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API Spec 13A Historical

1320615

Specification for Drilling-Fluid Materials, Seventeenth Edition, Includes Errata (2008)

standard by American Petroleum Institute , 11/01/2006

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Identical to ISO 13500:2006, Petroleum and natural gas industries-Drilling fluid materials-Specifications and tests.

API Spec 13A covers physical properties and test procedures for materials manufactured for use in oil- and gas-well drilling fluids. The materials covered are barite, haematite, bentonite, nontreated bentonite, OCMA grade bentonite, attapulgite, sepiolite, technical grade low-viscosity carboxymethylcellulose (CMC LVT), technical grade high-viscosity carboxymethylcellulose (CMC-HVT), and starch. This International Standard is intended for the use of manufacturers of named products.

This edition of API Spec 13A is the identical national adoption of ISO 13500:2006, Petroleum and natural gas industries-Drilling fluid materials-Specifications and tests. See more

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Document History

  1. API Spec 13A

    October 2019
    Drilling Fluids Materials, Nineteenth Edition, Includes Addendum 1 (2020), Addendum 2 (2022), and Errata 1 (2024)

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  2. API Spec 13A (R2015)

    February 2010
    Specification for Drilling Fluid Materials, Eighteenth Edition, Includes Errata 1, 2, 3, & 4

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    November 2006
    Specification for Drilling-Fluid Materials, Seventeenth Edition, Includes Errata (2008)

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  4. API 13A

    February 2004
    Specification for Drilling-Fluid Materials, Sixteenth Edition and ISO 13500:1998 (Modified) Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries - Drilling Fluid Materials-Specification and Tests

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  5. API 13A

    May 1993
    Drilling-Fluid Materials

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    October 2008
    Errata to Specification for Drilling-Fluid Materials, Seventeenth Edition

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