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Meet your trainer: RAMESH SINGH

RAMESH SINGH, IEng, MWeldI (UK), is a consultant and working as Senior Principal Engineer at Gulf Interstate
Engineering, Houston, TX. With over 40 years of experience, in pipeline integrity, risk assessment, materials,
welding, and corrosion. He is a registered engineer with the British Engineering Council and a member of The
Welding Institute, UK. Ramesh has been associated with several standard bodies, including Canadian Standard
Association where he was associated with Production Group of CSA Z 662-2003. He has long association with NACE,
as member and officer of NACE.

Complimentary Books authored by Mr. RAMESH SINGH

Based on over 40 years of experience in the field, Ramesh Singh goes beyond
corrosion control, providing techniques for addressing present and future integrity
issues. Pipeline Integrity Handbook provides pipeline engineers with the tools to
evaluate and inspect pipelines, safeguard the life cycle of their pipeline asset and
ensure that they are optimizing delivery and capability. Presented in easy-to-use,
step-by-step order, Pipeline Integrity Handbook is a quick reference for day-to-day
use in identifying key pipeline degradation mechanisms and threats to pipeline
integrity. The book begins with an overview of pipeline risk management and
engineering assessment, including data collection and regulatory approaches to
liquid pipeline risk management.
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Pipeline Integrity Management & Risk Assessment

Course Overview
Many oil and gas transmission pipelines have exceeded their design life, and several more are nearing their design
life. Incidents of inadvertent release is more common some of them leading to fatalities. Even the best designed and
maintained pipeline are prone to failure. This very fact requires that the operators take necessary steps to mitigate
or at least minimize the potential of failure by controlling the events.
This workshop is an attempt to bring awareness to what constitutes maintenance of pipeline integrity. The
discussion will introduce to the following seven concepts.
1. What is Risk management?
2. What is Integrity Management?
3. What causes affect integrity of pipeline and facilities?
4. What steps could be taken to mitigate or limit risk to pipeline?
5. What are resources that can be used to make the integrity management effective?
6. Discuss Tools used to make effective integrity management system.
7. How to use Risk Based analysis to optimize limited resources?
Pipeline Integrity Management is a continuous improvement process, as demonstrated by the below Integrity
Management Circle, and the management plans are updated on the basis of the acquired data and information.
This seminar will discuss the theories and practices of cost effective pipeline integrity management, and guide the
attendees through the Integrity Management Circle.

Course Objectives
The increasing use of high-technology inspection and maintenance methods are helping pipeline owners to assess
the condition of their lines, and if these modern maintenance methods are combined with modern defectassessment methods, they can provide a very powerful and cost-effective tool. This course will provide attendees
best practices on how to manage gathered data from various inspection techniques and apply them in modelling the
potential failures. It will also teach attendees on how to optimize the inspection and maintenance resources to
develop a comprehensive integrity management program covering both pipelines and their associated facilities.
The necessary elements of such a program are described in detail with examples of typical program content
including an overarching view of where detailed Risk Analysis and Defect Assessment fits in the Program. The course
is highly interactive and takes the form of lectures, workshops, and case studies.
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Key Topics Covered

Pipeline Engineering Principles & Pipeline Integrity Management

Principles and Practice of Data Collection and Management
Causes of Pipeline Failure
Risk Assessment & Development of Management Plans
Pipeline Inspections
Difficult to inspect Pipelines and Direct Assessment
Defect Assessment Methods
Repair and Remediation
Reporting and Performance Measurement

You will enhance your skills to:

Identify Pipeline hazards as threat to integrity.

Develop plans to address the identified threats
Conduct appropriate inspections to determine the condition of the pipeline
Assess the results of the inspections
Adopt A risk- based approach to maintenance
Update the risk assessments and management plans
Perform appropriate repair & rehabilitation activities

Who should attend?

Heads, Senior Managers, Managers, Specialists, Senior Engineers, Engineers, Risk analysts, Statistical analysts,
responsible for following activities:

Pipeline Integrity
Pipeline Engineering
Inspection
Pipeline Risk
Pipeline Operations
Pipeline Design
Pipeline Installation & Commissioning

Pipeline Maintenance & Repair

Pipeline Systems Management
QA/QC
Reliability & Asset Integrity
Corrosion/Coating/Cathodic Protection
Technical Services

Program Schedule (Day1 to Day3)

08.30am
09.00am
10.30am 11.00am
12.30am
13.30pm
15.00pm 15.30pm
17.00pm

Registration and welcome coffee

Morning session begins
Morning teas break
Lunch
Afternoon session begins
Afternoon tea break
End of Day/Course

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This course can be presented exclusively for your organisation on an in-house basis, tailored to meet your specific
needs, at a place and time of your convenience. If you have a team of 10 or more interested in this course, lets
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Course Format
This course will be held in a highly interactive workshop format with Role Simulation Exercises based on real world
examples. Places are limited to ensure all participants gain maximum insight into world class strategic thinking.

