Course Description
This course gives the participants a good theoretical understanding of corrosion, as well as the practical tools needed for carrying out inspections of steel structures in the 'battle against corrosion'.
Course Objectives
- Learning how to design Metal coatings
- Understanding surface preparation standards
- Being familiar with specified coating conditions
- Being able to troubleshoot coating faults systems
Who Should Attend?
- Petroleum engineers
- Technicians
- Production and reservoir staff
- Quality control staff
- Those who are involved in coating inspection
Course Details/Schedule
- Rusting on metals
- Surface preparation methods & standards
- Surface contaminants and tests for detection
- Duties of an inspector
- Solutions and dispersions
- Drying and curing of paint films
- Paint constituents and basic technology
- Colour
- Paint systems
- Water borne coatings
- Paint manufacture
- Health and safety
- Testing of paints for properties and performance
- Film thicknesses
- Specified coating conditions
- Cathodic protection
- Holiday/Pinhole detection
- Paint application
- Metal coatings
- Coating faults
