API RP-577 Welding Process, Inspection and Metallurgy

People with sound knowledge base are assets to everyone. This training course trains and educates personnel with sound knowledge of welding, metallurgy, inspection, which could very well utilize in, oil & gas, petrochemical, power, nuclear and other industries. Parallel contents have been extracted from other courses, e.g. CSWIP and AWS-CWI to make the contents very strong and sound, benefitting the participants and making this course truly meaningful.

Training Course participants aspiring to be certified by American Petroleum Institute will undergo this rigorous program to get them well versed with the various code books and standards, including API Standards 577, ASME Sec IX and other applicable standards.

In summary, this API RP-577 Welding Process, Inspection and Metallurgy training course empowers participants with the knowledge in:

• Welding techniques, welding positions, welding consumables, weld preparation
• Basics of welding metallurgy
• Various welding inspection, NDE methods, relative merits, demerits
• Various welding codes, specifications and standards
• Evaluation of welding procedure specifications and welder’s performance qualifications acc. to ASME IX
• Evaluate the preparation of test pieces for destructive tests and verify their compliance with applicable specifications
• Various parent materials and welding consumable (acc. to ASME codes)
• Reviewing NDT reports on welding work; ensuring that NDT personnel are properly qualified, and that certification is relevant and valid for the testing performed drawings and specifications, having understanding of weld symbols
• Each of the above contents are backed up with daily Mock-Up examinations and evaluations

A variety of methodologies will be used during the course that includes: presentations comprising of:

• Lectures
• Concepts and Case Studies
• Pre-test and Post-test
• Questionnaires and Solutions
• Group Work/Discussions

Organization perusing this API RP-577 Welding Process, Inspection and Metallurgy training course will benefit in a number of ways:

• This course adds value to the skillset within an organization
• Properly trained personnel are available to perform the required jobs
• Improves the knowledge and experience base on related areas
• Improves the depth and skill levels, in welding, metallurgy and inspection
• An overall improvement in the skill database
• Last of all, adds reliability, safety and consistency in work as related to Oil, Gas, Power and other related areas

Personnel perusing this API RP-577 Welding Process, Inspection and Metallurgy training course will benefit in a number of ways:

• Skill improvement
• Skill broadening
• Confidence to perform challenging work
• Truly and really competent for any welding and inspection related work
• Customer confidence, right person doing the right job
• Better decision making on critical engineering issues
• Better contractor and personnel management