ISO International Standard

ISO 14693:2003 provides general principles and specifies requirements for design, manufacture and testing of new drilling and well-servicing equipment and of replacement primary load-carrying components manufactured subsequent to the publication of ISO 14693:2003.

ISO 14693:2003 is applicable to the following equipment:

— rotary tables;

— rotary bushings;

— rotary slips;

— rotary hoses;

— piston mud-pump components;

— drawworks components;

— spiders not capable of use as elevators;

— manual tongs;

— safety clamps not used as hoisting devices;

— power tongs, including spinning wrenches.

Annex A gives a number of standardized supplementary requirements which apply only when specified.