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Quick reference guides covering standards comparison, payment terms, inspection procedures, procurement documentation, and how-to guides for EPC projects.

Advance Payment in Export: Pros and Cons
API 594 vs API 6D: Check Valve Standards
API 598 vs ISO 5208
API 5L vs ASTM A106
API 600 vs BS 1414: Gate Valve Standards
API 602 vs ASME B16.34
API 607 vs API 6FA: Fire Test Standards
API 6A vs ASME B16.5
ASME B16.11 vs B16.9
ASME B16.5 vs B16.47: Flange Size Limits
ASME B16.9 vs B16.28
ASME B31.1 vs B31.3 vs B31.4
ASME B31.1 vs B31.3
ASME Section IX vs AWS D1.1
Bank Guarantee vs Letter of Credit
CAD Payment Terms: Cash Against Documents
CE Marking vs ASME Certification
Certificate of Compliance vs MTC
CIF vs FOB: Shipping Terms Compared
What Is Cold Springing (Cold Pull)?
Common P&ID Symbols
EN 10204 3.1 vs 3.2
EN 10204 2.1 vs 2.2 vs 3.1 vs 3.2
Flange Bolt Tightening Sequence
What Is Free Draining Piping?
What Is a Golden Joint?
Heat Number Traceability in MTCs
How to Calibrate a Pressure Gauge
How to Hydrotest a Pipeline: Procedure
How to Install a Check Valve: Orientation
How to Install a Flange
How to Install a Gasket: Best Practices
How to Install a Steam Trap
How to Interpret Radiography Results
How to Lap a Valve Seat: Reconditioning
How to Perform Cold Cutting: Safe Methods
How to Perform Hot Bolting: Live Repair
How to Perform a Leak Test: Methods
How to Perform PMI Testing: Field Methods
How to Perform a Stroke Test
How to Perform Valve Maintenance
How to Verify a Mill Test Certificate
How to Repack a Valve: Gland Packing
How to Set a Relief Valve
How to Size and Install a Strainer
How to Torque Flange Bolts: Procedure
HS Code for Flanges and Gaskets
HS Code for Pipes and Fittings
Incoterms 2020 and Payment Terms
ISO 9001 vs API Q1: Quality Management
LC Payment Terms
Manufacturer Data Report (MDR)
Material Test Certificate vs MTC
Mill Certificate Sample: What to Check
What Is Moment of Inertia?
MSS SP-43 vs ASME B16.9
ASME B16.9 vs MSS SP-75
MSS SP-97 vs MSS SP-95
MTC 3.1 vs 3.2 Certificate
MTC for Carbon Steel Pipes: Key Values
MTC Full Form
MTC Requirements for Piping Materials
MTC for Stainless Steel: What to Verify
NACE MR0175 vs ISO 15156: Sour Service
Open Account Payment Terms
Payment Milestones in EPC Projects
Payment Terms for Equipment Procurement
PED vs ASME Stamp
Pipe Class vs Pipe Spec: Key Differences
Pipe Isometric Drawing
Pipe Support Span Chart
What Is Pipeline Stopple?
What Is a Piping Manifold? Header Design
What Is Piping Slope?
What Is Piping Tie-In?
PMI Testing vs MTC Verification
PSIA vs PSIG: Pressure Units Explained
What Is Reynolds Number?
RFQ vs RFP
What Is Small Bore Piping?
Stress Intensification Factor (SIF)
What Is Stub-In Connection?
Third Party Inspection Certificate
TT Payment Terms in International Trade
TT vs LC vs CAD
Types of Pipe Supports
Von Mises Stress: Theory and Application
What Are Incoterms?
What Is API 570? Piping Inspection Code
What Is API 574?
What Is ASME B31.1? Power Piping Code
What Is ASME B31.3? Process Piping Code
What Is AUT? Automated Ultrasonic Testing
What Is a Battery Limit? Plant Boundaries
What Is Bend Testing? Weld Qualification
What Is a Bill of Lading?
What Is a Cause and Effect Diagram?
What Is a CBE? Commercial Bid Evaluation
What Is CFR? Cost and Freight Term
What Is Commissioning?
What Is Confined Space Entry?
What Is a Data Book? Vendor Documentation
What Is DDP vs DAP? Incoterms Comparison
What Is Design Pressure?
What Is Design Temperature?
What Is a Detail Drawing? Fabrication
What Is Eddy Current Testing (ET)?
What Is an Elevation Drawing?
What Is an Expansion Loop?
What Is Expediting? Order Follow-Up
What Is EXW? Ex Works Shipping Term
What Is FAT? Factory Acceptance Test
What Is Ferrite Testing?
What Is Fluid Category? ASME B31.3
What Is FOB? Free on Board Shipping Term
What Is General Arrangement? GA Drawing
What Is Hardness Testing?
What Is HAZOP?
What Is Hot Commissioning?
What Is Hot Work Permit? Welding Safety
What Is Hydrotest Pressure? Calculation
What Is Impact Testing?
What Is Interpass Temperature?
What Is ITP? Inspection and Test Plan
What Is LC? Letter of Credit Payment
What Is Line Designation?
What Is a Line List? Piping Index
What Is Liquid Penetrant Testing (PT)?
What Is an LOI? Letter of Intent
What Is LOTO? Lockout Tagout Procedures
What Is Lost Time Injury (LTI)?
What Is Macro Examination?
Magnetic Particle Testing (MT)
What Is MAWP?
What Is MC Certificate?
What Is an MRQ? Material Requisition
Mill Test Certificate (MTC)
What Is an MTO?
What Is a Permit to Work (PTW)?
What Is Phased Array UT?
What Is a P&ID?
What Is a Pipe Class?
What Is Pipe Flexibility? Expansion Loops
What Is a Piping Class Index?
What Is a Piping Diagram? Types Explained
What Is a Piping Plan? Layout Drawing
What Is a Piping Specification?
What Is Plot Plan? Plant Layout
What Is Pneumatic Test? When to Use
What Is a PO? Purchase Order Terms
What Is Pre-Commissioning?
What Is Preheat?
What Is a Punch List?
What Is PWHT? Post-Weld Heat Treatment
What Is Radiographic Testing (RT)?
What Is Red Line Markup?
What Is an RFQ?
What Is RFSU? Ready for Start-Up
What Is SAT? Site Acceptance Test
What Is a Safety Data Sheet (SDS)? MSDS
What Is SIL? Safety Integrity Level
What Is a Spool Drawing?
What Is a Street Elbow?
What Is Stress Analysis?
What Is a TBE? Technical Bid Evaluation
What Is Tensile Testing?
What Is Thermal Expansion? Pipe Growth
What Is a Tie-In List? Interface Schedule
What Is a Tie-Point? Interface Definition
What Is TOFD? Time-of-Flight Diffraction
What Is Ultrasonic Testing (UT)?
What Is a Valve Data Sheet? VDS Explained
What Is a Valve Tag?
What Is Vendor Documentation? MDR and VDR
What Is Visual Testing (VT)?
What Is a Vortex Breaker?