Welcome to the summer edition of your magazine – at last it feels like some good weather has arrived and for me it’s felt a long time coming
this year.
Although things tend to slow down a bit over the summer months ICorr continues to move forward and there is a lot happening in the area of training, so I’ll focus on that for
this issue.
We have identified some gaps in our broader corrosion engineering training offering and have progressed with two new courses,Â
- Microbially Influenced Corrosion (MIC):Â We recently signed a contract with Tony Rizk to develop a training course for MIC. Tony is a leading practitioner on MIC and, more importantly, how to control it, and we are delighted to have partnered with him on this project. The course content should be finished this year and be available in 2022.
- Production Chemistry: At the end of 2020 BP generously donated their training materials related to production chemistry to ICorr. George Winning and myself are now working to turn this into a more generalised training programme which will provide corrosion practitioners with the relevant knowledge of production chemistry problems, and how they relate to corrosion and corrosion control activities. The initial focus will be on oil and gas production.
David Mobbs and Sarah Vasey recently ran a pilot programme for our new Fire Protection Coatings Inspector (level 3) training course with key industry practitioners. This was very successful, and provided useful feedback which will be incorporated into the programme.
We are also excited to have recently signed non-disclosure agreements with the Brazilian corrosion society (ABRACO) which will allow us to work together to develop training programmes for Brazil. Many thanks to Lucia Fullalove and Kevin Harold for making this possible.
The development and updating of our training programmes is covered by our training strategy, and this is now in need of a refresh which will be undertaken in the autumn with around ten ICorr members who are actively involved in developing our training materials. Related to this is a discussion around the best format(s) of our training materials, e.g. classroom, virtual classroom, on-demand.
If you have any thoughts or suggestions on which format(s) we should use, or training, I’d love to hear from you using the email address below.
I hope you are able to take a break over the summer and get some well-deserved rest.
Until next time,
Bill Hedges, Institute of Corrosion President
Email: president@icorr.org
