1.1 Purpose

WOODCO USA presents this catalog to provide useful information about WOODCO USA Blowout Preventer Lifting Equipment. It describes the application, designates the applicable specification and reference standard, indicates the material specification, and provides a quality statement.

Lifting Plates and Flanges provide a safe and convenient way to lift individual Blowout Preventers to assemble stacks, and then lift entire stacks using these same Lifting Plates to make efficient installation of the stack to the wellhead.

  1.3 Reference Standards

The design of WOODCO USA Lifting Plates meets or exceeds requirements stipulated in API Spec 8A for Drilling and Production Hoisting Equipment. The design permits the use of standard shackles and lifting equipment currently available and commonly used. Lifting plates also meet or exceed requirements for lifting devices as stipulated in API Spec 17D, Subsea Wellhead and Christmas Tree Equipment.

API Spec 8A
API Spec 17D
ASTM A320 GR-L7
ASTM A194 GR-2H

1.4 Material

WOODCO USA manufactures Lifting Equipment from material selected and inspected for this purpose.

Users should specify any temperature service requirement below -20° C(-4° F).

1.5 Quality

WOODCO USA defines "Product Quality" as conformance to specified requirements. We select suppliers on the basis of their ability to provide materials, products and/or services which conform to WOODCO USA and industry specifications. All individual units of Lifting Equipment must pass inspections during and after production, and all individual units must pass a final magnetic particle examination.

WOODCO USA offers, as an option, load testing of Lifting Equipment to 1.5 times rated capacity.

Users may have confidence that units will always support the rated capacity.

Caution:
Users should never perform field welding on any portion of Lifting Equipment. Field welding may crack or otherwise degrade the properties of the material. For other cautions and recommendations for in-service field inspections, see API RP 8B.