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653 Recert 2023

This document provides information for API 653 inspectors on recertification requirements. It lists the relevant API standards and recommended practices that inspectors must be familiar with for their recertification exam every six years. These include the latest editions of API RP 571 on damage mechanisms, API RP 575 on storage tank inspection, API RP 577 on welding processes, and API Standard 653 on tank inspection and repair. Inspectors must demonstrate knowledge of revisions to API 653 and other relevant API documents that are part of the body of knowledge for inspection.

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653 Recert 2023

This document provides information for API 653 inspectors on recertification requirements. It lists the relevant API standards and recommended practices that inspectors must be familiar with for their recertification exam every six years. These include the latest editions of API RP 571 on damage mechanisms, API RP 575 on storage tank inspection, API RP 577 on welding processes, and API Standard 653 on tank inspection and repair. Inspectors must demonstrate knowledge of revisions to API 653 and other relevant API documents that are part of the body of knowledge for inspection.

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API 653 RECERTIFICATION PUBLICATIONS EFFECTIVITY SHEET

Effective: April 3, 2023

Every other recertification period (every six years), actively engaged inspectors shall demonstrate knowledge of revisions to
API 653 as well as other relevant API documents that encompass the body of knowledge (BOK). Please familiarize yourself
with the following editions and addenda of these documents.

 API RP 571, Damage Mechanisms Affecting Fixed Equipment in the Refining Industry, 3rd Edition, March 2020
ATTENTION: Only the following sections / mechanisms from RP 571 are included on the exam:

Sections:
2 Terms and Definitions
3.8 Atmospheric Corrosion
3.11 Brittle Fracture
3.14 Caustic Corrosion
3.15 Caustic Stress Corrosion Cracking (Caustic Embrittlement)
3.17 Chloride Stress Corrosion Cracking
3.22 Corrosion Under insulation (CUI)
3.43 Mechanical Fatigue (Including Vibration-induced Fatigue)
3.45 Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC)
3.57 Soil Corrosion
3.58 Sour Water Corrosion (Acidic)
3.62 Sulfuric Acid Corrosion

 API RP 575, Inspection Practices for Atmospheric and Low-Pressure Storage Tanks, 4th Edition, July 2020

 API RP 577 – Welding Processes, Inspection, and Metallurgy, 3rd Edition, October 2020

 API Standard 650, Welded Tanks for Oil Storage, 13th Edition, March 2020 with Errata 1 (January 2021)

 API RP 651, Cathodic Protection of Aboveground Petroleum Storage Tanks, 4th Edition, September 2014.

 API RP 652, Lining of Aboveground Petroleum Storage Tank Bottoms, 5th Edition, May 2020

 API Standard 653, Tank Inspection, Repair, Alteration, and Reconstruction, 5th Edition, November 2014, Addendum 1
(April 2018), Addendum 2 (May 2020), Errata 1 (March 2020)

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Please ensure you obtain authorized documents from one of API’s redistributors:
Techstreet: www.techstreet.com; Phone: 1-800-699-9277
IHS Documents: www.global.ihs.com; Phone: 1-800-854-7179

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