Many foreigners, when dealing with Russia in thr 90s and on, and even today are under the very big misimpression that Russia has no government standards that its business operates under and thus the foreign business is free to do as it pleases.
This, of course, could not be further from the truth. Since 1925, Russia has been operating under GOST (Government Standard)...yes, those latin words do translate that close. GOST is a set of standards that covers everything from food preparation to building construction to wire manufacturing. At present they are undergoing their biggest review since their inception with several thousand outdated standards being removed or heavily redacted.
This is a very thick series of standards that cover all manufacturing of any and all products or product categories. Companies are allowed to make technical exceptions to GOST but these must be approved by the appropriate GOST committees and can not be weaker than the existing standards. GOST has been translated into English and is available online.
I have heard numerous times that Gazprom, Rusneft or some other entity has agreed to API standarsa whicg is why we are producing in API instead of GOST. But here is the key, they agree to exploit (use) the API standard project NOT accept it for exploitation. Acceptance or completed projects is conducted by Rostecnadzor (Russian Technological Supervision) which is the government agency that must sign off before a project is completed and accepted, and they work exclusively in GOST.
Now, however, if you are manufacturing for exportation out of Russia and not into another nation adhering to GOST, you can manufacture to whatever standards you wish.
This, of course, could not be further from the truth. Since 1925, Russia has been operating under GOST (Government Standard)...yes, those latin words do translate that close. GOST is a set of standards that covers everything from food preparation to building construction to wire manufacturing. At present they are undergoing their biggest review since their inception with several thousand outdated standards being removed or heavily redacted.
This is a very thick series of standards that cover all manufacturing of any and all products or product categories. Companies are allowed to make technical exceptions to GOST but these must be approved by the appropriate GOST committees and can not be weaker than the existing standards. GOST has been translated into English and is available online.
I have heard numerous times that Gazprom, Rusneft or some other entity has agreed to API standarsa whicg is why we are producing in API instead of GOST. But here is the key, they agree to exploit (use) the API standard project NOT accept it for exploitation. Acceptance or completed projects is conducted by Rostecnadzor (Russian Technological Supervision) which is the government agency that must sign off before a project is completed and accepted, and they work exclusively in GOST.
Now, however, if you are manufacturing for exportation out of Russia and not into another nation adhering to GOST, you can manufacture to whatever standards you wish.
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