WHAT CERTIFICATION DOES ONE NEED TO DO TO BECOME OR PRACTICE AS A QA/QC PROFESSIONAL OR ENGINEER MOSTLY WRT THE OIL & GAS INDUSTRY.
PLS IM KINDLY AWAITING UR RESPONSES.

If u ve mech.eng background then do CWI-certified welding inspector and as u gain experience do quality mgt course i.e QMS-ISO 19001:2008 so dat u can b a certified quality lead auditor with IRCA-institute of registered chartered auditors. Bt start practicing as a QAQC 2 gain expereince dat d basic. Gudluk

pls any ideas. someone shld pls throw a comment

API 510 - piping inspection certification
API 570 - vessel inspection certification
AWS CWI - welding inspection certificatio
ASME certifications

what does Qa? Qc Engineer stands for?

Quality Assurance or Quality Control are complementary sets of discipline under the quality management profession,the quality management profession itself is still a young profession in the league of management professions but has been demonstrated to contribute immensely to the operational excellence,sustainability and competitiveness of fortune 500 corporations,some of the organization that led in the area of quality management include General Electric(GE),Toyota,Motorola etc and these organization have in one way or the other contributed to the quality management innovations,buzzwords in quality management include TSP(Toyota Production System),Six Sigma, TQM(Total Quality Management),though manufacturing seems to be the cradle for the birth of advanced achievement in quality management,it has penetrated into every practice in innovation and development,Information Technology(I.T),Supply Chain Management(SCM),Project management,Health, Safety and Environment(HSE),Marketing & Customer Service.

There is no way you would talk about quality without mentioning excellence,the fundamentals of quality entails conformance to requirements and as defined by ISO, quality is the totality of characteristics of an entity that bears on its ability to satisfy its stated and implied need.

In order to bring this definition home to oil & gas sector,every product and service requirements are defined to details as to the fitness for purpose,products in this case may include Tubing,Pumps,Compressors and in some cases transportation or construction services,in the case of products they always have technical specifications that has to be met for safety,regulatory and operational compliance and same applies to services but with some level of abstractness since you may be dealing with intangibles.

To ensure the products and services meets the stated(specification) or implied(regulatory) needs,there has to be some means and process to ensuring these requirements are met either proactively or in a situational approach.This entails rudiments like measurements and statistics,in the case of engineering there are loads of tool kits that has been developed to measure physical and mechanical characteristics,the output from these measuring exercise are fed into  the quality control process to ensure compliance or instigate a corrective process.The eventual outcome of these processes are efforts towards achieving quality and operational excellence in the case of services.

Finally,what draws the line between quality assurance and quality control is the approach of this efforts,if its done or designed to be proactive then its quality assurance but if its done as an intervention to produce a corrective result then it falls into quality control,though the line between this processes has diminished as quality management advanced,this explains the twin word QA/QC most time when it is discussed.

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@abinibi. Thanks for the enlightenment.

THE QUESTION STILL REMAINS UNANSWERED.
WHAT PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS CAN ONE DO TO FIT INTO THIS AREA WRT TO THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY.?