Gas Controller Fundamentals for Distribution and Transmission Overview

Course Overview:

This 6-hour course is designed to provide an overview of control room management, natural gas, industry equipment, basic pressure concepts, abnormal operating conditions, pipeline maintenance, and touch on operation and integrity activities.

Target Audience:

  • Gas controllers
  • Supervisors and managers responsible for gas control
  • Other gas control support staff
  • Employees of companies that provide technical services and products related to gas control

Course Format

Virtual Instructor-led


CEU 0.6 | PDH 6


Topics Covered:

  • Overview – class content, Control Room Management requirements in code, overview of industry structure
  • What is natural gas – typical components in natural gas as well as possible contaminants and how the industry deals with them
  • Basic industry materials and equipment – walk through the components that typically make up a natural gas piping system from transmission to distribution
  • Pressure concepts and pipeline hydraulics – provide some basic concepts of how pressure is stored energy and that energy is used to transport gas down a pipeline creating pressure drop, illustrate how that pressure drop changes as the load in the pipeline system changes
  • Abnormal operating conditions – Illustrate how the pressure profile and flow information might change in the event of an abnormal operating condition
  • Pipeline maintenance, operation and integrity activities – illustrate the typical maintenance, operation and integrity activities that might impact the normal pressure profile of the network

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Digital Badge:

Earn a certificate of completion and a digital badge to display on your LinkedIn profile after successfully completing the course.

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