API 580/581/ASME PCC-3: Risk-based Inspection Program, Technology and Planning Methods

This training course combines lectures teaching the theoretical principles of the risk-based and risk-informed approaches to inspection planning, then link it to the operational situation found in the typical petrochemical / refining plant. The lectures are accompanied and illustrated by the real-life examples and, in a number of cases, first-hand experience of the trainer, giving unique transition from theory to practice. Further, the practical workshops will allow the participants to try to combine own professional knowledge and experience with the newly acquired knowledge during the training course in order to be able to solve practical problems.

By the end of this Risk-based Inspection Program, Technology and Planning Methods training course, participants will learn to:

• Grasp the RBI process, as applied on static pressurized equipment, piping & storage tanks
• Enhance process safety and potentially reduce or eliminate unit / system downtimes
• Verify and implement most appropriate methods for damage identification & monitoring
• Optimize inspection plan compared with traditional inspection practices
• Increase equipment reliability by proper damage management, hence increasing plant operation efficiency and achieving most favorable lifecycle cost of the assets
• Implement state-of-the-art approach towards the asset management

This Gulf Rowad API 580/581/ASME PCC-3 training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals working in the maintenance, operation and design of the petrochemical and other process industries:

• Asset managers
• Inspectors and NDT specialists
• Maintenance Engineers
• Plant Engineers
• Corrosion and material specialists

Organisational Impact

The organization will increase the professional level of their maintenance and operation excellence, and, ideally achieve the following goals:

• Technical excellence & application of the state-of-the-art methods in inspection planning
• Systemic approach to the maintenance, as needed
• Utilization of the risk, operation (consequences) and maintenance (probabilities) synergy
• Use of RBI as a tool for decision-making
• Increased safety and asset reliability
• Optimal life-cycle utilization of the fixed assets
• Economic benefits in form of optimal ROI from capital assets

Personal Impact

The participants will gain basics of the RBI principles in the first part of the training course, focusing on the API RP 580, as well as on practical implementation as covered in the API RP 581. The participants will gain the following:

• Understand the RBI process
• Understand the damage mechanisms, their forms and methods to measure the damage
• Learn how the consequences are calculated
• Learn how the probabilities are estimated and updated with new information
• Match the inspection and mitigation strategies to the true state of equipment
• Prepare for the API 580 certification