Technical Author

Hamidreza Saadat

Senior Welding & Inspection Engineer · Technical Manager at NWE

Hamidreza Saadat is a senior specialist in welding engineering, industrial inspection and asset integrity with more than 25 years of hands-on experience supporting equipment reliability, structural performance and technically defensible inspection decisions.

Welding Inspection
Fitness-for-Service
Pressure Equipment
Pipeline Integrity
RBI
Asset Integrity
25+ Years

Industry Experience

IWE

Qualification

CSWIP 3.2

Senior Inspector

Technical Manager

Role at NWE

Professional Profile

Technical experience grounded in inspection practice.

Hamidreza Saadat is a senior specialist in welding engineering, inspection and asset integrity. His work combines practical field experience with engineering review across pressure equipment, piping and industrial facilities, with particular attention to the evidence needed to support safe and traceable technical decisions.

As Technical Manager at Nord Welding & Engineering (NWE), he contributes to technical strategies involving welding procedures, failure analysis, corrosion assessment, fitness-for-service evaluations and risk-based inspection. His professional focus also includes repair methodologies aligned with ASME PCC-2 and the relationship between inspection findings, engineering assessment and owner decisions.

Hamidreza regularly contributes technical articles, guides and educational content for NWE, translating complex inspection and integrity topics into practical guidance for engineers, plant managers, inspection teams and technical decision-makers.

Technical profile
Qualifications & Focus
International Welding Engineer

IWE qualification

CSWIP 3.2 Senior Inspector

Senior welding inspection qualification

Pressure Equipment & Piping

Inspection, integrity and assessment context

API / ASME Technical Areas

API 579, API 510, API 570 and ASME PCC-2

Asset Integrity & RBI

Corrosion, inspection planning and integrity decisions

Areas of Expertise

Core technical disciplines.

A concise view of the technical areas most closely associated with Hamidreza’s work and published guidance.

Welding & Fabrication

Welding inspection, procedure review, qualification context, repair welding and fabrication-quality controls.

Pressure Equipment

In-service inspection, repair evidence, equipment integrity reporting and pressure-boundary decision support.

Fitness-for-Service

Engineering assessment of degradation, flaws and continued-service decisions within the applicable technical basis.

Pipeline Integrity

Integrity assessment, inspection evidence, degradation review and technical decision-making for piping and pipelines.

RBI & Corrosion

Risk-based inspection readiness, corrosion assessment, data quality and inspection-priority governance.

Asset Integrity

Linking inspection, engineering evidence, repairs, operating limits and owner actions into an integrity basis.

Technical Articles

Selected technical writing by Hamidreza Saadat.

Recent articles covering inspection, pressure equipment, RBI and asset-integrity decisions.

Technical Requirement

Need to discuss an inspection or asset-integrity requirement?

Share the equipment, project or inspection context with NWE so the appropriate technical scope can be defined.