Private instruction
Private pipeline training for operators and utilities
We do not run open classes. Every course is arranged privately for a single operator, engineering firm or contractor, and scheduled around your work rather than ours.
What private means here
One organisation in the room. No mixed cohort, no public calendar, no seats sold to whoever books first. The course runs when it suits your outage window, your crew rotation or your training year — at the HydroTech facility or at yours.
It also means the material can be specific. A closed course is taught against your procedures, your specifications and your acceptance criteria, using your line profiles rather than a worked example from someone else’s project.
Why operators ask for it
- The discussion stays internal. What your crews get right and wrong, where your procedures are thin, which acceptance argument lost you a week last year — none of that belongs in a room with three of your competitors.
- The examples are yours. Segment-break screening on a real profile from your system teaches more than a generic 16-inch line.
- The schedule is yours. Training that has to fit a vendor’s published calendar gets skipped. Training scheduled around a tie-in window gets attended.
- Mixed roles in one visit. The four-hour briefing for managers and the eight-hour workshop for engineers can run back to back.
What stays the same
The syllabus, the instructors and the record. A private course is not a lighter course — it is the same material taught by the same field crews, with the same certificate of completion naming the course, the date, the contact hours and the instructor.
Three formats: a four-hour executive and project briefing, an eight-hour engineering workshop, and a two-day field certification of ten contact hours. Every attendee keeps a copy of the 172-page field book, which is the course text.
Where it sits against your OQ program
This is professional training that supports your operator qualification program. It is not an OQ evaluation, and completing a course does not qualify an individual on a covered task under 49 CFR Part 192 Subpart N or Part 195 Subpart G.
Whatever system you run qualification through, the training sits alongside it and teaches the engineering judgement behind the covered tasks — the part a task-based evaluation is not designed to establish.