The document lists various API standards applicable to rotating equipment across different categories, including pumps, compressors, turbines, gear units, and miscellaneous equipment. Specific standards such as API 610 for centrifugal pumps and API 617 for compressors are highlighted. It serves as a comprehensive guide for industry compliance in petroleum, petrochemical, and gas services.

1. LIST OF API STANDARDS USED
IN ROTATING EQUIPMENT
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2. List of API Standards used for Pumps and Mechanical
Seals
API 610 – Centrifugal Pumps for Petroleum, Petrochemical and Natural
Gas Industries
API 685 – Sealless Centrifugal Pumps for Petroleum, Petrochemical and
Gas Industry Services
API 674 – Positive Displacement Pumps – Reciprocating
API 675 – Positive Displacement Pumps – Controlled Volume
API 676 – Positive Displacement Pumps – Rotary
API 681 – Liquid Ring Vacuum Pumps and Compressors for Petroleum,
Petrochemical and Gas Industry Services
API 682 – Pumps – Shaft Sealing Systems for Centrifugal and Rotary
Pumps in the Petroleum, Natural Gas and Chemical Industries
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3. List of API Standards used for Compressors and Dry
Gas Seals
API 617 – Axial and Centrifugal Compressors, Integrally Geared
Centrifugal Compressors and Expander Compressors
API 618 – Reciprocating Compressors for Petroleum, Chemical and
Gas Industry Services
API 619 – Rotary Type Positive Displacement Compressors for
Petroleum, Petrochemical and Gas Industry Services
API 672 – Packaged Integrally Geared Centrifugal Air Compressors for
Petroleum, Chemical and Gas Industry Services
API 614 – Lubrication, Shaft Sealing and Control Oil Systems and
Auxiliaries
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4. List of API Standards used for Turbines
API 611 – General Purpose Steam Turbines for Petroleum, Chemical
and Gas Industry Services
API 612 – Petroleum, Petrochemical and Natural Gas Industries –
Steam Turbines – Special Purpose Applications
API 616 – Gas Turbines for Petroleum, Chemical and Gas Industry
Services
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5. List of API Standards used for Gear Units and
Couplings
API 613 – Special Purpose Gear Units for Petroleum, Chemical and
Gas Industry Services
API 671 – Special Purpose Couplings for Petroleum, Chemical and Gas
Industry Services
API 677 – General Purpose Gear Units for Petroleum, Chemical and
Gas Industry Services
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6. List of Miscellaneous Rotating Equipment Standards
API 670 – Machinery Protection Systems
API 673 – Centrifugal Fans for Petroleum, Chemical and Gas Industry
Services
API RP 684 – API Standard Paragraphs Rotodynamic Tutorial: Lateral
Critical Speeds, Unbalance Response, Stability, Train Torsionals and
Rotor Balancing
API RP 686 – Machinery Installation and Installation Design
API RP 688 – Pulsation and Vibration Control in Positive Displacement
Machinery Systems for Petroleum, Chemical and Gas Industry Services
API 692 – Dry Gas Sealing Systems for Axial, Centrifugal and Rotary
Screw Compressors and Expanders
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