International standards · ICS 75 Petroleum and related technologies
API 5L
Specification for Line Pipe
Specification
- Body
- API – American Petroleum Institute
- Current edition
- Check the current edition on the official page
- Field
- Petroleum and related technologies, Metallurgy
- ICS
- 75
Scope & main content
Requirements for manufacturing seamless and welded steel pipe for oil, gas and water transport at product specification levels PSL 1 and PSL 2.
Why it matters for Vietnamese traders
Vietnamese pipe mills need an API 5L licence to export line pipe – a product also frequently subject to trade-remedy investigations.
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