This standard is identical to ISO 14693, Petroleum and natural gas industries-Drilling and well-servicing equipment.

Specification 7K 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 this International Standard.

This International Standard 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.