CorrMagnet provides consulting services, develops software products, and conducts training programs to control corrosion of oil and gas industry infrastructures.

Pipeline Integrity Management

CorrMagnet's continuing education program is accredited by the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC).

This unique online course presents methodologies and tools to effectively and economically manage integrity of oil and gas industry's production, transmission, storage, and distribution infrastructures. It describes various risk assessment tools including direct assessment (DA), risk- based inspection (RBI), inline inspection (ILI), and hydrotesting as well as regulatory requirements in Canada and the USA on pipeline integrity management. The course also describes tools to perform cost-benefit analysis (CBA).

Who should attend?

  • All who are interested in pipeline integrity management (PIM)
  • New corrosion professionals in the oil and gas industry
  • Experienced non-corrosion professionals in the oil and gas industry.
  • All who want to earn Professional Development Hours (PDH) and Continuing Education Units (CDU)
    • Engineers and technical persons generally need certain number of PDH and CDU to maintain their professional degrees
    • CorrMagnet is one of the EIC's Quality Learning Providers.

Fee includes

  • "Corrosion Control in the Oil and Gas Industry", S. Papavinasam, Elsevier (2013), eBook ISBN: 9780123973061, 1,020 pages.
  • PDF version of technical presentations
  • 1-year access to the recording of the presentations and discussions.
  • Registration of Continuing Education Unit (CEU) with EIC
    • CEU can assist professionals in maintaining their license
    • 1 CEU is equivalent to 10 professional development hours (PDH).

Course Discussion schedule (See Events page for a particular course schedule)

  • Monday to Friday
  • 30 minutes per day.
  • Course hours indicated in the Events page are in Eastern Time Zone (New York Time Zone). To calculate the course hours in your time zone,
    click: timeanddate.com

Learning outcome

Upon completion of the course the participants will be able to:

  • Understand various integrity management tools including DA and RBI
  • Perform qualitative, quantitative, and semi-quantitative risk analysis
  • Select appropriate risk mitigation tools and service providers
  • Establish data, personnel, and tools required to perform integrity management
  • Determine optimal risk mitigation strategies (repair vs replace)
  • Carry-out cost-benefit analysis (CBA)
  • Articulate optimal solutions to senior management and other stakeholders.
  • Receive official record of their earned CEU and PDH.

End of course evaluation

  • Assignment written by participants using actual field data
  • Ability of participants to identify and collect data.
  • Ontime submission of assignment (Assignments are due within 30-days from the completion of the course).

Course contents

Day

Theme

Topic

Description

1

Context of PIM

Overview and history
  • Description of the context of PIM in various pipeline sectors considering overview of the infrastructure, history, and cost
  • Description of various standards, best practices, and regulations on PIM.

Corrosion Cost

Regulation

2

Maintenance

Human resources
  • Description of the importance of human resources, data, and communication for effective implementation of integrity management program.

Data

Communication

3

Management

Risk assessment
  • Description of various tools to assess risk including DA, RBI, ILI, and hydrotesting
  • Description of methods to perform cost- benefit analysis.

Risk control

Cost-benefit analysis

4

Activities of PIM

Internal corrosion control

  • Description of various activities in PIM as well as roles of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) in PIM.

External corrosion control

Integrity management

5

Case studies*

Production pipeline
  • Description of three case studies on the implementation of PIM

Transmition pipeline

Product pipeline
*May be presented by owner/operator.

Course fee

Category Fee, US $ (includes 5 % GST)/participant/course Action
Regular registration 1,044.75 Register
Early bird registration (One month before class starts) 992.25 Register
Special registration (Book is not included) 199.50 Register
Private Course registration 0 Register

Registration deadlines

  • Regular registration form should be received by CorrMagnet Consulting Inc., at least one week prior to the start of first class of the course
  • Early bird registration form should be received by CorrMagnet Consulting Inc., at least one month prior to the start of first class of the course.

Withdrawal and cancellation policies

  • Withdrawal request must be submitted by email to: office@corrmagnet.com at least one week prior to the commencement of first class of the course. All refunds are subject to an administration fee of US $50.
  • No refund of registration fee after the course has started.

System Requirements

  • Minimum system requirements for participating the "online training" are described in the following sections.

Internet Connection

  • High-Speed Connection (LAN, DSL, cable) preferred, minimum 512 Kbps during peak usage.

Audio

  • Computer must be equipped with a soundcard.

Communication Hardware

  • Option 1 (preferred): Headset or Headphones.
  • Option 2: Speakers connected to your computer.

Operating System

  • Computer must be equipped with a soundcard
    • or
  • Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6, 10.7.4, 10.8.

Web Browser

  • Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher
  • Mozilla Firefox 2.0
  • Google Chrome
  • Safari 2.x

Additional requirements

  • Adobe Flash Player 10.3 or higher .
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