Pipelines and valve stations

[barlow12358]

Good day,
I am working in the early stages of engineering that consists of two pipelines (API 42 º and 16 º) of approximately 500 km.

I have previously worked with pipelines (gas) in engineering detail.

I have three questions regarding the design in its early stages:
1. The design of the pipe should be buried or aboveground.
2. Every few kilometers you must place the valve stations. Without taking account of the typical n crossing rivers or crossroads.
3. Request for sending and receiving of cleaning tools (pig launcher).

I wonder whether this is possible to sustain with some standards (API, ASME, etc) into the design practices of the company, something I found but I would support this with any standard.

Greetings and thank you very much in advance for their contributions.

 

[BigInch]

see,
ASME B31.4
CFR 49, PART 195
and all their reference specifications.

Please do consider the locations of cities, towns, villages, roads, railroads, environmentally sensitive areas, valleys, mountains, rivers, streams, spill volumes, product value, extent of possible damage, expense of cleanup and all other pertinent features when locating block valve stations.

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"Pumping accounts for 20% of the world’s energy used by electric motors and 25-50% of the total electrical energy usage in certain industrial facilities."-DOE statistic (Note: Make that 99% for pipeline companies)

http://virtualpipeline.spaces.live.com/

 

[BigInch]

Ease of access by operation personnel to the valve station is important too.

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"Pumping accounts for 20% of the world’s energy used by electric motors and 25-50% of the total electrical energy usage in certain industrial facilities."-DOE statistic (Note: Make that 99% for pipeline companies)

http://virtualpipeline.spaces.live.com/

 

[whammett]

I agree with BigInch. We had a catastrophe during Gustav because our field technicians could not get to a gate valve station because they were placed in close proximity to streams that were prone to flooding.

"I came, I saw, I made it better."
-Ode to Industrial Engineers
William Hammett ChevronTexaco Corp.

 

[TheTick]

William Hammett from Neenah, Wisconsin?

 

[whammett]

Negative. Originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Currently in Houston/Sugarland/Bellaire Tx.

"I came, I saw, I made it better."
-Ode to Industrial Engineers
Will ChevronTexaco Corp.

 

[jte]

...and working for a company which hasn't existed for a few years? The "Texaco" suffix was dropped from Chevron in what 2004?

 

[whammett]

ChevronTexaco Corporation still exists, Chevron is the parent company, which did drop the suffix in 2004.

"I came, I saw, I made it better."
-Ode to Industrial Engineers
Will ChevronTexaco Corp.

 

[jte]

Someone better make the correction to Wikipedia:

In 2001, Chevron Corporation acquired Texaco to form ChevronTexaco.

On May 9, 2005, ChevronTexaco announced it would drop the Texaco moniker and return to the Chevron name. Texaco remains as a brand under the Chevron Corporation.

And somneone better let Chevron know:

http://www.chevron.com/news/press/Release/?id=2005-05-09

http://www.chevron.com/about/leadership/history/2002/

 

[BigInch]

Is this going somewhere interesting.

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"Pumping accounts for 20% of the world’s energy used by electric motors and 25-50% of the total electrical energy usage in certain industrial facilities."-DOE statistic (Note: Make that 99% for pipeline companies)

http://virtualpipeline.spaces.live.com/

 

[whammett]

I fully planned on having a rebuttal arguing my point, but for the life of me I cannot see to justify my claims. When I was hired in 03, it was still under the name ChevronTexaco and I remember when our check stubs changed to Chevron, but I was once told we would still technically be employed by ChevronTexaco Corp. Not even Chevron Pipeline or Chevron Shipping has the name Texaco anywhere in it's website links. I hear people say ChevronTexaco around the company all of the time, but I guess it's just old habbits dying hard.

It's also quite embarassing that I was 1)not only shown up, but 2) shown up about something I would have been expected to know a little more about.





"I came, I saw, I made it better."
-Ode to Industrial Engineers
Will ChevronTexaco Corp.

 

[BigInch]

No matter. Google Oil will soon make short work of the lot.

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"Pumping accounts for 20% of the world’s energy used by electric motors and 25-50% of the total electrical energy usage in certain industrial facilities."-DOE statistic (Note: Make that 99% for pipeline companies)

http://virtualpipeline.spaces.live.com/