Course Description

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-theart simulators. This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of welding of pipelines and related facilities in accordance with API 1104 standards. It covers the specifications, equipment and materials; the qualification of welding procedures with filler metal additions; the welding procedure specification, welding of test joints-butt welds and testing of welded joints-butt welds; the welding of test joints-branch and fillet welds and testing of welded joints-branch and fillet welds; the qualification of welders; and the visual examination, destructive testing and nondestructive testing (NDT)-butt welds only. Further, the course will also discuss the retesting and disposition of test results; the design and preparation of a joint for production welding; the use of lineup clamp for butt welds, cleaning between beads, position and roll welding; the preheat, interpass temperature, postheat and PWHT; the inspection and testing of production welds; the qualification and certification of inspection personnel; and the acceptance standards for NDT. link to course overview PDF

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total tuition hours

30 % Lectures
20 % Workshops & Work Presentations
20 % Case Studies & Practical Exercises
30 % Videos, Software & Simulators

In an unlikely event, the course instructor may modify the above training methodology before or during the course for technical reasons.

VIRTUAL TRAINING (IF APPLICABLE)

If this course is delivered online as a Virtual Training, the following limitations will be applicable

Certificates	:	Only soft copy certificates will be issued to participants through Haward’s Portal. This includes Wallet Card Certificates if applicable
Training Materials	:	Only soft copy Training Materials (PDF format) will be issued to participant through the Virtual Training Platform
Training Methodology	:	80% of the program will be theory and 20% will be practical sessions, exercises, case studies, simulators or videos
Training Program	:	The training will be for 4 hours per day starting at 09:30 and ending at 13:30
H-STK Smart Training Kit	:	Not Applicable
Hands-on Practical Workshops	:	Not Applicable
Site Visit	:	Not Applicable
Simulators	:	Only software simulators will be used in the virtual courses. Hardware simulators are not applicable and will not be used in Virtual Training