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.

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TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies:

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 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
Training Materials	:	Only soft copy materials will be issued
Training Methodology	:	80% theory, 20% practical
Training Program	:	4 hours per day, from 09:30 to 13:30