API Spec Q1 and Q2 Set

API Spec Q1:

API’s new edition of Specification Q1, Specification for Quality Management System Requirements for Manufacturing Organizations for the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industry, efficiently meets industry demands for an improved quality management system among manufacturing organizations. The new edition of Spec Q1 contains 85+ new requirements and 5 new sections. Additional advantages of the new edition include an extended one-year implementation period; correlation charts highlighting differences between the 8th and 9th Editions; and close alignment with API Spec Q2 in order to facilitate quality requirements for organizations that have both Q1 and Q2 operations.

API Spec Q2:

This document defines the quality management system requirements for service supply organizations for the petroleum, and natural gas industries. It is intended to apply to the execution of services during exploration, development and production in the oil and gas industry. This includes activities involved in upstream oil and gas well construction, intervention, production, and abandonment. This document applies to activities associated with well servicing, equipment repair/maintenance, and inspection activities.

This document specifies requirements of a quality management system for an organization to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide services that meet customer, legal, and other applicable requirements.

This document was developed by a group of upstream technical experts. While this document and/or portions thereof could be applicable to other industry segments, it is recommended that other segments carefully review these requirements to determine their applicability and if necessary develop a segment annex identifying any segment-specific requirements.