About Analytical TRAINING Consultants (ATC)
Analytical Training Consultants (ATC) is a consultant company specializing in providing the Oil and Gas Petrochemical and Refining industry with recognized, standardized, and recommended practices for proper training and refresher courses. Don Mears is the owner and creator of Analytical Training Consultants (ATC) and is also currently representative of many manufacturers of analytical equipment.
Don Mears has personally discussed this training course plan, (PMI
Certification on API Recommended Practice 578, 2nd Edition) with
several key industry leaders, i.e. Exxon Mobil, BP Amoco, Shell,
Valero, Rohm & Hass, DuPont, etc. and they have requested him to create this course and teach it
regionally. Currently he provides training classes to these industry
leaders on the XRF operation and Radiation Safety for Thermo Scientific Niton Analyzers. These courses are currently taught to the QC/QA,
maintenance, warehouse/stores, engineering, and inspection
departments. These departments and the safety departments have asked
numerous times for us to create a detailed API certified course on
API RP 578. Almost every API approved inspector and PMI Service
Company has indicated to us there is a real industry need to offer
this course.
Analytical Training Consultants (ATC), appreciates both API and
the API RP 578 committee that have created this recommended
practice. Analytical Training Consultants(ATC) believes, they can
offer a great service to the industry by educating the discussed
students proposed in this application on proper “Guidelines and
Application Procedures for API-RP 578, Positive Material
Identification (PMI) Using XRF/OES Technologies”. The first
training course was offered on December 11-12, 2007 and audited by
API for their approval. Analytical Training Consultants (ATC)
and the training course was formally approved by API/TPCP and is now
available as an American Petroleum Institute Training Provider
Certification Program ( API/TPCP) to all the industry needs.
