English -- Liner Hanger Equipment - FIRST EDITION

Abstract

Scope: This specification provides requirements for conventional and expandable liner systems, including liner hangers, liner packers, liner hanger packers, tie-back/polished-bore receptacles (TBR/PBRs), seal assemblies, setting adaptors/sleeves, and running/setting tools as defined herein for use in the oil and natural gas industry. This specification provides minimum requirements for the functional specification and technical specification, including design, design verification and validation, materials, quality control, documentation and data control, repair, shipment, and storage. Products covered by this specification apply only to applications within a conduit. Installation and field maintenance are outside the scope of this specification. Also not covered in this specification are casing crossover subs, expandable tubulars and expandable connections, end connections to the liner, cementing aids, liner wiper plugs and drill pipe darts, landing collars, float equipment, wellhead/casing hanger, sub-mudline suspension equipment, and cementing heads. Products covered by other API specifications are not in the scope of this specification. Requirements for the API Monogram program are contained in Annex A. This specification includes normative Annexes E, F, and H and informative Annexes A, B, C, D, and G.