1. TG Chair: Darren Bane (BHI)
API 14A Specification for Subsurface Safety Valves & RP 14B Design, Installation, Operation, Test
TG Chair: Darren Bane (BHI)
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2. Task Group
Group: 14A & 14B Specification for Subsurface Safety Valves (Manufacturing, Design, Operation, Test)
Chair: Darren Bane (BHI) / Roddie Smith
Number of Standards and RPs: 2 Spec
Meetings in last 12 months: 0
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3. Document Designation Status: 14A (100%), 14B (100%)
Document Title: 14A Specification for Subsurface Safety Valves; 14B Design, Installation, Operation, Test, and Redress of Subsurface Safety Valve Systems
Scope: These International Standards provides the requirements for subsurface safety valves (SSSVs), and the secondary tools necessary to operate the features included within them. It includes repair operations and the interface connections to control conduits and/or other equipment
Focus of change: (14A) Aligning the document with PER15K to include HPHT requirements; Define validation grades; Alternate technologies; (14B) Align with updated API 14A, update to latest industry practices and requirements
Chair:
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4. Document Designation SC Liaison Comments – Status: 100%
Document Title: API Spec 14A – Specification for Subsurface Safety Valve Equipment
Document published January 2015
Effective Date = January 15, 2016
Ongoing errata support
Current– 4 new clarification issues currently pending publication based on SR3 submitted at June 2016 meeting
SC Liaison Comments –
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5. Document Designation Ongoing errata support
Item1 – Update to Table 1 to clarify V4-1 and V4-2 for HPHT (new text shown in red)
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6. Document Designation Ongoing errata support Item 2 –
Change C.3 from “thermoplastics and other materials in accordance with ASTM D785, Shore D” to the following “thermoplastics and other materials in accordance with ASTM D2240 or ASTM D785, as appropriate”
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7. Document Designation Ongoing errata support Item 3 –
Table H.3—Thermoplastic Material Additional Specification Requirements Parameter Specification
Current
Updated
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8. Document Designation Ongoing errata support Item 4 –
Change c from “the scaled valve shall not have more leak paths than the base design” to “the scaled valve shall not have more dynamic leak paths than the base design”.
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9. Document Designation Status: 100%
Document Title: API Spec 14B – Design, Installation, Operation, Test, and Redress of Subsurface Safety
Valve Systems
Document published September 2015
Effective Date = November 2015
No activity in past 6 months
SC Liaison Comments –
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10. Questions or Comments?
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