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The oil and gas activities in the US are regulated by the governmental organisation Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, BSEE (previously Mineral Management Service, MMS and for a short period, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, BOEMRE). In general, these have relied heavily on recommended practices by the American Petroleum Institute (API).

API issued in 1969 its first recommended practice of RP‐2A for the design of offshore structures (API 1969), with the first set of design procedures for the offshore industry. This recommended practice has been continuously updated since with respect to wave criteria (e.g. moving from a 25‐year criterion to a 100‐year return period) and design formulae for tubular joints.

The 22nd edition of API RP‐2A (API 2014a), issued in 2014, saw the introduction of a supplement named API RP‐2SIM (API 2014b) aimed at structural integrity management, which addressed the ongoing integrity management of the structures, an increasingly important matter. In 2019 API in addition published recommended practises on the integrity management of floating systems API RP‐2FSIM (API 2019a) and mooring systems API RP‐2MIM (API 2019b).