Pipeline Corrosion Integrity Management (PCIM) Course and Exam Preparation

A pipeline fails where it was not being watched. Corrosion management is therefore less about any single technique than about covering the whole asset with a defensible combination of them, and being able to show that the combination is working. This week moves through the mechanisms a pipeline actually suffers, internal and external, then through the controls: coatings, cathodic protection, inhibitors, cleaning and dewatering. It closes on monitoring and assessment, because a programme that cannot demonstrate its own effectiveness tends to be cut in the next budget round whether or not it was working.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Identify the corrosion mechanisms credible on a given pipeline.
• Specify and verify external coating and cathodic protection.
• Design an internal corrosion control programme for the fluid actually carried.
• Interpret inline inspection data and act on it in priority order.
• Evidence the programme well enough to defend it to a regulator.

Pipeline integrity and corrosion engineers, cathodic protection technicians, maintenance and operations engineers on transmission or gathering systems, and integrity managers.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A corrosion threat assessment for one line.
• A monitoring plan with locations, methods and frequencies justified.
• A dig and repair prioritisation drawn from inspection data.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.