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The wire brush encircles the shaft and scours the interior of the pipeline. A scraper pig shown at the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System Visitors Center. In pipeline transportation, pigging is the practice of using pipeline inspection gauges or gadgets, devices generally referred to as pigs or scrapers, to perform various maintenance operations ...
Hydraulically activated pipeline pigging (HAPP) is a pigging technology applied for pipeline cleaning. The basic principle is that a pressure drop is created over a by-passable pig held back against a pipeline's fluid flow. The pipeline fluid passing through the pig's cleaning head is accelerated by this pressure drop, forming strong cleaning jets.
August 15 – Two pipeline workers were injured when a lid on a pipeline pig trap blew off of a gas pipeline, near Barstow, Texas. A fire followed. [43] September 5 – A gasoline pipeline ruptured and ignited at a Plantation Pipeline Terminal in Bremen, Georgia. For a time, there were fears the fire might spread to nearby fuel storage tanks ...
October 15 – A natural gas pipeline under construction in Grand Prairie, Texas was running a cleaning pig without a pig "trap" at the end of the pipe. The 150 pound pig was expelled from the pipeline with enough force to fly 500 feet (150 m), and crash through the side of a house. No one was injured. [44]
June 28 – During a pipeline pig run, two people were killed and two were injured at Atmos Energy in Collin County, Texas. An investigation found that a leak on a mainline valve and improper procedures caused the accident. [22] July 22 – A natural gas transmission pipeline exploded & burned in Ellsworth County, Kansas. There were no injuries ...
A Long Island livestock sanctuary faces 112 counts of animal neglect for allegedly depriving dozens of animals of food, water, and shelter, according to prosecutors. Investigators visited Double D ...
Robotic non-destructive testing (NDT) is a method of inspection used to assess the structural integrity of petroleum, natural gas, and water installations. Crawler-based robotic tools are commonly used for in-line inspection (ILI) applications in pipelines that cannot be inspected using traditional intelligent pigging tools (or unpiggable pipelines).
President Donald Trump has nominated Pierre M. Gentin, chief legal officer of consulting firm McKinsey & Co, to serve as general counsel at the U.S. Commerce Department, according to U.S. Senate ...