Diploma in Oil and Gas Engineering

COURSE CONTENTS

CODES & STANDARDS

Familiarization of different codes and standards used in Oil and Gas Industry and Petrochemical Industry.

• ASME Boiler And Pressure Vessel Code
• ASME Section I: Power Boilers
• ASME Section II: Materials
• ASME Section III: Nuclear Power Plant Components
• ASME Section V: Nondestructive Examination
• ASME Section VIII: Pressure Vessels
• ASME Section IX: Welding And Brazing Qualifications
• ASME Section XI: Rules For In-Service Inspection Of Nuclear Power
• Plant Components
• ASME B31.1: Power Piping Code
• ASME B31.3: Process Piping
• ASME B31.4: Liquid Transportation Systems For Hydrocarbons
• ASME B31.5: Refrigeration Piping
• ASME B31.8: Gas Transmission And Distribution Piping Systems
• AWS, ANSI, API, ASTM Codes and Specifications

 

MATERIAL INSPECTION & EVALUATION

• Inspection of Material based on ASME Sec II
• Types of Materials
• Material Classifications
• Material Test Certificate Verification
• PMI Testing
• Documentation

PIPING INSPECTION & IN-SERVICE INSPECTION OF PIPING

The Piping and Mechanical Quality Control Inspector offers On site knowledge in quality control and assurance related to all piping activities performed. Responsibilities include conducting routine inspections to ensure code, testing, and material compliance of services and products and the standard of strike’s Quality Management System.

Piping Inservice Inspection Code is an inspection code developed and published by the American Petroleum Institute (API). The inspection code covers in-service inspection, rating repair, and alteration of metallic and fiberglass-reinforced plastic (FRP) piping systems and their respective pressure relieving devices.

Duties & Responsibilities of Piping Inspector

• Safety
• Piping Components & Fittings (Types of Valves, Elbows, Flanges, Tees etc)
• Elbow centre calculations, Thickness calculations
• Isometric Drawings (Interpretation, Fabrication and Inspection based on drawings)
• P & ID Drawings (Interpretation and Inspection)
• Inservice Piping Inspection based on API 570 (Inservice Classifications, Damage mechanisms in Piping, Inspection of Buried piping, Inservice repairs, Permanent and Temporary repairs, Piping Classifications, Remaining Life calculations)

• MAWP Calculation (Calculations based on Bar Lo Equation)
• Piping Thickness Calculation’s (Based on ASME B 31.3)
• Pressure Testing (Pneumatic, Hydrostatic calculations)
• Calculations based on ASME B 31.3 (Impact Test requirements, Thermal expansion calculations etc)
• Calculations based on ASME 16.5 (Flange Selection, Pound rating calculations, Flange Dimension’s etc)
• Documentation

STRUCTURAL INSPECTION

A structural engineer inspection is typically a visual inspection performed by a structural engineer to validate the structural soundness of a home or building’s weight bearing components such as framing, foundation, beams, columns, posts, or trusses. The fundamental purpose of structural inspections is to confirm that an existing building or structures under consideration is safe for continued use under present service conditions.

Material specifications, design assumptions.

• Wind load calculations
• Sesimic load calculations.
• Design summary plan, elevations, plat form plans frame cross section, frame reaction, canopy plan, crane plan, fabrication & erection drawings
• Steel structure fire proofings
• Base plate & anchor rod design
• Specification & ITPS
• Specification for steel design, fabrication & erection
• Verification of document and IFC drawings
• Preparation of foundations
• Construction work on structural steels
• Release of foundation, anchor bolts, prior to steel erection
• Shim plate installation
• Erection of main connection /sub connection /Bracings
• Specification for painting general requirements ITP for steel structure errection
• Alignment, level, plumbness and elevation
• Anchor bolt snug tight/Turn of-nut method
• Bolt tightening procedure
• Grouting verification and comprehensive strength, touch up & paint application
• Protection of galvanized structural steel
• Allowable tolerance bolting structural steels
• Expansion joined slotting holes
• Acceptance criteria for inspection

EQUIPMENT INSPECTION

STATIC EQUIPMENT

Oil and gas static equipment comprise valves, boilers, furnaces, heat exchangers, and others. Oil and gas
rotating equipment comprise turbines, pumps, compressors, and others. The equipment has a detailed design, installation, testing and maintenance.

• Shop Fabricated Tank & Vessel Installation
• Heat Exchanger Installation Inspection
• Final Vessel Closure
• Special Equipment Inspection
• Auxiliary Equipment Index Miscellaneous Items
• Fired Heater Installation Inspection
• Fired Boiler Inspection
• Storage Tank Inspection
• Heat Exchanger Installation Inspection

ROTATING EQUIPMENT

Rotating Equipment is a common classification of mechanical components used to add kinetic energy to any process in order to make a material move. The equipment may include pumps, turbines, gearboxes, compressors, engines, etc. The equipment has a detailed design, installation, testing and maintenance.

• Equipment Protection, Preservation & Equipment
• Alignment Inspection
• Equipment Flange Alignment
• Compressor Inspection
• Pump Inspection
• Fan & Blower Inspection
• Electrical Motor Inspection
• Centrifugal Compressor
• Gear Box • Pump Motor Running Test
• Centrifugal Separator Static Test
• Compressor Running
• Coupling Alignment
• Centrifugal Separator

WELDING INSPECTION / WPS / WQT QUALIFICATIONS

Weld quality assurance is the use of technological methods and actions to test or assure the quality of welds, and secondarily to confirm the presence, location and coverage of welds. Welding Inspector ensures the quality of the weld through inspection at various stages.
A Welding Procedure Specification (WPS) is the formal written document describing welding procedures, which provides direction to the welder or welding operators for making sound and quality production welds as per the code requirements. The purpose of the document is to guide welders to the accepted procedures so that repeatable and trusted welding techniques are used. A WPS is developed for each material alloy and for each welding type used. Specific codes and/or engineering societies are often the driving force behind the development of a company’s WPS. A WPS is supported by a Procedure Qualification Record (PQR or WPQR). A PQR is a record of a test weld performed and tested (more rigorously) to ensure that the procedure will produce a good weld. Individual welders are certified with a qualification test documented in a Welder Qualification Test Record (WQTR) that shows they have the understanding and demonstrated ability to work within the specified WPS.

