Course Description

This practical and highly-interactive course includes practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators. Pipeline Integrity Management is the process of managing pipeline operational risk and mitigating it effectively to ensure pipeline assets are maintained in safe and reliable condition. Pipelines generally constitute a single point failure for any facility which can often result in serious safety, environmental and business consequences once loss of containment has occurred. By monitoring the condition of the pipeline, the likelihood of an unplanned failure/shutdown of the pipeline can be prevented. Understanding the condition of the pipeline can also help to improve the planning of pipeline maintenance and inspection activities by identifying key activities in advance to allow the appropriate budgets to be implemented and reduce the amount of spending associated with unplanned activities. The course will provide participants the best practices on how to manage gathered data from various inspection techniques and apply them in modelling the potential failures. It will also teach attendees on how to optimize the inspection and maintenance resources to develop a comprehensive integrity management program covering both pipelines and their associated facilities. The necessary elements of such a program are described in detail with examples of typical program content including an overarching view of where detailed risk analysis and defect assessment fits in the program. Finally, the course will review the various repair techniques, their advantages and shortcomings and the logic to be followed in making repair decisions and selecting the applicable repair. In addition, pressure testing will be studied, including an exercise based on an actual hydrostatic pressure test.

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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