By Carlos F Molina

With this post I am announcing the birth of APIEXAM.COM, a website dedicated to deliver resources to pass the certification examinations of the Individual Certification Programs of the American Petroleum Institute. It is a compendium of the subject that will grow while I study for the exams. For the time being, you will see plain posts about the subject in a blog format, but the idea is that with your help we will be improving the site and increase resources. Welcome.

AN ANALYSIS OF THE SCOPE OF API 653

If you read the first chapter of API 653, you will see it is a standard that covers Inspection, Repair, Alteration, and Reconstruction of steel storage tanks built to API 650 and its predecessor, API 12C. It provides minimum requirements for maintaining the integrity of such tanks after they have been placed in service and addresses inspection, repair, alteration, relocation, and reconstruction. (more…)