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Link to an amendment published at 84 fr 52294, oct. Recommended practice for occupational safety for oil and gas well. Requests for permission to reproduce or translate all or any part of the material published herein should also be addressed to the director. Such equipment may include vessels, machinery, piping, blowout preventers, wellheads and related valving, flares, alarms, interlocks, fire protection equipment. These operations include well drilling, completion, servicing, workover, downhole maintenance, and plug and abandonment procedures conducted with hydrogen sul. Recommended practice for flexible pipe my committees. Api recommended practice 54, 4th edition the american petroleum institute has released the fourth edition of recommended practice 54 rp 54, occupational safety and health for oil and gas well drilling and servicing operations, which provides procedures for promoting and maintaining safe and healthy working conditions for personnel in drilling and well servicing operations. Find the most uptodate version of api rp 49 at engineering360. Every effort has been made by api to assure the accuracy and reliability of data contained in this publication. Recommended practice for drilling and well servicing operations. The rp is set to be released early this year and has been supported by the.
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