Welding, Corrosion and Inspection
Corrosion Control
Pipeline Corrosion Integrity Management (PCIM) Course and Exam Preparation
Managing pipeline corrosion as a programme: the mechanisms, the controls, the monitoring and the evidence.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Contact hours
- 30
- Level
- Intermediate
- Fee from
- US$1,500
Overview
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.
Who should attend
Pipeline integrity and corrosion engineers, cathodic protection technicians, maintenance and operations engineers on transmission or gathering systems, and integrity managers.
What you will be able to do
- 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.
How it is taught
Short input, then work, across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each. Exercises run on situations delegates bring rather than on a case study written for a different organisation. Cohorts are capped so that everybody is asked something.
Available as classroom, live online, in house.
Programme outline
Day 1
Mechanisms
- External corrosion and coating disbondment
- Internal corrosion: sweet, sour, under deposit and microbiological
- Stress corrosion cracking
- Where each mechanism concentrates along a line
Day 2
External control
- Coating types, selection and failure
- Cathodic protection principles
- Criteria, surveys and interference
- Close interval and coating surveys
Day 3
Internal control
- Fluid analysis and corrosivity prediction
- Inhibitor selection, injection and verification
- Cleaning pigs, dewatering and biocide
- Coupons, probes and sampling
Day 4
Inspection and assessment
- Inline inspection tools, and what each detects
- Interpreting anomaly data and tool tolerance
- Assessing metal loss and setting dig priorities
- Direct assessment where a line cannot be pigged
Day 5
The programme
- Threat based planning and review cycles
- Records, trending, and proving effectiveness
- Examination preparation, and the question styles to expect
What you leave with
- 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.
Dates and fees
| Dates | Location | Format | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 to 27 November 2026 | Cairo, Egypt | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 30 November 2026 to 4 December 2026 | Nairobi, Kenya | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 7 to 11 December 2026 | Kampala, Uganda | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 14 to 18 December 2026 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Classroom | US$1,500 |
Fees are per delegate and cover tuition, all programme materials and the certificate. Travel, accommodation and visas are arranged by the delegate. Registration closes two weeks before a programme starts.
Certificate
A GATI certificate recording what was 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.
It records participation. and GATI does not claim one it does not hold.