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TRAINING

Practical, On-Site Mentoring in Cathodic Protection, Surveys, and Field Installations

 

Most corrosion problems in the field are not caused by a lack of formal credentials. They are caused by gaps between what a textbook describes and what actually happens on a real pipeline, in real soil, with real equipment. ICG's training is built to close those gaps. Rather than running a structured certification course, we work alongside your team in their own working environment, teaching the skills and judgment that come from decades of cathodic protection experience.

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What We Do

ICG provides hands-on, on-site training for utility crews, engineering staff, and operations personnel. The format is flexible and informal: we come to your site, work with your team on equipment and assets they actually use, and answer the real questions they have. There are no fixed lesson plans, no pre-packaged slide decks, and no certification exams at the end. The goal is competence and confidence in the field, not paperwork.

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This approach works particularly well for owners who want to build internal capability over time without sending their staff to outside courses, and for teams that already have foundational knowledge but want to sharpen specific skills with a senior practitioner.

 

What We Cover

Training topics are tailored to each client, but commonly include:

 
Cathodic Protection Fundamentals

  • How CP systems actually work in the field

  • Reading and interpreting pipe-to-soil potentials

  • Galvanic vs. impressed current systems

  • Common failure modes and how to diagnose them

  • Practical troubleshooting of rectifiers, anodes, and test stations

 
Survey Techniques

  • Annual and periodic CP monitoring surveys

  • Close interval surveys (CIS)

  • ACVG surveys

  • Pipeline current mapping (PCM)

  • Joint Bond Resistance Testing with Digital Low Resistance Ohmmeter (DLRO)

  • Soil resistivity testing (Wenner 4-pin and soil box)

  • Data collection best practices and avoiding common field errors

 
Installation and Construction

  • Installing test stations correctly the first time

  • Anode placement and groundbed construction

  • Bonding, isolation, and continuity

  • Field QC during cathodic protection installations

  • Coordinating CP work with other construction activities

 
Condition Assessment Basics

  • What to look for during direct assessment

  • Interpreting coating condition in the field

  • Recognizing the early signs of stray current and interference

Who It's For

ICG's training is most useful for:

  • Utility field crews who maintain cathodic protection on water, wastewater, or other buried infrastructure and want to sharpen their survey and troubleshooting skills.

  • Engineering and operations staff who oversee CP programs but don't have a daily field practice.

  • Newer technicians and engineers who would benefit from working alongside a senior practitioner instead of (or in addition to) classroom training.

  • Owners building internal capability who want to reduce their reliance on outside consultants for routine work over time.

 

Every member of the ICG team is NACE/AMPP-certified, and the company includes multiple AMPP Cathodic Protection Specialists (CP4). Our training draws on that depth of credentialed experience, but ICG is not an accredited provider of formal AMPP certification courses. If your team needs to earn a specific AMPP credential, you'll need to go through an accredited provider for the exam. We can complement that classroom training with the practical, in-the-field experience that certification courses don't have time to cover.

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Why It Matters

Cathodic protection and corrosion control are easy to do badly and hard to do well. A small mistake in survey methodology can produce data that looks legitimate but isn't, and a poorly installed test station can compromise monitoring for the life of the asset. The cost of those mistakes is rarely visible until much later, when a coating fails prematurely or a survey misses a corrosion problem until it becomes a leak.

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Training is one of the lowest-cost investments an owner can make to improve the long-term performance of their corrosion control program. Done right, it pays for itself many times over in better data, fewer repeat callouts, and assets that last as long as they should.

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