Corrosion Events in Colombia

The XCORROSION Summit 2026 in Medellín brings together international experts to present the latest innovations in corrosion prevention and control. With a strong emphasis on sustainability and circular economy principles, the summit focuses on corrosion engineering and asset integrity challenges in the energy and manufacturing sectors, while fostering high-level knowledge exchange and new business opportunities.

This certification prepares professionals to design, install, and maintain cathodic protection systems by mastering advanced theoretical concepts, design calculations, and practical field applications. It is aimed at experienced individuals responsible for protecting assets such as pipelines, tanks, and concrete structures from corrosion using both galvanic and impressed current systems. Certified specialists demonstrate leadership in corrosion analysis, regulatory compliance, and knowledge sharing, ensuring asset integrity and the successful implementation of CP technologies.

This course focuses on in-service inspection and maintenance planning for fixed offshore structures, with an emphasis on corrosion control and integrity management. Participants learn to assess platform corrosion-control systems, apply test methods, identify safety risks and critical areas, understand data-collection systems and platform types, and evaluate key protection systems, including coatings, splash-zone systems, and cathodic protection.

This course focuses on AC, DC, and telluric interference, teaching participants to identify causes and effects, test for interference, and perform calculations to predict AC interference. Through lectures, discussions, in-class experiments, case studies, and group exercises, experienced CP practitioners learn to describe parasitic current effects, recognize coating types, detect stray, AC, and telluric currents, and design mitigation and monitoring strategies to address harmful AC/DC interference on metallic structures.

This course covers boiler operational care, damage mechanisms, and maintenance planning, providing essential strategies for industrial safety and integrity management. Participants will also review regulatory compliance requirements under Resolution 1857/2024 of Colombia's Ministry of Labor.

The event strengthens protective coating inspection skills. It combines standards (ISO, ASTM, NACE, SSPC) and acceptance criteria with hands-on stations featuring 20+ instruments and an industrial case study for inspectors, engineers, QA/QC staff, and applicators.