About API Spec Q2

Spec. Q2 is a quality management system specification that applies to the execution of service for supply organizations in the petroleum and natural gas industries. While Spec Q2 parallels most of the clauses shown in API Spec Q1, it is significantly different in that its focus is on avoiding, eliminating and/or treating risk during the performance of service with or without the use of service-related product.

While both Q1 and Q2 have criteria for critical purchases, Q2’s requirements are more stringent, and criticality apply to other topics as well. Additionally, Spec Q2 works well with organizations that have global service centers and a headquarters location that manufactures service-related product under API Product Specifications and Spec Q1 or under an ISO 9001 quality management system.

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Where does Q2 Apply?

Service-related activities at the oil and gas well:

• At the customer’s site
• Production
• Construction
• Intervention
• Abandonment

At the service center related to service-related product:

• Repair
• Maintenance
• Configuration

Other activities such as:

• Inspection and testing
• Maintenance
• Redress
• Makeup
• Testing

What is a service-related product?

Materials, equipment, and software required for the execution of a service are considered service-related products.

We’ll cover how to identify your service-related product (equipment, kits, spares, consumables, tools); and criticality and how the word “critical” is applied to spare parts, service-related product, service, supplier, success factor.

Learning Objectives

Knowledge

• The need for international standardization
• Industry incidents, risk, and causation
•  The industry’s need for API Spec Q2
• How the implementation of an API Spec Q2 quality management system can avoid, eliminate, and/or mitigate potential risks to your business and to the industry
• Standardizing and improving customers’ expectations for the execution of service, including the use of service-related product

Comprehension

• Understanding service-related product
• Brainstorm supply chain evaluation methods (Q1 vs. Q2)
• Understanding Risk Associated With Testing, Measuring, Monitoring, and Detection Equipment (TMMDE)

Application

• Reviewing industry events, including the drivers that led to the development of API Spec Q2
• Reviewing real-life reporting dealing with nonproductive time in the drilling and service sectors
• Understanding how to integrate past lessons learned into your service center activities, including your Preventive Maintenance, Inspection and Test Program (PMITP)

Analysis

• How to integrate quality objectives, key performance indicators, and critical success factors into your QMS and service offering

Synthesis

• How to build a successful service quality plan

Evaluation

• Apply the knowledge gained from the course through the completion of the final exam

Course Preparation

You will need the following documents for the course:

• An electronic copy of API Spec Q2, 2nd Edition, Quality Management System Requirements for Service Supply Organizations for the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries
• Your laptop or similar electronic device so you can review course materials and take notes.

Practical Experience

Learn from instructors who have practical experience in the business. QSI has been working with oil and gas industry service companies since 2005, reducing nonproductive time for both the service companies and operators.

Course Participation

The course will be held in an open-discussion format. Course participation is an important element of this training; you will not be graded in class participation, but doing so helps in your learning of the course material, as well as the other attendees in the course. Where you may have insight, others may not, and vice versa. This training course is designed to be interactive and includes class exercises, case studies, and discussions. Some of the teaching methods in this course may require you to work in groups, allowing you to analyze the topic at hand from different perspectives.

Integrity & Notice of Rights

The learning materials developed for this class are specifically created to enhance your understanding and applicability of the materials presented.  These learning materials are created by QSI and are protected by copyright.  As such, these materials are only to be used for your own education. It is illegal to copy these materials, distribute copies of these materials, and/or to prepare derivative works based on these materials without the expressed, written consent of QSI.