Toggle Menu

The
Onshore Pipeline Engineering Course
Led by Dr. Phil Hopkins and Dr. Roger King
April 17-21, 2023 | Houston

"One of the best courses I have ever taken"
-Nick Montebello, Plains All American Pipeline, LLP

 

Course schedule
Day 1-4:  8am-5pm
Day 5: 8am-1pm

 

This course has won extensive praise as a comprehensive technical review of what a pipeline engineer must know.
Register early - Due to the nature of these courses, we would encourage you to sign up at least two weeks prior to the start of the course. Since our courses are dependent on the number of registered attendees, signing up as early as possible helps to guarantee that the course will go ahead as planned and not be canceled last minute due to low attendance.

The Need

Many staff in the pipeline industry have not received basic pipeline engineering training, and some staff are only exposed to specialized areas. This course is a formal introduction to pipeline engineering.

Scope

The course will therefore cover:

  • The history of pipelines - their design and regulation
  • Engineering design - general introduction and basic principles
  • Pipeline routing, construction, and testing
  • Equipment and systems – pumps, compressors, leak detection
  • Cathodic protection - design and monitoring, interference
  • Coatings - application, selection, limitations
  • Selection of materials - API steels, corrosion-resistant alloys, alternative materials
  • Inspection techniques - intelligent pigs, setting inspection levels and intervals, assessment of intelligent pigs vs hydrotesting
  • Surveying and monitoring pipeline integrity - internal corrosion, cathodic protection, coatings
  • Internal corrosion mechanisms - sweet corrosion, sour corrosion, microbiological corrosion
  • Assessing fitness-for-purpose of pipelines with defects - corrosion, dents, gouges, and weld defects
  • Repair and rehabilitation methods
  • Evaluating pipeline management and safety systems
  • Risk and integrity management and analysis - the latest Standards and Codes including API 1160 and ASME B31.8's recently revised Appendix
  • Internal corrosion mechanisms - sweet corrosion, sour corrosion, microbiological corrosion

An extensive interactive design exercise will also be featured, providing an opportunity for participants to apply the learning in active, practical simulation.

Designed for

Engineers who are new to the pipeline business, pipeline engineers, pipeline construction engineers, project managers, maintenance engineers, contractors, supervisors, inspectors, operators, equipment suppliers, inspection and quality engineers, pipeline design engineers

Continuing Education Units

Upon completion of the course, participants will be eligible to receive 3 CEUs.

 

 Organized by:

Clarion Technical Conferences

Due to the nature of these courses, we would encourage you to sign up at least two weeks prior to the start of the course. Since our courses are dependent on the number of registered attendees, signing up as early as possible helps to guarantee that the course will go ahead as planned and not be canceled last minute due to low attendance.