Upon Further Inspection
Upon Further Inspection, the mechanical integrity podcast, uses engaging interviews to celebrate the people, stories, and real-world industrial reliability experiences.
Every episode explores topics that matter most to professionals in oil & gas, refining, petrochemical, and other process industries. Through in-depth conversations with industry experts, we discuss themes like continuous improvement, safety, technology advancements, compliance, risk-based inspection, and professional growth.
Upon Further Inspection
Latest Episodes
When You Know Better, You Do Better (featuring Kelly Schupp)
In this episode, we sit down with Kelly Schupp, ASME PCC Standards Chair and Consulting Engineer at Equity, to dive into the world of Post Construction Code. Kelly takes us behind the scenes of PCC-1, PCC-2, and PCC-3, explaining why PCC-1 drop...
I Found My Passion in Corrosion (featuring Abdulrahman Al-Rumaidh)
We are pleased to welcome Abdulrahman Al-Rumaidh, a senior corrosion engineer from Bahrain to the podcast! Hosts, Greg Alvarado and Branden Stucky, learn about his path from mechanical engineering at the University of Bahrain into fixed equipme...
API Summit - The Gray Beards Panel Continues (featuring Ray Konet, John Reynolds, and Clay White)
Recorded live in person from the 2026 API Inspection and Mechanical Integrity Summit in San Antonio, this episode picks up where the "Graybeards" panel, a conference session that was held earlier that morning, left off. Hosts Greg and Branden s...
No Coasting, All Brake, All Gas (Featuring Melanie Brewer)
In Part 2 of our conversation with Melanie Brewer, MI Authority at Third Coast, hosts Branden and Greg dig into the practical realities of standing up a mechanical integrity program in a startup-like midstream environment. After nearly 30 years...
API Summit - Thoughts from the Show Floor (featuring Andri Orphanides)
Inside the 2026 Inspection & Mechanical Integrity Summit… Recorded live in person from the 2026 Inspection and Mechanical Integrity Summit in San Antonio. Andri Orphanides joins our hosts Greg and Branden to talk about planning the 10th Edi...
Fan Mail
Hi - I’m an inspector working third party inspection at an Oil Refinery. I recently discovered the podcast Upon Further Inspection from a webinar I attended this summer. Regarding the recent podcast on PCC-2 and composite wraps: at my previous company we transitioned from having 3rd party install the wraps to our own mechanical guys. This shifted the QC function from 3rd party to us and we were not prepared for that. I started working with the chief and engineering to determine an easily digestible QC/QA criteria for even an inspector to follow. I was not able to see this through but the general consensus at the time was to train us inspectors in how to install a wrap.
Spurger, Texas
