Emerging Skills Program — no certification exam
Internal Corrosion Management
Predicting, monitoring and controlling corrosion on the inside of the wall — where you cannot see it and the coupon is telling you about somewhere else.
Why this matters
The problem this solves
Internal corrosion is the only damage class routinely managed using measurements taken somewhere other than where the damage is happening.
A weight-loss coupon in a header tells you about the header. The failure will be at a low point, a dead leg, a water trap or a spot where the flow regime changed — and the whole discipline is about closing that gap between where you measure and where you lose the wall.
The programme runs the mechanisms first — CO₂ and H₂S corrosion, oxygen ingress, under-deposit attack and microbiologically influenced corrosion — then the monitoring toolkit and its blind spots, then chemical treatment and how to tell whether an inhibitor programme is actually working rather than merely running.
Before you enrol
Is this a certification?
The short answer is no, and it is worth being explicit about it rather than leaving it to be discovered later.
What this programme gives you
- Study notes covering mechanisms, monitoring, chemical treatment and the management plan
- Worked prediction from real fluid compositions and operating envelopes
- A monitoring-location review method you can apply to an existing system
- An EIM certificate of completion
What it does not
- Not preparation for a certification exam — this programme is not AMPP ICT or SCT preparation
- No AMPP, NACE or API credential at the end
- Not a cathodic protection course — that is external corrosion control
- Not a chemical vendor product training
If you need a recognised credential, start at certification exam preparation.
Who it's for
Roles this is built around
Corrosion engineers
Any level
Owning a monitoring programme and the inhibitor spend that goes with it.
Production and facilities engineers
Operating side
Running wet systems where water chemistry drives the damage.
Integrity engineers
Pipelines or plant
Building a corrosion basis for RBI or an integrity management programme.
What it covers
The outline
An outline, not a weighted Body of Knowledge — nobody publishes weights for a subject with no exam behind it.
The environment decides everything
Water chemistry, partial pressures, temperature and flow regime as the real inputs.
Sweet and sour corrosion
CO₂ and H₂S mechanisms, the protective scales that form, and where they fail.
Under-deposit and MIC
Localised attack under solids and biofilm, and why it defeats general-corrosion monitoring.
Monitoring and its blind spots
Coupons, ER and LPR probes, and the gap between the probe location and the failure location.
Inspection as monitoring
UT scanning, ILI and direct assessment, and where each fits in the corrosion picture.
Chemical treatment
Inhibitor selection, dosing, availability, and proving that a programme is working.
Building the corrosion management plan
Threats, controls, monitoring, review triggers — the document that ties it together.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do
- Predict the credible internal corrosion mechanisms from a fluid composition and an operating envelope
- Site monitoring equipment where it will see the damage rather than where it is convenient
- Read coupon and probe data with an honest view of what it does and does not represent
- Judge whether an inhibitor programme is delivering, using availability and not just dose rate
- Choose between ILI, direct assessment and inspection for a given system
- Write a corrosion management plan that names threats, controls and review triggers
Standards referenced
What the programme works from
| Standard | What we use it for | Note |
|---|---|---|
| NACE SP0775 | Preparation, installation, analysis and interpretation of corrosion coupons | The monitoring baseline |
| NACE SP0208 | Internal corrosion direct assessment — liquid petroleum pipelines | — |
| NACE SP0110 | Wet gas internal corrosion direct assessment | — |
| NACE MR0175 / ISO 15156 | Materials for use in H₂S-containing environments | Materials limits in sour service |
| API RP 571 | Damage Mechanisms Affecting Fixed Equipment | The mechanism reference |
FAQs
Questions people ask first
No, and that is worth being clear about. AMPP’s Internal Corrosion Technologist and Senior Corrosion Technologist are real certifications with real exams, and EIM prepares people for both — but through the certification guides, not through this programme. This one is training with no exam behind it.
Only where it touches the internal picture. Cathodic protection is external corrosion control and is its own subject, with its own AMPP certification ladder.
Questions about this programme?
Tell us your role and what you are trying to fix, and we will point you at the right material — or tell you honestly if this is not the one you need.