Delivery
On-site pipeline training at your facility
For a whole team, instruction at your own facility is almost always the better option — and not mainly because of travel cost.
The obvious arithmetic, and the better reason
Sending eight people away means eight sets of travel, accommodation and lost days against one instructor’s mobilisation. Above a handful of attendees, on site wins on cost alone.
The substantive reason is different. A course at your facility can use your procedures, your equipment and your acceptance criteria. The group works the segment they will actually test next quarter, and the field-reality sessions run against hardware in the room rather than a photograph.
What we bring
- The instructors — the field crews who plan and execute this work
- A copy of the 172-page field book for every attendee, which is the course text
- The equipment displays and checklist exercises for the two-day certification
- Hands-on demonstration hardware, so the group works with equipment rather than photographs of it
- Where the site allows, a NitroTech N2 nitrogen trailer brought to the training as a working example of how bulk nitrogen is rigged, metered and worked on a jobsite
- A written assessment where you have asked for one, built from the asterisked problems of Appendix E
- Certificates of completion and an attendance roster for your training file
What you need to provide
Less than people expect.
- A room that seats the group with tables and projection
- Enough floor space for equipment displays where the format includes them
- For the two-day certification, somewhere the checklist exercises can be run as live exercises
- Copies of the procedures and specifications you want taught against, in advance
Running mixed roles in one visit
Most operators do not have a single audience. The people who buy and accept tests need fluency; the engineers and inspectors need calculation practice; the crews need the procedure and the failure modes.
The common pattern is the four-hour briefing for managers and owner’s representatives in the morning and the eight-hour engineering workshop for the technical group, or the full two-day certification for a crew being brought to a common standard.
Because every course is private, the mix is yours to decide rather than something you fit into.
Where we work
HydroTech Testing Services is based in the Appalachian region and works across West Virginia, Ohio and western Pennsylvania, with project work reaching internationally. On-site instruction is arranged case by case — tell us where you are and we will tell you plainly whether it works.