Reduce avoidable variation in how non-destructive testing is carried out across teams.
Non-Destructive Testing Techniques for Detecting Equipment Defects
A structured, applied course in non-destructive testing — designed to be used the week you return.
📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Deferred maintenance and deferred decisions on non-destructive testing both accrue interest. Regulators and insurers increasingly want documented evidence of how this area of energy and hydrocarbon operations is controlled. They leave able to brief senior management on the energy and hydrocarbon operations discipline in terms that support a decision. Participants test their assumptions about non-destructive testing against scenarios designed to break weak ones. The content is relevant to those who own the practice within energy and hydrocarbon operations and to those who are held accountable for its results. Ambition around this aspect of energy and hydrocarbon operations outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. The most reliable predictor of sound non-destructive testing is whether anyone reviews it when nothing has gone wrong. Participants leave with a method for this strand of energy and hydrocarbon operations, not a set of opinions about it. Work concludes with a self-assessment of this part of energy and hydrocarbon operations that participants can repeat annually.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Structure contracts and service agreements covering non-destructive testing.
Design a training and briefing approach that sustains competence in non-destructive testing.
Build a register of the risks attaching to non-destructive testing and keep it current.
Capture and act on lessons from incidents and near misses involving non-destructive testing.
Specify the instrumentation and data needed to monitor non-destructive testing reliably.
Verify that contractors working on non-destructive testing meet the same standard as direct staff.
Who Should Attend
Members of committees that take decisions affecting non-destructive testing.
Maintenance and reliability engineers supporting non-destructive testing.
Shift supervisors and control room leads dealing with non-destructive testing in real time.
Consultants and advisers supporting clients on non-destructive testing.
Process safety and technical safety specialists reviewing non-destructive testing.
Operations and production engineers responsible for non-destructive testing.
Course Modules
Non-destructive testing: integrity, inspection and condition assessment
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The environmental exposure created by non-destructive testing
- Review the instrumentation on non-destructive testing for coverage gaps.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to non-destructive testing.
- Name a single owner for each element of non-destructive testing.
- Define the safe operating envelope for non-destructive testing and how deviations are detected.
Session 2Keeping non-destructive testing alive after the initial push
- Confirm handover documentation for non-destructive testing is complete and current.
- Establish the alarm philosophy applying to non-destructive testing and remove nuisance alarms.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in non-destructive testing.
- Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to non-destructive testing.
Non-destructive testing: technical fundamentals and operating envelope
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reading condition data on non-destructive testing before failure, not after
- Remove steps in non-destructive testing that add effort without adding assurance.
- Reduce the variation in how non-destructive testing is carried out between teams.
- Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios non-destructive testing can create.
- Verify six months later that changes to non-destructive testing have held.
Session 2Building lasting competence in non-destructive testing
- Review whether non-destructive testing is aligned with the objectives of the operating asset.
- Confirm that lessons from non-destructive testing are shared beyond the team that learned them.
- Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on non-destructive testing.
- Check that the permit regime covering non-destructive testing matches the actual hazard.
Non-destructive testing: economics, price exposure and investment case
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What the last incident involving non-destructive testing should have taught us
- Estimate the resource non-destructive testing requires to run as designed.
- Verify isolation points for non-destructive testing are proven and documented.
- Test the procedure for non-destructive testing against a realistic scenario.
- Establish the boundary of non-destructive testing and record what sits outside it.
Session 2The hard cases in non-destructive testing and how to reason about them
- Identify the failure modes of non-destructive testing with the highest consequence.
- Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on non-destructive testing.
- Build the competence framework that supports non-destructive testing.
- Check that non-destructive testing still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
Non-destructive testing: contracts, contractors and service delivery
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building the investment case for non-destructive testing that finance will accept
- Review incident and near-miss history involving non-destructive testing.
- Confirm that those complying with non-destructive testing understand why it exists.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on non-destructive testing.
- Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to non-destructive testing.
Session 2Competence and handover on non-destructive testing when experienced staff leave
- Confirm that reporting on non-destructive testing reaches the people who can act.
- Define the trigger that would require non-destructive testing to be redesigned.
- Check that management of change is applied to every modification of non-destructive testing.
- Model the economics of non-destructive testing at low, base and high price cases.
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USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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