An Interactive 5-Day Training Course
Asset Integrity Management and Risk-Based Inspection (RBI)
Practical guide to asset integrity and risk-based inspection.
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Duration
5 Days
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$ 4,000
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01 Nov 2027
Asset Integrity Management and Risk-Based Inspection (RBI)
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Asset Integrity Management and Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) - SF-AIMR-PEA27
| Code | Date | Time | Duration | Location | Currency | Early Bird Fee Per Person |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF-AIMR-PEA27 | 01 - 05 Nov 2027 | 10 AM CST | 5 Days - 4 Hours / Day |
Online |
USD |
4000 |
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Asset Integrity Management and Risk-Based Inspection (RBI)
This training covers asset integrity management and risk-based inspection for oil and gas facilities. It works through integrity management system structure, safety critical element identification and performance standards, damage mechanism screening, corrosion loop definition, qualitative and quantitative RBI methodology, inspection planning and technique selection, fitness for service assessment and the management of ageing assets and life extension.
Description
Integrity management exists to keep hydrocarbon inside the equipment for the life of the facility. That requires knowing which equipment can fail, how it will fail, how fast the damage is progressing, what the consequence would be, and therefore where inspection and maintenance effort should go. Time-based inspection programmes distribute that effort evenly, which means they over-inspect equipment that is not deteriorating and under-inspect equipment that is. Risk-based inspection redistributes it according to risk, and when applied properly it improves safety and reduces cost simultaneously.
This training covers both the management framework and the technical methodology. Asset integrity management system structure is developed first, covering safety critical element identification, performance standards, verification and the accountabilities that hold the system together. Damage mechanism identification follows, since RBI is only as good as the mechanisms it recognises: internal and external corrosion, erosion, environmental cracking, fatigue, creep, brittle fracture and mechanical damage are each covered with their driving conditions and susceptible locations. Corrosion loop and circuit definition follows. RBI methodology is then developed through both qualitative and quantitative approaches, covering probability of failure, consequence of failure, risk ranking, inspection effectiveness and interval determination to API 580 and API 581 practice. The training closes with inspection technique selection, data management, fitness for service assessment principles under API 579, and the particular problems of ageing assets and life extension.
Damage mechanism identification is where RBI studies succeed or fail. A study that screens for general corrosion and thins the inspection programme accordingly, while missing that a line is susceptible to chloride stress corrosion cracking or corrosion under insulation, has increased risk while appearing to manage it. Mechanisms that fail without measurable wall loss are the most dangerous in this respect, because thickness monitoring, the standard inspection response, does not detect them.
Consequence assessment carries similar weight. Two lines with identical corrosion rates carry entirely different risk if one is in an occupied area with a large inventory upstream and the other is a short low-pressure utility line. Recognising this is what allows inspection effort to be concentrated where failure would actually matter, and it is the basis on which extended intervals for low-consequence equipment can be justified to a regulator.
The system side matters as much as the methodology. Safety critical element identification, performance standards defining what each barrier must achieve, and verification that it does achieve it, are the framework within which inspection findings become decisions. Without it, inspection produces reports that are filed rather than acted on, deferrals accumulate without visibility, and the organisation loses track of which barriers are actually intact.
Ageing assets change the problem again. Facilities operating beyond their original design life carry accumulated damage, obsolete documentation, superseded design standards and equipment for which spares and vendor support no longer exist. Life extension requires establishing the current condition rather than assuming it, reassessing the damage mechanisms present under current operating conditions, and making explicit decisions about what will be repaired, replaced, monitored or accepted.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Structure an asset integrity management system and define its accountabilities and verification requirements
- Identify safety critical elements and write performance standards for them
- Screen equipment for applicable damage mechanisms and identify susceptible locations
- Define corrosion loops and inspection circuits across a facility
- Apply qualitative and quantitative risk-based inspection methodology to API 580 and 581 practice
- Assess probability of failure from damage mechanism, rate and inspection effectiveness
- Assess consequence of failure including inventory, fluid properties, area and business impact
- Develop risk-based inspection plans including technique selection, coverage and interval
- Apply fitness for service principles to assess damaged equipment against continued operation
- Manage ageing assets, life extension decisions and integrity in facilities beyond design life
The training builds from the integrity management framework down to the RBI calculation, so that inspection decisions are traceable to both risk and management accountability. Damage mechanism screening is applied to real facility systems, with participants identifying mechanisms and susceptible locations from process conditions and materials. Corrosion loop definition, probability and consequence assessment and interval determination are worked through numerically. Inspection reports, thickness data sets and RBI study outputs from operating facilities are examined and critiqued. Failure case histories are analysed for the mechanism that was missed or the finding that was not acted on.
