Abstract
The high oil prices in recent years in tandem with the ever increasing number of companies which offer integrity management type of services have significantly increased the demand for more competent and experienced corrosion engineers. Simultaneously, university master courses and on-the-job training have been considered as the two main sources of training for corrosion engineers.
However, observed shortcomings associated with both of these training methods, in some cases, have been producing corrosion engineers who could not carry out their routine and daily tasks competently and efficiently. The main repercussions of this situation are often higher integrity management costs and worsening asset integrity conditions. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to improve, enrich and enhance both university and on-the-job training qualities, through addressing the existing inherent shortcomings, where improvement opportunities exist.
The main primary advantages of such improvements are more competent and more capable corrosion engineers. And the secondary advantages are potentially huge savings associated with asset integrity management costs.
