Aboveground Petroleum Storage Tank Bottoms (API 653
ONLY)
C. ALL API INDIVISUAL BOOK
❖ API 510, Pressure Vessel Inspection Code: In-service Inspection,
Rating, Repair, and Alteration
❖ API 570, Piping Inspection Code: In-service Inspection, Rating,
Repair, and Alteration of Piping Systems
❖ API Standard 653, Tank Inspection, Repair, Alteration, and
Reconstruction
2. Common Book for All API (API 510, 570 & 653)
D. ASME Publications:
➢ Section V, Nondestructive Examination
➢ Section VIII, Division 1, Rules for Constructing Pressure Vessels
➢ Section IX, Qualification Standard for Welding, Brazing and Fusion
Procedures; Welders; Brazers; and Welding, Brazing and Fusing Operators
➢ ASME PCC-2, Repair of Pressure Equipment and Piping (Only API 510, 570)
➢ B16.5, Pipe Flanges and Flanged Fittings: NPS ½ Through NPS 24
Metric/Inch Standard (Only API 570)
➢ B31.3, Process Piping (Only API 570)