Electrical Earthling System Course
Electrical and Power Engineering

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Electrical Earthling System Course
Course Overview:
This course deals in detail with grounding fundamentals and their practical application in the oil and gas sector. Learners will be equipped with knowledge on the designing, installation, testing, and maintenance works of grounding systems as well as understanding issues of power supply safety and reliability.
Discussion topics entail safety grounding, system grounding, lightning protection, and static protection.
Additionally, it explores offshore grounding methods and safeguards against ground loops and static charge accumulation.
Intended for electrical technicians, maintenance planners and supervisors, this training ensures participants are knowledgeable on how to improve operating performance while complying with safety standards in industrial plants, especially within oil and gas facilities.
Course Objectives:
This course has been designed to provide participants with an understanding of the principles of grounding and how grounding systems operate. Participants will also gain an understanding of how these systems are installed, tested, and maintained. Upon completion of this course, attendees should have a better understanding of the principles related to grounding systems within the oil and gas industry. Having this knowledge will help each technician develop confidence and professional enthusiasm, therefore, increasing their efficiency. The knowledge that technicians gained from this course will be further expanded by on-job training and practical experience they will receive throughout the duration of their careers.
Who Should Attend?
This course is designed for electrical technicians, maintenance planners, and supervisors with operation and maintenance responsibilities in an industrial plant.
Course Outlines:
- Basic Grounding
- Safety grounding
- System grounding
- Lightening protection
- Ground electrodes Operating characteristics of grounded and ungrounded systems will be discussed
- The hazards associated with lightening and lightening protection systems used in typical oil and gas facility will be covered
- Basic design and installation of ground electrodes will also be explained
- Grounding Installations
- Offshore grounding
- Ground loops
- Static protection
- Testing grounding systems
- The participants will be familiarized with grounding systems used in offshore installations.
- Grounding power supplies to computer systems and grounding signal wiring to avoid effects of ground loops will be explained
- Techniques used to control static buildup in the oil and gas industry will be discussed