Recommended Practice for Procedures for Inspections, Maintenance, Repair, and Remanufacture of Hoisting Equipment

API RECOMMENDED PRACTICE 8B EIGHTH EDITION, MAY 2014

ADDENDUM 1, MARCH 2019

ERRATA 1, AUGUST 2019

Date of Issue: August 2019

Affected Publication: API Recommended Practice 8B, Procedures for Inspections, Maintenance, Repair, and Remanufacture of Hoisting Equipment, 8th Edition, May 2014

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Contents

Page

1. Scope 1

2. Normative References 2

3. Terms, Definitions, and Abbreviated Terms 2

   1. Terms and Definitions 2

   2. Abbreviated Terms 3

4. General Principles 3

   1. Procedures 3

   2. Personnel Qualification 4

5. Inspection and Maintenance 5

   1. General 5

   2. Maintenance 5

   3. Inspection 5

6. Repair 10

   1. Procedures 10

   2. Bearings 10

   3. Replacement Parts 10

7. Remanufacture 10

   1. Procedures 10

   2. Verification 10

8. Load Testing 10

   1. General 10

   2. Performance Load Test 10

   3. Proof Load Test 11

9. Documentation and Records 11

   1. General 11

   2. User/Owner Equipment File 11

   3. Activity Records 12

Annex A (normative) Wear Limits for Square Shoulder Elevator Bores 13

Annex B (informative) Top Drive/Power Swivel Misalignment 15

Bibliography 17

Tables

1 Periodic Inspection and Maintenance—Categories and Frequencies 8

1. Wear Limits for Square Shoulder Elevator Bores for Non-upset Casing and Tubing 13

2. Wear Limits for Square Shoulder Elevator Bores for Upset Casing and Tubing 14

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Recommended Practice for Procedures for Inspections, Maintenance, Repair, and Remanufacture of Hoisting Equipment

1 Scope

This document provides guidelines and establishes requirements for inspection, maintenance, repair, and remanufacture of items of hoisting equipment manufactured according to API 8A, API 8C, or ISO 13535 used in drilling and production operations, in order to maintain the serviceability of this equipment.

Items of drilling and production hoisting equipment covered are:

• crown-block sheaves and bearings;

  
  

• traveling blocks and hook blocks;

  
  

• block-to-hook adapters;

  
  

• connectors and link adapters;

  
  

• drilling hooks;

  
  

• tubing hooks and sucker-rod hooks;

  
  

• elevator links;

  
  

• casing elevators, tubing elevators, drill-pipe elevators, and drill-collar elevators;

  
  

• sucker-rod elevators;

  
  

• rotary swivel-bail adapters;

  
  

• rotary swivels;

  
  

• power swivels;

  
  

• power subs;

  
  

• spiders, if capable of being used as elevators;

  
  

• dead-line tie-down/wireline anchors;

  
  

• drill-string motion compensators;

  
  

• kelly spinners, if capable of being used as hoisting equipment;

  
  

• riser-running tool components, if capable of being used as hoisting equipment;

  
  

• wellhead-running tool components, if capable of being used as hoisting equipment;

  
  

• safety clamps, capable of being used as hoisting equipment;

  
  

• top drives;

  
  

• casing running tools.

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