Qasem Fandem: About the Author
Engineering Specialist, Saudi Aramco
Qasem is the Quality Manager for Aramco Asia’s China Office. He has 18 years of experience with Saudi Aramco in various fields, including Projects Inspection, Vendor Inspection, Operating Facility, Corrosion Control, and Project Design. He has a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from KFUPM and an MSc degree in Material Science & Engineering from the University of South Florida. Qasem holds ten professional certifications, including API 570, API 510, API 653, API 936, API 577, CSWIP 3.1, NACE Coatings, ISO 9001, Six Sigma, and TapRooT. He was awarded the 2023 Quality Manager Excellence Award from the Saudi Quality Council for his contribution and achievements in improving quality, including creating six patents, publishing 19 papers, inspection technology deployment, creating quality measure performance indices, and contributing to quality standards.
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Published Articles
Cathodic protection is one method to protect assets from corrosion. We’ll review galvanic anodes and ICCP with case studies on their effectiveness.
Pressure testing is necessary to prevent incidents and failures during startup. This article addresses hydrotesting and pneumatic testing along with their challenges.
A case study of advanced digital technology was assessed to resolve the challenges of internal coating of small diameter pipes by accurately and rapidly measuring pipe-end dimensions, and then matching end-to-end pipes with software-based analysis.
Pressure vessel design is crucial in ensuring compliance with safety regulations and facilitating reliability and integrity. This article provides an overview of the ASME Section VIII approach to designing pressure vessels.
Welding imperfections vary in impact from being acceptable to requiring repair. It is important to ensure the quality of welds using NDT and to ensure the strength of the entire piping system with hydrotesting.
