This recommended practice describes practices for the evaluation of elastomeric seal materials and seal designs for the oil and gas industry for wellhead and tree applications. It can also serve as a general guideline for elastomer materials or elastomer seal members used for other applications, which have similar material and application issues.
It is the intent of this document to provide an overview of testing criteria, environments, evaluation procedures, and guidelines for methods used to evaluate elastomeric seal materials and members.
It is not within the scope of this document to offer any correlation between the data obtained from a screening test and the actual service performance of the seal member.