Organisations sending participants to this training will:
- Reduce loss of containment incidents by directing inspection at the equipment that will actually fail
- Reduce inspection and shutdown cost by extending intervals on low risk equipment with justification
- Improve regulatory compliance and the defensibility of inspection programmes
- Improve visibility of barrier condition and deferred safety critical maintenance
- Support life extension decisions on ageing facilities with sound technical evidence
- Build internal capability to run RBI studies rather than commissioning them externally
Participants will:
- Identify the damage mechanisms present in a system from its process conditions and materials
- Build and defend a risk-based inspection plan
- Interpret inspection data and determine remaining life
- Assess damaged equipment for continued service using fitness for service principles
- Recognise where an inspection programme is leaving risk unaddressed
- Build a specialist capability in demand across operating and ageing assets
- Inspection, integrity and corrosion engineers
- Maintenance and reliability engineers
- Facilities, process and operations engineers with integrity responsibility
- Materials and welding engineers
- Process safety practitioners covering asset integrity barriers
- Technical authorities and asset managers accountable for integrity
- Regulatory compliance and assurance staff
Module 1 - Asset Integrity Management Framework
- Definition and scope of asset integrity management
- Integrity across design, construction, operation and decommissioning
- Regulatory frameworks and industry standards
- Integrity management system structure and its elements
- Roles, accountabilities and technical authority arrangements
- Competence requirements across integrity roles
- Integrity performance indicators, leading and lagging
- Relationship between integrity management and process safety
- Common weaknesses in integrity management systems
Module 2 - Safety Critical Elements and Performance Standards
- Safety critical element definition and identification methodology
- Linking safety critical elements to major accident hazards
- Performance standards: functionality, availability, reliability, survivability
- Writing measurable performance standards
- Verification schemes and independent verification
- Assurance activities and their scheduling
- Barrier status monitoring and impairment management
- Compensating measures for impaired barriers
- Deferral of safety critical maintenance and its governance
- Reporting barrier condition to management
Module 3 - Damage Mechanisms
- Damage mechanism classification and screening approach
- Internal corrosion: carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulphide, oxygen, microbiological, under-deposit
- External corrosion and corrosion under insulation
- Erosion and erosion-corrosion
- Environmental cracking: sulphide stress cracking, hydrogen induced cracking, chloride cracking
- Fatigue: mechanical, thermal, vibration induced
- High temperature mechanisms: creep, oxidation, carburisation
- Brittle fracture and low temperature embrittlement
- Mechanical damage, dents, gouges and third party damage
- Mechanism susceptibility by material and service condition
- Susceptible locations and where damage initiates
- Mechanisms that fail without measurable wall loss
Module 4 - Corrosion Loops and Circuit Definition
- Corrosion loop concept and its purpose
- Defining loops by process conditions, materials and damage mechanism
- Inspection circuit definition within loops
- Condition monitoring location selection
- Thickness measurement point placement and rationale
- Documenting the corrosion basis for each loop
- Process changes that invalidate loop definitions
- Maintaining loop definitions under management of change
- Common errors in loop and circuit definition
Module 5 - Risk-Based Inspection Methodology
- RBI principles and objectives
- API 580 framework and API 581 quantitative methodology
- Qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative approaches
- Study scope, boundaries and equipment population
- Data requirements and data quality for RBI
- Team composition and study execution
- Risk matrix construction and risk targets
- Documentation and auditability of RBI studies
- Regulatory acceptance of RBI programmes
- Common failures in RBI implementation
Module 6 - Probability of Failure Assessment
- Damage factor concept and its calculation
- Corrosion rate determination from inspection data and prediction
- Thinning, cracking, external damage and other damage factors
- Inspection effectiveness categories and their assignment
- Effect of inspection effectiveness on probability of failure
- Generic failure frequency and its adjustment
- Management systems factor and its application
- Uncertainty in damage rate and its treatment
- Updating probability of failure with new inspection data
Module 7 - Consequence of Failure Assessment
- Consequence categories: safety, environmental, business, reputational
- Release scenarios, hole sizes and release rates
- Fluid properties, phase behaviour and release behaviour
