API RP 17N provides a structured approach which organizations can adopt to manage risk and uncertaintiesrelated to reliability and integrity performance throughout the life of a project. This may rangefrom the management of general project risk through to the identification and removal of potential failuremodes in particular equipment. The basic approach is simple and consistent, and when applied correctlyhas the potential to greatly reduce the financial risk of designing, manufacturing, installing and operatingsubsea equipment and/or systems. This paper presents the principals and approaches used in API 17N,what it is in general, and why it was written. It will describe the status of its update, including the reasonsfor the revision and the addition of Integrity Management. It will not cover the detail of the RP, but insteadit will describe the underlying paradigm and key processes and how it is being written to facilitate andenable wider application to other technical disciplines. Finally the paper will outline its relationship toother API documents, standards and industry initiatives and what we have learnt from the recent events.
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