- Overview
- Schedule
TRAINING DAYS: | 3 Days | PDH: | 24 Hours |
DISCIPLINE: | Corrosion, Materials, and Integrity | LEVEL: | Foundational |
CATEGORY: | Mechanical Fundamentals | SUGGESTED EXPERIENCE: | 1–3 years |
TRAINING MAP: | Fixed Equipment Engineer | ||
Levels and experience are guidelines based on topic-specific experience. All courses support foundational and advanced learning.
About:
This course provides a practical understanding of welding processes, metallurgy, weld defect prevention, inspection methods, and industry codes used in process industries. Participants learn the relationships between metallurgy and welding performance, heat-affected zones, weld quality, inspection techniques, specialized welding applications, and code compliance through practical examples, case histories, and welding procedure reviews.
What You’ll learn:
Explain welding processes, metallurgy fundamentals, and material behavior for common engineering alloys.
Identify welding defects, heat-affected zone (HAZ) concerns, inspection methods, and repair techniques.
Apply welding procedures, inspection technologies, and industry codes to improve weld quality and equipment reliability.
Evaluate practical welding applications through case histories, welding procedure reviews, and specialized repair methods.
Who Should Attend:
Welding and Metallurgy for Industry Professionals is designed for welding engineers, QA/QC inspectors, reliability engineers, fabrication supervisors, metallurgists, project managers, and other professionals involved in welding, fabrication, inspection, and metallurgy within the oil and gas, petrochemical, power, and manufacturing industries.
Course Outline:
Welding Fundamentals
- Joining methods: welding, brazing, soldering, and adhesives
- Metallurgy: carbon, low-alloy, and stainless steels; nickel, titanium, aluminum, and specialty alloys
- Welding processes: SMAW, SAW, GMAW, GTAW, and FCAW
- Consumables: rods, wires, fluxes, and shielding gases
Welding Metallurgy and Inspection
- Heat-affected zones, thermal cycling, and heat treatment
- Defects: hot/cold cracking, hydrogen, environmental, and welder performance issues
- Inspection: visual, UT, RT, ferrite, PMI, and advanced methods
Advanced Applications
- Strip lining, weld overlay, roll bonding, and explosion bonding
- Repairs: hydrogen bakeout, preheat, PWHT, temper bead, and in-service welding
- Case histories, API/ASME/AWS codes, and WPS/PQR review
Taught By:
Andrew Thigpen, John Richert
Meet The Instructor:
Andrew Thigpen
Andrew Thigpen has nearly 15 years of oil and gas experience in inspection, welding, metallurgy, and mechanical integrity. At Becht, he supports materials selection, welding specifications, corrosion control, and inspection strategies. He previously held integrity leadership and engineering roles at Vertex and Shell. An API RP 582 Subcommittee member, he holds multiple API certifications and AWS Certified Welding Inspector certification. He earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Auburn and an MS in Welding Engineering from Ohio State.
John Richert
John Richert brings 40 years of oil and gas experience in damage mechanisms, materials, corrosion, and fixed equipment integrity, including 24 years with ExxonMobil. He led materials support for 10 Asia-Pacific refineries and managed Syncrude’s Materials & Inspection Department. His expertise includes failure investigations, corrosion troubleshooting, fire damage assessments, risk-based inspection, and HF alkylation. A longtime NACE (AMPP) contributor, he holds a BS in Metallurgical Engineering from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo.
Venue:
The training will be held in Nwe Orleans, LA Please check back for updates.