Pre - Course
A Pre-Course Questionnaire will be sent to you prior to the workshop. The Trainer will customize the training to suit
your specific needs.

Certificate
Upon completion of the course, you will receive a Certificate of Attendance bearing the signatures of both the
Trainer and the Course Organizer. This Certificate will testify to your professional development and assist in your
advancement.

About your Expert trainer: RAMESH SINGH

RAMESH SINGH, IEng, MWeldI (UK), is a consultant and working as Senior Principal Engineer at Gulf Interstate
Engineering, Houston, TX. He specializes in materials, welding, and corrosion. Ramesh has an M.S. degree in
engineering management from California Coast University and has gained his basic metallurgical education from Air
Force Technical Institute, India.
He is a registered engineer with the British Engineering Council and a member of The Welding Institute, UK. Ramesh
has been associated with several standard bodies, including a member of Canadian Standard Association where he
was associated with Production Group of CSA Z 662-2003. He has long association with NACE, as member and officer
of NACE; Mr. Singh has served on various technical committees where he has served as Treasurer and Vice Chair of
NACE Houston Chapter. He has participated in various technical groups and committees on Metallurgy, Material,
Welding and Fabrication of Corrosion-Resistant Alloys (Vice Chair), Double Cantilever Test Committee, Oversight and
Maintenance Committee of MR 0175, (ISO 15156).
He has authored of several books and published articles in industry journal articles and presented papers.
Ramesh consults as subject matter expert through his Consulting firm Nadoi Management, Inc.

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Agenda: Training Day 1 - Day 3
Pipeline Engineering Principles& Pipeline Integrity Management
This introductory module is intended to provide the basics pipeline engineering principles which will
help you better understand the pipeline integrity management. It will be also introduce the concept of
the integrity management.

Why use pipelines?

Gas vs Oil pipelines ASME B 31.8 and 31.4
Pipeline design
Construction of Pipelines
Class Locations
Threats to a Pipeline
Pipeline defects and failure
Stresses in pipelines
Basic pipeline operating and maintenance parameters
Inspection and Maintenance methods
Introduction to the Integrity Management
Manage ageing pipeline infrastructure with an Integrity Management system.
Data collection
Risk and Consequence
Internal and External corrosion

Pipeline Failures
This module aims to provide an introduction to some of the known failure modes of pipeline and
facilities. An introduction to facture mechanics will be made with reference to BS 7910.

Failures associated with sour service, SCC, HIC etc.

Failures associated with CO2
Failures associated with Microbiological bacteria
Failures associated with welding
Metallurgical aspect of failures
Manufacturing defects
Failure modes and how pipelines fail (ductile/brittle fracture)
Crack propagation,
Methods to assess cracks (Ref. BS 7910, API 579)

Repair and Remediation

The objective of this module is to describe the main pipeline repair techniques. The applicability of each
of the techniques for the repair of defects will be discussed. The following techniques will be included:

Repair and rehabilitation strategy

Response to discovering defects
What are the cost implications?
Types of repair and rehabilitation methods
Grinding, Weld deposition
Composite wraps
Cut outs
Mechanical clamps/connectors
Time to repair

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Agenda: Training Day 1 - Day 3
Pipeline Inspection
The in-line pipeline inspection technologies that are available to detect the defects found in pipelines
will be reviewed in this module. The module will include:

API Standard 1163: In Line Inspection Systems

Key terms and definitions
Systems qualification process
In Line inspection system selection
Magnetic Flux Leakage tools (including MagneScan, TranScan and Elastic Wave)
Ultrasonic tools (including UltraScanWM, UltraScan CD, EMAT)
Caliper vehicles (including CalScan)
Pipeline location vehicles (including ScoutScan)
Direct assessment procedures and methodologies
Above ground survey techniques (CIPS, DCVG etc.)
Identify new technologies and applications

Defect Assessment Methods

This module will review, and illustrate with practical worked examples, the assessment methods which
are applicable each of the different pipeline defects and will include:

Corrosion assessment methods (Ref. ASME B31.G, RStreng,)

Methods to assess manufacturing metal loss defects
Methods to assess dents
Methods to assess gouges and dent/gouge combinations
Using inspection data to carry out integrity assessments

Reporting and Performance Measurement

This module draws the course together and will provide information on how data collected during the
process is integrated back into the management system.
Recap of training and final Q&A session
The training session will be interactive and spread with some in class calculations to bring home the
points.
Participants are encouraged to interact and ask questions and clarifications during and at the end of the
training sessions. They can also ask questions to expert trainer any final burning questions.
There are no bad questions in the world and any question you have is very likely what someone else in
the training course also wants to ask. Participants are encouraged to take full advantage of this
interactive Q&A session and get practical ideas for solving your pipeline integrity management
problems!

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