In the Oil and Gas Facilities, such as Gas Plant, Petrochemical plant,s or Oil Refinery Plant, for example, we will find lots of piping systems. There is a pipe connecting one piece of equipment to another, going up to the pipe rack and down to the pumps. The piping system in the plant will be having different sizes and material types, as well as having different pressure and temperatures. These piping system were all designed by a group of people in the piping department, named a piping design group, and the chap who did it called as Piping Designer.

Then come the piping stress engineer, which has only a responsibility: to ensure satisfactory performance of piping systems, designed by a piping designer, under a combination of applied loads due to weight, pressure, thermal, and or vibration.

The Piping Stress Engineer is also responsible to make sure that pipe supports have been identified at the proper location as well as included into the Piping Stress Analysis calculation if necessary.

In this course, we will be learning about the basic theory of piping stress analysis which used by the Piping Stress Engineer to comply with his main responsibility as mentioned earlier, which is basically to ensure the safe operation of the piping system under combination of loads. The course was prepared based on my 32 years of practical and hands-on experience preparing and performing the piping stress analysis for Oil and Gas Project at various location around the world with World Class EPC Company as well as Oil Operating Company.