API 6A 21 st Edition WG API Subcommittee SC-6 Discussions Valves and Wellhead Equipment

Introduction TG Committee consists of 81 members Meetings started in June 2013 with typically members per meeting Held approximately nine WG meetings to date TG approach – Build worklist (cut-off for items was August 2013) – Identify Teams and Team Captains – Divide worklist between teams – Meet as teams to resolve work items

Work Teams/Captains – Design / Jean Brunjes – Materials, Welding and Cladding / Sterling Lewis – Organization / Eric Wehner – Qualification / Tom Lambert – Quality / Mike Briggs – Documentation Specialist / Jill Bell – Co-Chairs / Eric Wehner & David Zollo

Worklist Currently there are 155 items in the worklist Several Items that needed roundtable discussion – Overall document organization ideas – EW EW will study new structure and propose ideas to TG – Metric conversion issues – EW Studying changes ranging strict conversion from metric to fixing critical bore and interface clean-up – Reference C/L – JB Will remove triple & quad multiple completions from rewrite – Alloy 625 Overlay Minimum Thickness Limit – DZ Will determine a way to provide for minimum overlay thickness – Annex ordering issue – EW Trying to keep references the same for frequently referenced Annex’s Will remove Annex H (Tools) and create TR at a later date