Here is a link to the Body of Knowledge that will be covered on the upcoming examination.

Here is a link to the Publications Effectivity Sheet for the upcoming certification exam.

Course Structure:

1. API 1169 – Recommended Practice for Basic Inspection Requirements for New Pipeline Construction
2. API 1110 – Recommended Practice for Pressure Testing of Steel Pipelines for the Transportation of Gas, Petroleum Gas, Hazardous Liquids, Highly Volatile Liquids, or Carbon Dioxide
3. API Spec Q1 – Specification for Quality Management System Requirements for Manufacturing Organizations for the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industry
4. API 1104 – Welding of Pipeline and Related Facilities
5. ASME B31.4 – Pipeline Transportation Systems for Liquids and Slurries
6. ASME B31.8 – Gas Transmission and Distribution Piping Systems
7. ANSI Z49.1 – Safety in Welding, Cutting, and Allied Processes
8. CGA Best Practices – Common Ground Alliance
9. INGAA – Construction Safety Guidelines, Natural Gas Pipeline Crossing Guidelines
10. ISO 9000 – Definitions only
11. CFR’s – US Federal Regulations (CFR) & Other Reference Documents

Are you qualified to take the API 1169 exam?

API 1169 Pipeline Construction Inspector Certification requirements are based on work experience acquired within the last 20 years. Education and other certifications may also be needed.

Applicants can qualify in one or more of these categories:

1. Inspection Experience (pipeline or general oil and gas)
2. Non-Inspection Pipeline Experience
3. General Oil & Gas Industry Experience
4. Other Heavy Industry Experience

Determine which category applies to you and then provide the information that is required.

1. The minimum amount of experience/education needed to qualify MUST be documented on your application.
2. If you are using education or certification to help you qualify, then official documentation (in the English language) will need to be uploaded into your application.

What is forex?

Quite simply, it’s the global market that allows one to trade two currencies against each other.

If you think one currency will be stronger versus the other, and you end up correct, then you can make a profit.

If you’ve ever traveled to another country, you usually had to find a currency exchange booth at the airport, and then exchange the money you have in your wallet into the currency of the country you are visiting.

Foreign Exchange
You go up to the counter and notice a screen displaying different exchange rates for different currencies.

An exchange rate is the relative price of two currencies from two different countries.

You find “Japanese yen” and think to yourself, “WOW! My one dollar is worth 100 yen?! And I have ten dollars! I’m going to be rich!!!”
When you do this, you’ve essentially participated in the forex market!

You’ve exchanged one currency for another.

Or in forex trading terms, assuming you’re an American visiting Japan, you’ve sold dollars and bought yen.

Currency Exchange

Before you fly back home, you stop by the currency exchange booth to exchange the yen that you miraculously have left over (Tokyo is expensive!) and notice the exchange rates have changed.

It’s these changes in the exchange rates that allow you to make money in the foreign exchange market.