This standard recommended practice presents corrosion inhibition, wear reduction, and corrosion prevention techniques for use from the manufacturing of bare steel sucker rods and couplings through installation and service in the well. Although aluminum, fiberglass, coated sucker rods, and high-alloy sucker rods are not specifically addressed in this standard, many recommendations contained herein may be applied to such sucker rods, as appropriate, at the user's discretion. Throughout this standard the words "sucker rod" or "rod" will be used in the above-described context.

This standard was originally prepared as NACE Publication 1D167 by NACE Task Group T-1D-3 for inclusion in API(Footnote 1) RP 11BR. Beginning in 1988, it was updated for the revision of API RP 11BR by NACE Task Group T-1D-35, a component of Unit Committee T-1D on Corrosion Monitoring and Control of Corrosion Environments in Petroleum Production Operations, for conversion to a recommended practice, and this standard was originally issued in 1995. This standard was also balloted to and approved by API as Section 3 of API RP 11BR.(Footnote 2) It was reaffirmed in 2001 by Specific Technology Group (STG) 31 on Oil and Gas Production - Corrosion and Scale Inhibition and is issued by NACE International under the auspices of STG 31.

Footnote 1 - American Petroleum Institute (API), 1220 L Street NW, Washington, DC 20005.

Footnote 2 - This standard was developed by members of NACE International and the American Petroleum Institute (1220 L Street NW, Washington, DC 20005, phone: 202/682-8000, fax: 202/682-8030). This standard also is part of API Publication RP 11BR, "Recommended Practice for Care and Handling of Sucker Rods," which can be obtained from API.