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

Refinery Corrosion Control

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 control corrosion and related degradations in refineries, oilsands operations, and facilities. It describes various materials, various environmental conditions, and mechanisms by which corrosion and degradations taking place in refineries, oilsands operations, and facilities. It also discusses various documents, diagrams, and best practices required to control corrosion and degradation including Corrosion Control Document (CCD), Process-Flow Diagram (PFD), Materials Selection Diagram (MSD), Integrity Operating Windows (IOW), and Risk-Based Inspection (RBI).

Who should attend?

  • All who are interested in controlling corrosion in the refineries, oilsands operation, and facilities
  • 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 typical components and operations of refineries, oilsands operation, and facilities
  • Identify materials used in various operations
  • Determine damage mechanisms (DM) occurring in a given operating conditions
  • Calculate corrosion rate (CR) or degradation rate (DR) considering various DM
  • Develop Corrosion Control Diagrams (CCD)
  • Establish Corrosion Monitoring Locations (CML)
  • Perform Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) and oversee RBI implementation
  • Create Integrity Operating Windows (IOW).
  • 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 date of completion of the course).

Course contents

Day

Theme

Topic

Description

1

Context

Typical components
  • Description of typical operating units of refineries, oilsands operations, and facilities
  • Description of various standards and best practices on corrosion and degradation control (API and NACE standards).

Materials

Operating conditions

2

Damage mechanisms

Corrosion
  • Description of various damage mechanisms.

High-temperature corrosion

Cracking

Mechanical and metallurgical

3

Monitoring and maintenance

Monitoring and inspection techniques
  • Description of various tools to assess risk including monitoring and inspection techniques
  • Description of methods to decide optimal maintenance strategies.

Risk based inspection

Repair or replace?

4

Documents

Process Flow Diagram (PFD)/ Materials Selection Diagram (MSD)
  • Description of various documents/figures used to analyze, mitigate, monitor, and manage corrosion and degradation conditions.

Corrosion Control Documents (CCD)

Integrity Operating Windows (IOW)

5

Case studies*

Refinery
  • Description of three case studies on corrosion control.

Oilsands Operations

Facilities

*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

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. 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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