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Api Inspector Masterclass: 510, 570, 653, 571, 577 & 579
Published 8/2026
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Language: English | Duration: 8h 34m | Size: 4.84 GB
26+ hours - the complete inspector trilogy plus every source document, 6 full mock exams, worked calculations & code nav
What you'll learn
Sit API 510, API 570 and API 653 prepared - six full mock examinations, worked calculations and code navigation drills
Calculate corrosion rate, remaining life, required thickness, MAWP and the next inspection date from thickness data
Set inspection intervals correctly for vessels, piping and tanks, including the half-life rule and RBI-based intervals
Identify the credible damage mechanisms for any item from its material, service and operating temperature (API 571)
Select condition monitoring locations that will actually detect the expected damage, and evaluate thickness data properly
Review a WPS, PQR and welder qualification package, and apply essential variables and PWHT requirements (API 577)
Design and execute a material verification programme, and manage a nonconformance when the wrong alloy is found (API 578)
Evaluate settlement, floor MRT and shell thickness on storage tanks, including Annex B cosine-curve analysis
Apply the repair, alteration and rerating rules across vessels, piping and tanks, including ASME PCC-2 weld repairs
Assess damaged equipment for continued service with API 579 - RSF, metal loss, crack-like flaws and the FAD
Inspect and test pressure-relieving devices and set test intervals from as-found data (API 576)
Navigate the codes and referenced standards fast enough to finish an open-book paper under time pressure
Requirements
No prior inspection experience is required - every module builds its code context from first principles
Any engineering, technical or maintenance background is enough to follow the programme
Comfortable with basic algebra - every calculation is worked step by step, so a calculator is enough
Access to the relevant API codes is recommended for exam candidates working the open-book scenarios, but is not needed to follow the course
Suitable both as a complete certification programme and as a professional reference to return to module by module
Description
API 510, API 570 and API 653 are the three certifications that define a fixed equipment inspector. Most candidates prepare for one at a time, from a course that teaches the inspection code and stops.
That is not what the exams test.
Each one is an open-book examination drawing on a stack of referenced documents - ASME VIII and IX, ASME B31.3, API 571, 572, 574, 576, 577, 578, 579 and 580. Candidates fail not because they do not know the material but because they cannot find the controlling clause fast enough, or cannot work the calculation cleanly under time pressure.
This masterclass covers all three certifications and every major source document behind them, in one structured programme of over 26 hours.
WHAT IS INSIDE - EIGHT COMPLETE MODULES
API 510 - Pressure Vessel Inspector. The code and the inspector's role, ASME VIII design principles at inspector level, damage mechanisms and corrosion monitoring, inspection practices and NDE, repairs, alterations and rerating, plus a dedicated exam preparation section with worked calculations, code navigation drills and mock exam walkthrough.
API 570 - Piping Inspector. Piping classes and intervals, B31.3 pressure design for inspectors, damage mechanisms including injection points, dead legs and soil-to-air interfaces, thickness evaluation and retirement limits, risk-based inspection for piping, repairs and rerating, with its own exam preparation section.
API 653 - Aboveground Storage Tank Inspector. Tank anatomy and inspection intervals, tank damage mechanisms, shell evaluation and floor MFL scanning, minimum remaining thickness and internal interval setting, Annex B settlement evaluation including cosine-curve analysis, repairs, alterations and reconstruction, change of service and the brittle fracture exemption curve, plus exam preparation.
API 571 - Damage Mechanisms. The 'why' layer under all three certifications: thinning mechanisms from sulfidation to CUI, environment-assisted cracking including chloride SCC and wet H2S damage, high-temperature mechanisms including creep and HTHA with the Nelson curves, and metallurgical and mechanical mechanisms through to integrity operating windows.
API 577 - Welding Inspection & Metallurgy. Welding metallurgy and the heat affected zone, arc processes and consumables, WPS/PQR/WPQ qualification and essential variables, PWHT and hardness control, weld defects and cracking mechanisms, NDE method selection including PAUT and ToFD, and repair and in-service welding.