• Codes & Standards
• Duties of Welding Inspector
• Welding & Cutting Process (SMAW, GMAW, FCAW, GTAW, SAW / OFC, CAC-A, PC)
• Welding Symbols (Types of Joints, Butt weld symbols and different joint Identifications)
• Welding Metallurgy (Iron Carbon diagram, Phase changes during welding, Metallurgical considerations, Types of alloying, Sensitization)
• Types of Heating (Pre-heating, Interpass Heating, Post Heating & PWHT)
• Welding Defects (Types of Cracks, Incomplete Fusion, Porosity, Underfill, Arc Strike etc)
• Inspection Methods (Bridge Cam gauge, Undercut Gauge, Fillet weld Gauge etc)
• Inspection Methods
• (Bridge Cam gauge, Undercut Gauge, Fillet weld Gauge etc)
• Welding Procedure Qualifications
• Welder Qualifications
• Documentation

NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING (NDT)

MAGNETIC PARTICLE TESTING

Magnetic Particle Inspection (MPI) is a Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) process for detecting surface and shallow subsurface discontinuities in ferromagnetic materials and their alloys. The process puts a magnetic field into the part to find out the imperfection.

• Basic Principle of Magnetic Particle Testing
• Principles of magnets and magnetic fields
• Characteristics of magnetic fields
• Magnetic Particle Testing Equipments
• Inspection Materials
• Types of Magnetization
• Types of Magnetic Particle Testing
• Selection of proper method of Magnetization
• Types of Magnetic Powders
• Demagnetization
• Technique/Calibrations
• Safety
• Practicals/Hands on Training

LIQUID PENETRANT TESTING

Dye Penetrant Inspection (DP), also called Liquid Penetrate Inspection (LPI) or penetrant testing (PT), is a widely applied and low-cost inspection method used to check surface-breaking defects in all non-porous materials (metals, plastics, or ceramics)

• Principles of Liquid Penetrant Process
• Liquid Penetrant Processing
• Equipments /Materials Required
• Types of Penetrant Testing
• Types of Developers
• Methods of Measurement
• Lightning requirements for Penetrant Testing
• Factors affecting the Indications
• Testing and Maintenance of Materials
• Types of Indications from Discontinuities
• Relevant and Non-Relevant Indications
• Codes / Standards & Specifications
• Interpretation/Evaluation
• Safety
• Documentation
• Practicals/Hands on Training

PRESSURE TESTING

• Hydrostatic Test
• Pneumatic Test
• Calculations
• Pipework Pre-Test Checklist
• Hydrostatic Test Report
• Pipework Post Test Check List

COATING INSPECTION

A coating inspector checks industrial equipment to ensure protective coatings were correctly applied and minimize corrosion risk. They go through rigorous training to learn how to identify problems in coating applications and to suggest which types of coatings will protect the materials from corroding. Manufacturing plants, roadway projects such as bridges, and other major industries that utilize paint need coating inspectors for quality assurance.

 

• Corrosion basics (Types of corrosion, Galvanic Series, Methods of Protection, Corrosion Effects)
• Environmental Testing (Surface Temperature, Dew Point, RH Calculations and its Acceptance criteria)
• Surface Preparation (Types preparation, NACE, ISO, SSPC standards)
• Types of Blasting (Dry grit abrasive blasting, Centrifugal blasting, Water blasting, Water jetting)
• Types of Abrasives (Abrasive selection criteria, Abrasive replenishment, Sieve Analysis, Vial Test etc)
• Coating Fundamentals (Paint Ingredients, Modes of protection, VOC etc)
• Coating Application (Conventional, Air Assisted Airless, Plural Component, Airless application etc)
• WFT & DFT Calculations
• Coating Defects (Blushing, Blister, Delamination, Sagging, Voids etc)
• Types of Linings (Types of Liquid Applied Linings, Surface Preparation, Coating Application etc)
• Pipeline Coatings (FBE Coatings, Epoxy Coatings, Concrete Coatings, Surface Preparation, Coating Application, Field joint coatings etc)
• Special Coating Process (Antifouling Coatings, Heat Resistant coatings etc)
• Galvanizing (Hot Dip Galvanizing, Surface Preparation, Coating Application, Inspection etc)
• WFT & DFT Calculations
• Documentation

MECHANICAL ERECTION

DOCUMENTATION

• Non-Conformance Report
• Fit Up Report
• Weld Visual Inspection Report
• Spool Fabrication Report (Daily/Weekly)
• Dimensional Inspection Report
• Spool Clearance Report
• Spool Cleanliness Report
• Electrode Baking Log
• PWHT Report
• Hardness Report
• PMI Inspection Report
• Material Identification Report
• Hydro Test Report
• Ferrite Measurement Report
• NDT Request
• Visual Inspection Report
• Liquid Penetrant Inspection Report
• Magnetic Particle Testing Report
• Ultrasonic Inspection Report
• Radiographic Inspection Report
• Paint Storage Report
• Environmental Testing Report
• Surface Profile Inspection Report
• Surface Contamination Test Report
• DFT Report
• Coating Summary Reports