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OG-S 119 - API 653 Storage Tank Inspector
Code | Start Date | Duration | Venue | |
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OG-S 119 | 30 December 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
OG-S 119 | 10 February 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
OG-S 119 | 07 April 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
OG-S 119 | 16 June 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
OG-S 119 | 28 July 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
OG-S 119 | 22 September 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
OG-S 119 | 17 November 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
OG-S 119 | 29 December 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
Course Description
This training program on API 653: Tank Inspection, Repair, Alteration and Reconstruction will focus on learning the API 653 tank inspection code and provide information on the API 571, API 575, API 650, API 652, API 651, API 577, ASME Section V and ASME Section IX. The delegates will further receive instructions on operations, maintenance, and troubleshooting of the different types of aboveground storage tanks.
Course Objectives
- Providing enough knowledge to resolve and troubleshoot aboveground storage tanks issues as per API 653 code
- Identifying the API 653 scope, suitability for service and evaluation of the tank shell
- Evaluating the tank bottom, including settlement and release prevention Systems (RPS)
- Recognizing the reasons for Inspection and Causes of Deterioration
- Determining the need for Cathodic Protection and explaining methods of Cathodic Protection
- Employing post weld heat treatment, identify the Charpy impact testing
- Carrying out welding discontinuities and discuss ASME section IX WPS &WPQ and PQR
Who Should Attend?
- Quality Managers
- Plant Engineer
- Supervisors
- Personnel involved in Above Ground Storage Tank Inspections
Course Details/Schedule
Day 1
- Road map to API 653 and associated codes
- Damage mechanisms applicable to aboveground storage tanks
- Suitability for Service:
- Tank roof evaluation
- Tank shell evaluation
- Tank bottom evaluation
- Tank foundation evaluation
- Brittle fracture consideration
- Tank material consideration
- New materials
- Original materials for reconstructed tanks
- Welding consumables
Day 2
- Tank repair and alteration
- Removal and replacement of ahell plate material
- Shell Repairs Using Lap- welded Patch Plates
- Repair of defects in shell plate material
- Alteration of tank shells to change shell height
- Repair of defective welds
- Repair of shell penetrations
- Addition or replacement of shell penetrations
- Alteration of existing shell penetrations
- Repair of tank bottoms
- Repair of fixed roofs
- Repair of floating roofs
- Repair or replacement of floating roof perimeter seals
- Hot taps
Day 3
- Welding qualifications
- Identification and records
- Preheat or controlled deposition welding methods as alternatives to post- weld heat
- Treatment (PWHT)
- Welding safety
- Examination and testing
- NDE
- Radiographs
- Hydrostatic testing
- Leak tests
- Measured settlement during hydrostatic testing
- Subsidiary API 653 codes (API 650 – API 651 – API 652 - API 575 – API 571)
Day 4
- Aboveground tanks safe operation
- Tanks commissioning
- Storage tanks troubleshooting
- Technical comparison between different tanks types
- Tanks parts failure and safe supervision
Day 5
- Gas freeing of tanks and vessels
- Methods of gauging tanks
- Static tlectricity
- Oil spills emergency
- Cleaning of oil products tanks
- Storage tanks checklists