API 580/581/ASME PCC-3: Risk-based Inspection Program, Technology and Planning Methods - Virtual Learning
Course Methodology
This training course combines lectures teaching the theoretical principles of the risk-based and risk-informed approaches to inspection planning, then link it to the operational situation found in the typical petrochemical / refining plant. The lectures are accompanied and illustrated by the real-life examples and, in a number of cases, first-hand experience of the trainer, giving unique transition from theory to practice. Further, the practical workshops will allow the participants to try to combine own professional knowledge and experience with the newly acquired knowledge during the training course in order to be able to solve practical problems.
Course Objectives
By the end of this Risk-based Inspection Program, Technology and Planning Methods training course, participants will learn to:
- Grasp the RBI process, as applied on static pressurized equipment, piping & storage tanks
- Enhance process safety and potentially reduce or eliminate unit / system downtimes
- Verify and implement most appropriate methods for damage identification & monitoring
- Optimize inspection plan compared with traditional inspection practices
- Increase equipment reliability by proper damage management, hence increasing plant operation efficiency and achieving most favorable lifecycle cost of the assets
- Implement state-of-the-art approach towards the asset management
Target Audience
This Gulf Rowad API 580/581/ASME PCC-3 training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals working in the maintenance, operation and design of the petrochemical and other process industries:
- Asset managers
- Inspectors and NDT specialists
- Maintenance Engineers
- Plant Engineers
- Corrosion and material specialists
Target Competencies
Organisational Impact
The organization will increase the professional level of their maintenance and operation excellence, and, ideally achieve the following goals:
- Technical excellence & application of the state-of-the-art methods in inspection planning
- Systemic approach to the maintenance, as needed
- Utilization of the risk, operation (consequences) and maintenance (probabilities) synergy
- Use of RBI as a tool for decision-making
- Increased safety and asset reliability
- Optimal life-cycle utilization of the fixed assets
- Economic benefits in form of optimal ROI from capital assets
Personal Impact
The participants will gain basics of the RBI principles in the first part of the training course, focusing on the API RP 580, as well as on practical implementation as covered in the API RP 581. The participants will gain the following:
- Understand the RBI process
- Understand the damage mechanisms, their forms and methods to measure the damage
- Learn how the consequences are calculated
- Learn how the probabilities are estimated and updated with new information
- Match the inspection and mitigation strategies to the true state of equipment
- Prepare for the API 580 certification
Course Outline
Introduction to RBI process, API RP 580
- Introduction and Asset Integrity and RBI
- Purpose/general aspects of RBI, RBI benefits & limitations
- Scope, definitions, terms and abbreviations
- Risk Assessment concepts
- Introduction to Risk-Based Inspection
- Planning the RBI Program
- Roles, Responsibilities, Training, and Qualifications
- Data and Information Collection for RBI Assessment
- Damage Mechanism Review
- Workshop: damage mechanisms identification using screening tables
Introduction to RBI process, API RP 580, continued
- Accessing probability of failure
- Accessing consequences of failure
- Risk determination, assessment and management
- Risk management with inspection activities
- Other Risk Management Methods
- Updating the RBI Assessment
- RBI Documentation and record keeping
- Workshop: Qualitative RBI assessment for sample equipment
- Practical session: Certification-like quiz
Introduction to API 581 (RBI) Part 1 - Inspection Planning Methodology & Probabilities of failure
- API RP 581 Scope and definitions,
- Probability of Failure & Consequence of Failure
- Risk analysis and inspection planning
- Probability of failure methodology
- Management system factor
- Thinning damage factor and inspection effectiveness
- Piping mechanical fatigue damage factor and inspection effectiveness
- Workshop examples Probability of Failure Considerations – Thinning & Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC)
Consequence of Failure Methodology
- Consequence of failure types
- Consequence of failure methodology
- Consequence of failure calculation levels
- Consequence Level 1 calculation process and results summation
- Consequences Level 2 calculation process, fluid properties
- Consequences Level 2 – calculation of different release outcomes, QRA methods
- Component-specific calculations (tank bottoms)
- Workshop: simple level 1 consequences calculation
Special Equipment Calculations
- RBI on Pressure relief devices
- Workshop – pressure relief device RBI
- RBI on Atmospheric storage tanks
- RBI on Heat exchanger tube bundles
- Workshop - Tube Bundles RBI
- Furnace tube probability of failure calculation
- Wrap up and summary
- Optional team Quiz API 580 exam
2026 Schedule & Fees
| Date | City | Language | Price | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Jun - 02 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 28 Jun - 02 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 05 Jul - 09 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 05 Jul - 09 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 12 Jul - 16 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 12 Jul - 16 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 19 Jul - 23 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 19 Jul - 23 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 26 Jul - 30 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 26 Jul - 30 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 02 Aug - 06 Aug, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 02 Aug - 06 Aug, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 09 Aug - 13 Aug, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 09 Aug - 13 Aug, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 16 Aug - 20 Aug, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 16 Aug - 20 Aug, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 23 Aug - 27 Aug, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 23 Aug - 27 Aug, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 30 Aug - 03 Sep, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 30 Aug - 03 Sep, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 06 Sep - 10 Sep, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 06 Sep - 10 Sep, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 13 Sep - 17 Sep, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 13 Sep - 17 Sep, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 20 Sep - 24 Sep, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 20 Sep - 24 Sep, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 27 Sep - 01 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 27 Sep - 01 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 04 Oct - 08 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 04 Oct - 08 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 11 Oct - 15 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 11 Oct - 15 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 18 Oct - 22 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 18 Oct - 22 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 25 Oct - 29 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 25 Oct - 29 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 01 Nov - 05 Nov, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 01 Nov - 05 Nov, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 08 Nov - 12 Nov, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 08 Nov - 12 Nov, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 15 Nov - 19 Nov, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 15 Nov - 19 Nov, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 22 Nov - 26 Nov, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 22 Nov - 26 Nov, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 29 Nov - 03 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 29 Nov - 03 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 06 Dec - 10 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 06 Dec - 10 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 13 Dec - 17 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 13 Dec - 17 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 20 Dec - 24 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 20 Dec - 24 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 27 Dec - 31 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 27 Dec - 31 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
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