API RP 17W

Description

This API RP 17W document contains subsea capping stack recommended practices for designing, building, and using, as well as maintaining and testing during storage. The document focuses on: • topics for drafting a Basis of Design (BOD) document that could be used to constructing a new subsea capping stack, • topics that may drive improvements for existing subsea capping stack equipment, and • topics for drafting plans for storing, transporting, maintaining, and testing a subsea capping stack. Other important elements of a complete subsea capping stack system that are addressed in this document include: • minimal documentation requirements, • minimal analysis and modeling that should accompany any subsea capping stack design, • competencies of personnel who operate, maintain, and test subsea capping stacks, and • potential unknowns/risks that may be encountered with incident wells that impact the use of a subsea capping stack and relevant contingency procedures. While it is not wi