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API 500/505 Classification

API 500/505 Classification

API 500/505 Classification

(OP)
This question applies to platforms on the Outer Continental Shelf. Clarification in [brackets] is mine.

Title 30 CFR Section 215.114 states

Quote:

You [platform owner/operator] must classify all areas according to API RP 500, Recommended Practice for Classification of Locations for Electrical Installations at Petroleum Facilities Classified as Class I, Division 1 and Division 2, or API RP 505, Recommended Practice for Classification of Locations for Electrical Installations at Petroleum Facilities Classified as Class I, Zone 0, Zone 1, and Zone 2.

The question is: Are the results of these classifications made by the platform owner/operator filed anywhere?

I have the 500/505 and subsequently invoked 14C/F but they're pointless to me unless I know how the owner/operator actually applied them to their particular circumstance.

RE: API 500/505 Classification

Use plan drawings with a few cross-hatched patterns to document the area classifications.  Typically, most of the platform requires Class I Division 2.  Consider a few elevations or sections where the classification is Division 1 around vents etc.  Also reflect the group requirements where required to address hydrogen, olefins or alcohols that require group B etc.  See 29 CFR 1910.119 (d)(3)(i)(C)
(d)(3)(i)(C) for Electrical classifications.  Also see API RP 14J 6.2.5 Layout Information.

RE: API 500/505 Classification

(OP)
Agree that this is the way do show it.

What I am trying to determine is where these classifications for OCS, once made, are filed/kept - if anywhere.

As this is a CFR requirement I'm expecting some sort of filing with the government or in a plan; I could also be completely wrong.

Discussions with operators at the companies involved have been ambiguous at best.

Thanks for the reply.

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