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API RP 2026 is intended primarily for those persons who are required to perform inspection, service, maintenance, or repair activities that involve descent onto floating roofs of in-service petroleum tanks.
In 2015, the pipeline industry completed the development of American Petroleum Institute (API) Recommended Practice (RP) 1173, Pipeline Safety Management Systems (Pipeline SMS).
API Recommended Practice 75 provides guidance for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving a Safety and Environmental Management System for offshore oil and natural gas operations.
The DFR amended PHMSA's regulations at 49 CFR part 195 to incorporate by reference the updated industry standard American Petroleum Institute (API) Recommended Practice (RP) 2026, "Safe Access/Egress Involving Floating Roofs of Storage Tanks in Petroleum Service."
API RP 1173 Pipeline Safety Management Systems Implementation Tool User Guidance This guidance document explains how to use the API RP 1173 Pipeline SMS Implementation Tool to evaluate, track, and summarize a pipeline Operator’s dev.
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This DFR amends PHMSA's regulations to incorporate by reference the updated industry standards API RP 1170, Design and Operation of Solution-mined Salt Caverns Used for Natural Gas Storage, and API RP 1171, Functional Integrity of Natural Gas Storage in Depleted Hydrocarbon Reservoirs and Aquifer...