- Inventory available and isolation effectiveness
- Flammable consequence: jet fire, pool fire, flash fire, explosion
- Toxic consequence and hydrogen sulphide releases
- Consequence area calculation methods
- Business interruption and production loss consequence
- Detection, isolation and mitigation credit
- Consequence assessment for utility and non-hydrocarbon systems
Module 8 - Inspection Planning and Execution
- Converting risk ranking into an inspection plan
- Inspection interval determination and risk target date
- Technique selection against damage mechanism and location
- Ultrasonic thickness, radiography, eddy current, guided wave
- Advanced techniques: phased array, time of flight diffraction, pulsed eddy current
- Internal visual inspection and vessel entry planning
- Inspection of insulated and buried equipment
- Coverage, sampling strategy and statistical considerations
- On-stream against shutdown inspection
- Inspection execution quality and inspector competence
- Data capture, storage and trending
Module 9 - Fitness for Service and Repair Decisions
- Fitness for service assessment purpose and framework
- API 579 assessment levels and their application
- General metal loss and local thin area assessment
- Pitting, blisters and laminations
- Crack-like flaw assessment and fracture mechanics concepts
- Dents, gouges and mechanical damage assessment
- Creep and high temperature damage assessment
- Remaining life calculation and reassessment intervals
- Rerating and derating equipment
- Repair options and their qualification
- Temporary repairs and their control
- Documentation of fitness for service decisions
Module 10 - Ageing Assets and Life Extension
- Ageing mechanisms and their manifestation in facilities
- Establishing current condition where records are incomplete
- Reassessing damage mechanisms under current operating conditions
- Obsolescence: equipment, spares, vendor support, standards
- Documentation gaps and design basis reconstruction
- Life extension assessment methodology
- Cumulative deferral and maintenance backlog effects
- Cost of integrity in late life against remaining production value
- Decommissioning triggers and integrity in cessation planning
- Sustaining integrity capability in a shrinking organisation
Upon successful completion of this training course, delegates will be awarded an official Certificate of Completion issued by the Petroleum Engineers Association (PEA), an ISO 9001:2015 certified training organization. The certificate carries 10 Credits and formally records the total learning hours completed.
Each certificate is signed by the Course Facilitator and the CEO of the Petroleum Engineers Association, and serves as verifiable proof of professional training that delegates can present to employers and professional bodies worldwide.
This course is led by an asset integrity and inspection specialist with more than 20 years in the oil and gas industry, built on directing inspection effort where the risk actually is.
He currently holds asset integrity management leadership responsibility with a major operator managing ageing and high-risk assets, covering damage mechanism identification, risk-based inspection methodology and fitness for service assessment — the disciplines that keep ageing facilities safe without over-inspecting or under-inspecting. Earlier in his career he served as an inspection engineer on major processing facilities, leading risk-based inspection implementation to API 580 and 581 standards on some of the industry's most complex ageing assets. Across two decades he has taken several asset integrity programmes from reactive inspection through to risk-informed, targeted inspection planning.
That operating background shapes how he teaches. Delegates learn not only how asset integrity management systems are meant to work, but how they perform in practice — where damage mechanisms actually go undetected, why risk-based inspection prioritisation gets misapplied, what makes fitness for service assessments defensible, how safety critical elements and performance standards are maintained over time, and how integrity and operations teams manage ageing assets together. Every module is anchored in real inspection data, integrity decisions and lessons from ageing asset management.
His subject coverage spans the full integrity management chain: asset integrity management systems, safety critical elements and performance standards, damage mechanism identification, risk-based inspection methodology to API 580 and 581, inspection planning and execution, fitness for service assessment and ageing asset management.
He has delivered asset integrity and inspection training for many years across the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia, working with mixed groups of inspection engineers, integrity specialists and technical management at every level of experience. He is an active contributor to industry forums on asset integrity and risk-based inspection.
His approach is practical, discussion-led and grounded in real integrity management experience — not the textbook.
Frequently Asked Questions
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