American Petroleum Institute

Recommended Practice for Flexible Pipe Ancillary Equipment - First Edition
 N RP 17L2

Annotation

This Recommended Practice provides guidelines for the design, materials selection, analysis, testing, manufacture, handling, transportation, installation and integrity management of flexible pipe ancillary equipment. It supplements API 17L1, which specifies minimum requirements for the design, material selection, manufacture, documentation, testing, marking and packaging of flexible pipe ancillary equipment.

This Recommended Practice presents the current best practice for design and procurement of ancillary equipment, and gives guidance on the implementation of the specification for standard flexible pipe ancillary products. In addition, this Recommended Practice presents guidelines on the qualification of prototype products.

The applicability relating to a specific item of ancillary equipment within this Recommended Practice is stated at the beginning of the section dedicated to that item of ancillary equipment.

This Recommended Practice applies to the following flexible pipe ancillary equipment:

— bend stiffeners;

— bend restrictors;

— bellmouths;

— buoyancy modules and ballast modules;

— subsea buoys;

— tethers for subsea buoys and tether clamps;

— riser and tether bases;

— clamping devices;