NDT Procedures for Petrobras cadastro / RQT

Petrobras cadastro / RQT names this requirement as "Certificados SNQC — or evidence of the I-ET-0000.00-0000-970-PSQ-001 route — for NDT, welding, dimensional, painting and fabrication inspectors". The Level III who approves them owns it, alongside the certification scheme rather than replacing it.

The finding auditors record against this document is: NDT technicians presented with ASNT or other employer-based certificates where clause 7 requires SNQC certification, with no evidence of meeting the I-ET-0000.00-0000-970-PSQ-001 alternative. Petrobras publishes far more than most national oil companies, which makes this regime unusually researchable. Supplier registration is documented publicly on the Canal Fornecedor, and Petrobras technical specifications and N-series standards are downloadable from the public Petronect content area without a contract. The commercially decisive document for inspection providers is ET-0000.00-0000-972-P8L-001, 'Requisito Geral de Inspeção de Fabricação', which sets minimum fabrication inspection requirements for direct and indirect purchases destined for Petrobras. What Petrobras does not publish is the internal scoring, weighting and thresholds behind supplier evaluation, so nothing should be claimed about how a bid is actually ranked — a distinction worth making explicitly to any client who asks.

Source: Petrobras specification ET-0000.00-0000-972-P8L-001, 'Requisito Geral de Inspeção de Fabricação', Rev. B, dated 20 October 2016 (Rev. A 19 September 2016, Rev. 0 10 November 2015), downloaded from the public Petronect content area and extracted; sections 1 (Objetivo), 2 (Referências), 6 and 7 (Qualificação e Certificação de Pessoal) and 8 (Planejamento da Inspeção de Fabricação) read directly. Supplier registration process, the named evaluation dimensions (legal, economic-financial, technical, SMS, Due Diligence de Integridade), the certificado de registro cadastral, pre-qualification, the Regulamento de Licitações e Contratos and the Catálogo de Padronização from Petrobras's public Canal Fornecedor at canalfornecedor.petrobras.com.br. Petrobras N-1594, N-1595, N-1596, N-1597 and N-1598 titles taken from the specification's own reference list, not from those standards themselves — note in particular that N-1595 is the radiography standard, not a personnel standard. Limitation: I-ET-0000.00-0000-970-PSQ-001 is named in clause 7 but was not retrievable (404 on Petronect), so the alternative qualification route it defines is not characterised here. Verified 21 August 2026.

What must a ndt procedures contain under Petrobras cadastro / RQT?

It has to satisfy Petrobras cadastro / RQT as Petróleos Brasileiros S.A. (Petrobras) as the contracting party; registration administered through the Canal Fornecedor and the Petronect portal, with technical requirements issued as Petrobras N-series standards and ET / I-ET specifications enforces it: the method-specific instructions technicians actually work to, and the approval that makes them valid. The test is not completeness on paper but traceability — an auditor picks a finished job and works backwards to this document, so anything it claims must be demonstrable on that job.

Who signs the ndt procedures for Petrobras cadastro / RQT?

The Level III who approves them. This regime requires central or third-party certification, so the signature works alongside the scheme rather than substituting for it.

How does a Petrobras cadastro / RQT auditor test this document?

By sampling. They take a completed job, find the technicians and equipment used, and trace each back through this document to the evidence behind it. A document that reads well but cannot survive that trace is the most common finding across every regime, not just this one.

How long must Petrobras cadastro / RQT records be kept?

Petrobras documents the certificado de registro cadastral as a component of the supplier programme and treats registration as something the supplier must keep current. Petrobras does not publish a single fixed validity for technical qualification applicable across all goods families, so no interval should be quoted to a client without checking the specific Requisito de Qualificação Técnica for that family. On the technical side the operative rule is edition control rather than renewal: the specification states that the edition or revision of applicable documents is the one in force at the date of contract signature. Personnel certificates renew on their own scheme's cycle — sixty months for SNQC. Retention is set by the regime and by the client contract above it, and the longer of the two governs. Firms that set one retention period for everything and document it fare better at audit than firms tracking different periods per record type and losing track.

Does a generic template satisfy Petrobras cadastro / RQT?

No. A downloaded template describes a generic firm, and the first question an auditor asks is whether the document describes THIS firm — its methods, its equipment, its people, its actual workflow. Templates are a starting structure; the content has to be the firm's own or the trace fails immediately.

What happens if this document is missing at a Petrobras cadastro / RQT audit?

It is a finding, and depending on the regime it can suspend the certificate rather than merely generate a corrective action. The related finding auditors record most often is: NDT technicians presented with ASNT or other employer-based certificates where clause 7 requires SNQC certification, with no evidence of meeting the I-ET-0000.00-0000-970-PSQ-001 alternative

Related: the Petrobras cadastro / RQT overview, outsourced ASNT Level III cover, written practice development, NDT procedure development, a programme gap assessment, interim Level III cover.