API 578 - Material Verification & PMI. Why material mix-ups happen and what they cost, XRF and OES capability and limits, risk-based programme extent, traceability and marking, nonconformance management, and integration with damage mechanism assessment and RBI.
API 572, 574 & 576 - Inspection Practices. How the inspection is actually performed: vessel internal and external survey, CML selection and thickness measurement practice, injection points and dead legs, buried and insulated piping, and pressure-relieving device inspection, testing and interval setting.
API 579 - Fitness-for-Service. What happens when the inspection finds something outside tolerance: assessment levels, the Remaining Strength Factor, general and local metal loss, pitting, HIC and SOHIC, crack-like flaws and the Failure Assessment Diagram, creep and fire damage, and the run-repair-rerate-replace decision.
SIX FULL MOCK EXAMINATIONS
Two practice examinations for each of the three certifications - timed, scored and retakeable. Most candidates who fail know the content; what they have not done is sit the paper under conditions. These fix that, and they are the single most useful thing in the programme.
WHY THE TRILOGY TOGETHER
The three certifications share roughly two-thirds of their source material. Damage mechanisms, welding, NDE, materials verification, fitness-for-service and inspection practice appear on all three syllabi. Preparing for them separately means learning that shared material three times, from three courses, at three prices.
Preparing together means learning it once, properly, and then applying it to whichever equipment the paper puts in front of you. That is faster, cheaper and it produces a better inspector.
THE TWO SKILLS THE EXAMS ACTUALLY REWARD
Navigating to the controlling clause quickly, and working the calculation cleanly under time pressure. Every module ends with worked calculations and code navigation drills, and the programme includes structured study plans for each certification.
MORE THAN EXAM PREPARATION
The certifications are the reason most people arrive. The programme is built so that what you take away is professional capability rather than exam technique - the ability to plan an inspection from predicted damage mechanisms, select CMLs that will detect what is actually happening, review a welding package, verify a material, evaluate a finding, and defend a run-repair-replace decision to an owner, a regulator or an insurer.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Engineers and technicians preparing for API 510, 570 or 653, or all three. Working inspectors who want their applied code knowledge sharpened. Inspectors holding one certification and adding the others. Integrity and reliability engineers who specify inspection scope and review findings. Mechanical and project engineers who sign off inspection programmes. And graduate engineers entering inspection who need the whole picture rather than one code at a time.
WHAT YOU GET
Over 26 hours of structured video across 168 lessons and 40 sections, section quizzes throughout, six full mock examinations, worked calculations and code navigation drills in every module, structured study plans for each certification, downloadable reference material, lifetime access on mobile and TV, a certificate of completion, and Udemy's 30-day money-back guarantee.
No prior inspection experience is required - every module builds its code context from first principles. Access to the API codes is recommended for exam candidates working the open-book scenarios, but is not needed to follow the course. Suitable both as a complete certification programme and as a professional reference to return to module by module.
STILL GROWING
This masterclass is actively extended. New modules are added at no extra cost to everyone already enrolled - enrol now and you receive every future addition included.
Built by a practising Chartered Engineer (CEng MIMechE) with over fifteen years delivering safety-critical projects across oil, gas and energy infrastructure.
Enrol now and prepare for all three certifications properly, once.
Who this course is for
Engineers and technicians preparing for the API 510, API 570 or API 653 certification examinations
Candidates pursuing all three certifications who want to prepare once rather than three times
Inspectors already holding one certification and adding the others to complete the trilogy
Working inspectors who want their applied code knowledge and calculations sharpened
Integrity and reliability engineers who specify inspection scope, set intervals and review findings
Mechanical, project and asset engineers who approve inspection programmes and repair proposals
NDT technicians moving into inspection engineering roles
Graduate and early-career engineers entering inspection who need the complete picture rather than one code at a time