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ANEXO A API 510

The document outlines the inspection code for pressure vessels in exploration and production (E&P) services, detailing the scope, exemptions, and inspection programs required for compliance. It specifies that E&P pressure vessels must follow the API 510 inspection code with certain exemptions, and it emphasizes the need for an inspection program to ensure vessel integrity. Additionally, it provides guidelines for determining the remaining life of pressure vessels based on actual and required thickness measurements.

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ANEXO A API 510

The document outlines the inspection code for pressure vessels in exploration and production (E&P) services, detailing the scope, exemptions, and inspection programs required for compliance. It specifies that E&P pressure vessels must follow the API 510 inspection code with certain exemptions, and it emphasizes the need for an inspection program to ensure vessel integrity. Additionally, it provides guidelines for determining the remaining life of pressure vessels based on actual and required thickness measurements.

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Pressure Vessel Inspection Code: In-service Inspection, Rating, Repair, and Alteration 61

8.9.2 The pressure vessel rerating will be considered complete when the appropriate engineering records are
updated followed by the attachment of an additional nameplate or additional stamping that carries the information
in Figure 2.

Figure 2—Sample Additional Nameplate

9 Alternative Rules for Exploration and Production (E&P) Pressure Vessels

9.1 Scope and Specific Exemptions

9.1.1 This section sets forth the minimum inspection rules for pressure vessels in E&P services. Typical E&P
services include pressure vessels associated with drilling, production, gathering, transportation, and treatment
of liquid petroleum, natural gas, natural gas liquids, and associated salt water (brine). Pressure vessels in E&P
services shall follow all sections of the API 510 inspection code, except for Section 6, as referenced in 9.3 and
9.4. Owner-operators may choose to use Section 6 instead of these paragraphs. These rules are provided
because of the vastly different characteristics and needs of pressure vessels used for E&P service. E&P service
conditions typically:

a) operate at relatively lower temperatures, often eliminating high-temperature damage mechanisms (e.g.,
HTHA and creep);

b) have smaller numbers of credible damage mechanisms with higher predictability and lower complexity;

c) tend to be steady state service as opposed to thermal cyclical or batch (mole sieves, cokers, reactors, etc.)

In some E&P applications, material selection and mechanical design can provide inherently safer designs that
reduce or eliminate in-service damage mechanisms. Some E&P facilities are of a complex nature where the
owner-operator may decide to not employ Section 9.

9.1.2 The following are specific exemptions.

a) Portable pressure vessels and portable compressed gas containers associated with construction machinery,
pile drivers, drilling rigs, well-servicing rigs and equipment, compressors, trucks, ships, boats, and barges
shall be treated for inspection and recording purposes as a part of that machinery and shall be subject to
prevailing rules and regulations applicable to that specific type of machine or container.

b) Pressure vessels referenced in Annex A are exempt from the specific requirements of this inspection code.

9.2 Inspection Program

9.2.1 General

Each owner-operator of vessels covered by Section 9 therefore exempted from the rules set forth in Section
6 of this document shall have an inspection program that will assure the vessels have sufficient integrity for
the intended service. Each E&P owner-operator shall have the option of employing, within the limitations of
62 API Standard 510

the jurisdiction in which the vessels are located, any appropriate engineering, inspection, classification, and
recording systems that meet the requirements of this document.

9.2.2 On-stream or Internal Inspections

Either an on-stream inspection or an internal inspection may be used interchangeably to satisfy inspection
requirements.

a) An internal inspection is required when the vessel integrity cannot be established with an on-stream
inspection. When an on-stream inspection is used, the scope (coverage, interval, technique, and so forth)
may be increased as a result of inspection findings.

b) In selecting the technique(s) to be used for the inspection of a pressure vessel, both the condition of the
vessel and the environment in which it operates should be taken into consideration. The inspection may
include any number of nondestructive techniques, including visual inspection, as deemed necessary by the
owner-operator.

c) At each on-stream or internal inspection, the remaining life shall be determined as described in 7.2.

9.2.3 Remaining Life Determination

9.2.3.1 For a new vessel, a vessel for which service conditions are being changed, or existing vessels, the
remaining life shall be determined for each vessel or estimated for a class of vessels (pressure vessels used in
a common circumstance of service, pressure, and risk) based on the following formula:

​tactual
​  ​− t​required
​  ​​
____________
​Remaining life = ​
  ​​ (9)
corrosion rate

where

​tactual
​  ​​​ is the actual thickness, in mm (in.), measured at the time of inspection for a given location or
component;
​trequired
​  ​​​ is the required thickness, in mm (in.), at the same location or component as the ​tactual
​  ​​​ measurement,
obtained by one of the following methods:
a) the nominal thickness in the uncorroded condition, less the specified corrosion allowance;

b) the original measured thickness, if documented, in the uncorroded condition, less the specified corrosion
allowance;

c) calculations in accordance with the requirements of the applicable construction code or by computations
determined using the appropriate formulas in the latest edition of the ASME BPVC, if all of the essential
details comply with the applicable requirements of the code being used.

​Corrosion rate = loss of metal thickness, in mm (in.), per year​

For vessels in which the corrosion rate is unknown, the corrosion rate shall be determined by one of the following
methods:

1) calculated from data collected by the owner-operator on vessels in the same or similar service;

2) determined through appropriately placed ultrasonic sensors on the equipment;

3) estimated by a corrosion specialist;

4) estimated from published data on vessels in same or similar service.

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