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"Fuck you, I like guns."

“Fuck you, I like guns.”

via “Fuck you, I like guns.”

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"Fuck you, I like guns."

“Fuck you, I like guns.”

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Live Like You've Got Nothing to Lose

Live Like You’ve Got Nothing to Lose

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Summary of Alberta Pressure Piping Regulatory and Engineering Requirements

In this summary I try to highlight major regulatory requirements enforced by Safety Codes Act and also ABSA in addition to Engineering requirements as defined in piping codes. For complete and detailed information on Safety Codes Act and ABSA’s regulations, the original publications shall be viewed. Regulatory Requirements Safety Codes Act Pressure Equipment Safety Regulation (PESR) Pressure…

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Shahin Shardi

Professional Bio of Shahin Shardi, P.Eng. Materials Engineer Welding and Pressure Equipment Inspector, QA/QC Specialist

Shahin Shardi is a Materials Engineer with experience in integrity management, inspection of pressure equipment, quality control/assurance of large scale oil and gas projects and welding inspection. He stared his career in trades which helped him understand fundamentals of operation of a construction site and execution of large scale projects. This invaluable experience provided him with boots on the ground perspective of requirements of running a successful project and job site.  After obtaining an engineering degree from university of British Columbia, he started a career in asset integrity management for oil and gas facilities and inspection of pressure equipment in Alberta, Canada. He has been involved with numerus maintenance shutdowns at various facilities providing engineering support to the maintenance, operations and project personnel regarding selection, repair, maintenance, troubleshooting and long term reliability of equipment. In addition he has extensive experience in area of quality control and assurance of new construction activities in oil and gas industry. He has performed Owner’s Inspector and welding inspector roles in this area. Shahin has extensively applied industry codes of constructions such as ASME Pressure Vessel Code (ASME VIII), Welding (ASME IX), Process Piping (ASME B31.3), Pipe Flanges (ASME B16.5) and various pressure equipment codes and standards. Familiarity with NDT techniques like magnetic particle, liquid penetrant, eddy current, ultrasonic and digital radiography is another valuable knowledge base gained during various projects. Some of his industry certificates are CWB Level 2 Certified Welding Inspector, API 510 Pressure Vessel Inspector, Alberta ABSA In-Service Pressure Vessel Inspector and Saskatchewan TSASK Pressure Equipment Inspector. Shahin is a professional member of Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta