American Petroleum Institute

Recommended Practice for Purchaser Representative Surveillance and/or Inspection at the Supplier - FIRST EDITION
 N RP 5SI

Annotation

PURPOSE AND COVERAGE

The purpose of this Recommended Practice (RP) is to provide guidelines for the surveillance and/or inspection of API products at supplier locations. This Recommended Practice establishes a set of general guidelines addressing the protocol between purchasers, suppliers and the purchaser representative for surveillance and/or inspection by the purchaser representative. This Recommended Practice is a general document for use at the request of the purchaser of API products. This document is intended to provide only general guidance to the industry. The issue of the roles and responsibilities of the parties is a subject that should be addressed as part of negotiations between the purchaser and the supplier. Included as a part of this document are product specific appendices. Processes other than those included will be considered for inclusion in this Recommended Practice. Persons desiring to have other processes considered shall submit a request to the "Committee on Standardization of Tubular Goods."

This Recommended Practice addresses the relationship and responsibility of the purchaser, suppliers, and purchaser representatives regarding surveillance and/or inspection of products from placement of the order or the pre-production meeting, as appropriate, through the point of title transfer from suppliers to purchasers. The use of the document by the parties is voluntary and it is merely intended to provide general guidelines on issues that should be addressed by the parties. This may include activities such as laboratory testing, nondestructive testing, dimensional verification, coating, shipping, handling/storage or other related activities.

This RP is not intended to conflict with those inspection activities outlined in other API documents. In case of a conflict, the other applicable API Document shall prevail.