SYNOPSIS

Failures costs organisation real money and ignoring failures can cost  exorbitant  amounts  of money. Failures is anything that does not met the initial expected or design criteria. In plant equipment, by far the greatest number of failures are item such as bolts and nuts. These items are exceeding cheap to replace compared to do a proper failure investigation. The challenge is to convince the project and users to fund and carry out materials failure investigations.

Fortunately, catastrophic failures are rare in recent years. However, when significant equipment such as pressure vessels, storage tanks, bridges or ships fail, the ramifications can be extensive, in terms of human injury, together with loss of capital revenue. In order to reduce the incidence of costly  failures  in  the  future,  it  is  important  to  learn  from  past  events.  These  lessons  learnt  are incorporated  into  industrial  and  national  codes  of  practice,  and  are  valuable  to  practising engineers responsible for the management of critical equipment and plants.

In this webinar, the understand on the vulnerabilities of materials that need to be managed to avoid  materials  and  corrosion  failures  in  project  execution  and  in  it’s  operate  phase  will  be shared. A few actual past materials/corrosion failures will illustrate the values of performing a proper  materials  failure  investigations.  Further,  the  recently  launched  IMM’s  Materials  Failure Investigations Practisioners certification scheme will also be shared.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Ir. Ong Hock Guan

Ir.  Ong Hock Guan is currently a freelance consultant since March 2024. His last role was the Discipline Head, Materials, Corrosion and Inspection (MCI) Engineering cum Delivery Manager, MCI Engineering/Technical Authority Level 1 since Nov. 2015 based in Menara Shell, KL with a total of 36.5 years working for Shell group.

Ir. Ong has been posted to three (3) overseas assignments in NAM, The Netherlands, The Kashagan Phase 2 project in London under Shell UK and Shell Sakhalin assets in Russia Far East.

He has also been seconded to PETRONAS Carigali Sarawak Operations as Senior Manager for MCI/Production Chemistry/Asset Integrity. He was also the project manager for Bokor Rejuvention cum the Head, Asset Integrity for the Shell/Petronas JV on the Enhanced Oil Recovery Project (EORC).

Ir. Ong has a Master of Science (Engineering Production & Management) from University of Birmingham, UK. He also has a Bachelor of Engineering   (Metallurgy), University of Wales (Swansea), Wales, UK.

Ir. Ong is a Professional Engineer  (PE)  Malaysia, Chartered Engineer C. ENG. UK, European Engineer EUR. ENG., ASEAN Chartered Professional Engineer (ACPE), Honorary, Fellow Member of Institute of Materials, Malaysia (HFIMM).

Ir. Ong is currently the Institute of Materials, Malaysia (IMM), Honorary Treasurer (2024-2026) and the IMM Corrosion Committee Chairperson (2016-2026).