American Petroleum Institute

Specification for Flexible Pipe Ancillary Equipment - FIRST EDITION; ERTA 1: JANUARY 2015
 N SPEC 17L1

Annotation

This specification defines the technical requirements for safe, dimensionally and functionally interchangeable flexible pipe ancillary equipment that is designed and manufactured to uniform standards and criteria.

Minimum requirements are specified for the design, material selection, manufacture, testing, documentation, marking and packaging of flexible pipe ancillary equipment, with reference to existing codes and standards where applicable. See API 17L2 for guidelines on the use of ancillary equipment.

The applicability relating to a specific item of ancillary equipment is stated at the beginning of the particular section for the ancillary equipment in question.

This specification 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;

— piggy-back clamps;

— repair clamps;

— I/J-tube seals;