Scope
This document provides requirements and guidelines for the design of thread form requirements, steel sucker rods and pony rods, fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) sucker rods and pony rods, sinker bars, polished rods, couplings and sub-couplings, thread gauges, pumping tees, stuffing boxes, polished rod clamps, calibration of measuring equipment, standard methods of mechanical properties testing, and polished rod liners as defined herein for use in the sucker rod lift method for the petroleum and natural gas industry.
The document does not cover sucker rod guides, sucker rod rotators, shear tools, on-off tools, stabilizer bars, sealing elements used in stuffing boxes, or interface connections for stuffing boxes and pumping tees. Also, installation, operation and maintenance of these products are not included in this specification.
This document supplements API Spec 11B, 28th edition (2023), the requirements of which are applicable with the exceptions specified in this document.
Comment by: