Flowlines
Flowlines
(OP)
Quote:
B31.8
ss 802.12 This Code does not apply to
....
(f) wellhead assemblies, including control valves,
flow lines between wellhead and trap or separator, offshore
platform production facility piping, or casing and
tubing in gas or oil wells. (For offshore platform production
facility piping, see API RP 14E.)
I am attempting to ascertain current practices as applied in the field. Knowing that there are variations to "interpretation" of the above clause and no doubt of many others in that and all codes, and without casting judgment in any form or fashion, I'd simply like to ask if anyone is aware, or knows of the use of B31.8 to design any "piping segment" between wellhead, trap or separator, either onshore, in a regulated gathering field, or offshore, especially in the GOM. Presumedly that could be attempted by justification, in light of the apparent contradiction with the above 2007 version of B31.8, that such practice was allowed or not prohibited by previous versions of the code, or versions since, by defining any such segment specifically as a "gas pipeline", rather than a "flowline". I've been long gone from the GOM many years now and I am interested to know what has become the SOP of late?
Just yes, or no, without any details, would do.
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RE: Flowlines
David
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Don't ask me to prove that all that would be legal today outside of an unregulated gathering system, say offshore GOM, because I don't see how it could be under the above. I just want to know if there might be some big-armed company man, or much better yet a committee interpretation, or an MMS ruling since then, that I'm not aware of, that somehow bends that paragraph. Not that I want to, it'd somebody else that was thinking about it, until I pointed out that little clause.
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Steve Jones
Materials & Corrosion Engineer
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