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Offshore QC Welding Inspection

This document provides information on quality and welding inspection during offshore pipeline and platform installation. It discusses the roles of welding inspectors, NDT inspectors, and painting/coating inspectors in ensuring materials, welding, and coatings meet requirements. Key areas of inspection include material certification, welding procedures and welder qualifications, visual weld inspection, NDT inspection using methods like RT and UT, and painting/coating inspection to check attributes like DFT and adherence. The document also outlines quality documents, codes and standards, and variables that are monitored during production welding.

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Offshore QC Welding Inspection

This document provides information on quality and welding inspection during offshore pipeline and platform installation. It discusses the roles of welding inspectors, NDT inspectors, and painting/coating inspectors in ensuring materials, welding, and coatings meet requirements. Key areas of inspection include material certification, welding procedures and welder qualifications, visual weld inspection, NDT inspection using methods like RT and UT, and painting/coating inspection to check attributes like DFT and adherence. The document also outlines quality documents, codes and standards, and variables that are monitored during production welding.

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Quality/Welding inspection during

Offshore Pipeline and Platform Installation

By Rahman
Suwandhi

Personal Data
Name: Rahman Suwandhi
Graduated: Technical of Metallurgy 1997
Residence: Batam
Office: EMAS AMC Pte Ltd Singapore
Position: Quality/Welding Engineer
Main Business: offshore EPCI oil & gas
company
Contact No: +62 8127041931/+65 94524360
Email: [email protected] or
[email protected]

Basic Requirements
Qualification and
certification required to
support on the job scope
of work are:
Welding i.e. CSWIP 3.1,
CWI-AWS
NDT Level II i.e. ASNT,
PCN
Painting/Coating i.e.
BGAS, NACE

Production flow chart


Material
Receiving

Cutting & Fit


up weld Joint

Welding
process
Visual & NDT
inspection
Painting/Coat
ing
Inspection

Welding inspector role:


To ensure quality of material and
welding meet to the requirement
NDT inspector:
To check weld joint using different
methods i.e. RT, UT, MT/PT
complied to the acceptance
criteria
Painting/Coating Inspector:
To control & monitor of quality
coating meet to the requirement

Quality Documents:
- ITP (Inspection Testing Plan)
- PQP (Project Quality Plan)
- TQ (Technical Query)
- NCR (Non Conformance Record)
- Procedures: Welding, NDT, Painting,
PWHT,
Hydrotest
- Qualified personnel: QC Inspector,
Welder, NDT, Painting Inspector
- Certificates & Reports: material cert, equipments
& tools cert, material & welding traceability record,
NDT report, painting report, PWHT & Hydrotest
report
- MDR (Manufacturing Data Record)

Code/Standard/Specification
Must understand on the following:
Variety of code i.e. material, general
requirements, testing procedure
Product application: structure, pressure vessel,
pipeline, piping process, storage tank etc.
International published i.e. AS, ASTM, API, AWS,
ASME, BS, DIN, EN, EEMUA, ISO, JIS, KS, SNI
Clients Specification: Total, Shell, Chevron,
Exxon, ENI
Third party/class requirements i.e. ABS, LR, GL,
BV, BKI, DNV

Material Inspection
To check the following:
Surface condition check i.e. mill
scale, material damage, rusty,
coating protection
Dimension check i.e. length, width,
thickness, diameter
Purchase/Delivery Order, hard stamp
Material certificates check

Mill Certificates

Welding Procedure & welder qualification test


Propose Welder

PWPS
Prepare test coupon
& Record
parameters

PQ
R

Prepare test
coupon

NDT

NDT

DT

DT

Resu
lt
WPS

Rejec
t
Ac
c

Resu
lt

Rejec
t
Ac
c

Welder Certificate

Welding Inspection
To check the following:
Before welding: approved
procedures in place,
material, consumables &
equipments/tools certificate
available, joint prep &
preheat within tolerance
During welding: control
parameters i.e. HI,
interpass temp, PWHT
After welding: visual check

Welding Inspection
Variables to be control & monitor during
production weld:
Material group i.e. specification,
thickness, diameter
Joint design, edge preparation
Welding position & progression
Welding parameters: voltage, current,
travel speed, Heat Input
Preheat & interpass temperature
Post weld heat treatment

WPS (Welding Procedure Specification)

Visual Inspection
To check the following:
Weld bead, toe blend, weld
consistency, arc strike,
spatter, grinding mark,
mechanical damage,
surface colour,
misalignment, angular
distortion, longitudinal
distortion
Refer to the acceptance
criteria as per
code/standard i.e. AWS
D1.1, API 1104, ASME IX,
DNV OS F101 etc.

NDT Inspection
NDT methods: RT,
UT, MT/PT
Basic testing
Procedure
Qualification Test
Approval NDT
procedure
Acceptance
criteria

Painting/Coating Inspection
Type: Paints,
HSS, 3LPP,
Concrete
Procedure
qualification
test
Painting
inspection i.e.
DFT, pull test,
salt test
Acceptance

Qaulity/Welding Inspection during


offshore pipeline & platform
installation

Any question?

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