Back from a brutal week

David G · Sep 28, 2018

This was the natural gas interconnect upgrade week, and I am glad this is over. We got hit with a series of events that really took the team working together and thinking quickly to recover. There were never any safety issues, but we came real close to losing the ability to move gas due to one site downstream that agreed to a procedure that they did not really understand, and failed to execute their part.

The automatic systems shut down as they should have.

This line moves about one to two billion cubic feet of gas per day.

My brain hurts.

scott mcintosh · Sep 28, 2018

I bet at times your work on those lines gives you ulcers. I helped a friend with his driveway,as they were hauling gravel and I was grading with tractor,he was running a vibrating roller they were testing the underground pipeline with some gizmo.The gas company just about had a heart failure with gizmo because of the vibrations.Scott

David G · Sep 28, 2018

I do not get ulcers, just makes my brain hurt sometimes.

greenmech · Sep 28, 2018

Rest up for the next one! Ron MN

jeffcat · Sep 28, 2018

You are working with liquid? That is an aful lot of gas.

David G · Sep 28, 2018

Nope, gas at pressures between 800 and 1400 PSIG

Loren in Iowa · Sep 28, 2018

Are you still working around Clear Lake, Iowa?

jeffcat · Sep 29, 2018

You mean under that much pressure it stays a gas? Still a lot of gas. No wonder Boston blew a bunch of houses up.

RedMF40 · Sep 29, 2018

Love natural gas. Love cooking with it, heating, just having it around. Irony is there's a 24" line in the road out front. I live about a quarter mile off the road. They'll never run a gas line to my place.

larry@stinescorner · Sep 29, 2018

Can you take some time and take a nice ride on the BMW?That would make you feel much better,,My prescription,,,lol

Crazy Horse · Sep 29, 2018

Red ..... maybe I missed something. You love gas for everything yet there is no gas line to your place nor
will there ever be one. A head scratcher .....

Blackhole49 · Sep 29, 2018

Don't worry Red, if something catastrophic happens to that line in front of your house, you'll be just as dead as if you were sitting on it. 1/4 mile isn't going to save you.

cuby · Sep 29, 2018

When we/folks moved to this farm back in 1949 the house was on natural gas and through the years more lines were put through the farm adding up to five. In 2015 the gas co. decided to shut off and discontinue the line servicing me saying it was to old {put in the ground in 1937} and was having problems. So had to go to alternative fuel {propane} Nat. Gas co. paid for new furnace, new cook stove,new water heater, new 1000 gal tank w/ a full fill plus monies besides. I asked them to hook me to a different line that was not far from the one that served me, but no go. I do miss the Natural Gas as it was always there.

RedMF40 · Sep 29, 2018

(quoted from post at 07:32:01 09/29/18) Red ..... maybe I missed something. You love gas for everything yet there is no gas line to your place nor
will there ever be one. A head scratcher .....

---I think the issue is that the line buried in the road is a major transmission line and also high pressure. Too big to service an individual residence. Anyone on my road who uses gas for their home has a big propane tank outside. Probably enough natural gas passes by every day to fuel a small city. I just want enough to fry up some bacon LOL. BTW growing up we always had a gas line to the house, and my last house ran on natural gas as well.

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