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API RECOMMENDED PRACTICE 582

Welding Guidelines for the Chemical, Oil, and Gas Industries
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24-28 July 2023
Singapore

API RP 582, Welding Guidelines for the Chemical, Oil, and Gas Industries is a recommended practice developed and published by the American Petroleum Institute (API) that provides supplementary guidelines and practices for welding and welding related topics for shop and field fabrication, repair, and modification of pressure-containingequipment, tanks, and other equipment or component items. It is intended to supplement the welding requirements found in codes such as ASME BPVC Section IX.

Welder

Who should attend?

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  • Welding Engineers

  • Welding Technicians

  • Inspection Personnel

  • Maintenance Personnel

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Objectives:

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  • Understand the use and application of welding techniques and standards

  • Understand the various types of welding joints​

  • Learn about the different types of electrodes and standards​

  • Appreciate the variations of welding various types of metals​

  • Know, through the study of basic metallurgy, how heat treatment may be used to overcome some of the problems associated with welding, including the HAZ and define the basic types of welding defects and failure​

  • Learn how NDT can be used to detect weld defects.​

  • Understand how to apply materials testing techniques to examine the strength and quality of welded joints​

  • Gain an understanding of corrosion test methods and interpretation of results

Chemical Plant

Day 1

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Module 1: Introduction

Module 2​: Codes and standard

Module 3: Basic Metallurgy

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Day 2 

Module 4:  Weld Joint Design

Module 5:  Welding Processes

Module 6:  Welding Technical Prints, Symbols

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Day 3

Module 7:  Consumable Storage and Handling

Module 8:  Heat treatment of steel

Module 9:  Weld Overlay

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Day 4

Module 10: Weld Procedure Qualification

Module 11:  Practical welding demonstration (Site Demonstration)

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Day 5 

Module 12: Welding Defects and Imperfections

Module 13:  Materials Testing

Module 14:  Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)

About the Expert

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Yousuf Memon has several years of experience in the fields of asset integrity management, corrosion control of process equipment and process safety management.


His former employers include Saudi ARAMCO, PARCO (Mid-Country Refinery, Pakistan), Total Energies (TABK, Abu Dhabi) and Dawood University of Engineering & Technology (Pakistan).


Different areas of plant and equipment mechanical integrity remained his areas of expertise that cover upgrading of metallurgy, plant inspection, risk-based inspection, root cause failure analysis, material selection, process corrosion control, corrosion monitoring, corrosion inhibitor injection, protective coatings, cathodic protection system, QA/QC and non-destructive testing.


He has been operating Petrosult & Unimart (P&U, Pakistan) for dealing in Asset Integrity Management and Corrosion Control businesses since 2001. Also, he headed Reliance Swift Veritas (RSV, Pakistan), a third Party inspection for Asset Integrity Management for the period 2008 – 2013, as CEO.

Moreover, he has been conducting training courses since 2006 in the field of his expertise mostly for international clients of upstream, midstream, downstream and utility industries.


He is approved trainer of Abu Dhabi Vocational Education and Training Institute
(ADVETI), UAE and American Petroleum Institute (API), USA.
 

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