Pipeline Installation Techniques
Reference Number
NIA_NGGT0069
Title
Pipeline Installation Techniques
Status
Completed
Energy Categories
Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(Oil and Gas, Refining, transport and storage of oil and gas)
Research Types
Applied Research and Development
Science and Technology Fields
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Civil Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)
UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation
Not Cross-cutting
Principal Investigator
Project Contact
National Grid Gas Transmission
National Grid Gas Transmission
Award Type
Network Innovation Allowance
Funding Source
Ofgem
Start Date
01 March 2015
End Date
01 July 2015
Duration
4 months
Total Grant Value
£25,000
Industrial Sectors
Technical Consultancy
Region
London
Programme
Network Innovation Allowance
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Objectives
To review current and emerging pipeline installation techniques, to understand the potential scope for advancement in these technologies into the future. To deliver a report that will enable NGGT to gain an unbiased view of the limitations or development of existing pipeline installation techniques, and how any new techniques are expected to develop into the future.
Abstract
High pressure gas transmission pipelines are typically buried to a nominal depth of 1. 2m. as required by pipeline design codes. In locations where there is a requirement for a deeper burial depth to negotiate a constraint (such as a road/rail/river crossing, unstable ground, building proximity), trenchless techniques such as auger boring, thrusting, pipe jacking and Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) are typically employed. This project is to undertake a study to investigate the potential for advancement of existing and emerging technologies for pipeline installation in the National Transmission Network (NTS). NGGT are seeking to understand how new and existing technologies may evolve into the future, and how quickly these may be expected to develop. Identify all pipeline installation techniques being used worldwide in the gas industry and other pipeline industries, and provide a detailed review of : advantages/disadvantages any limitations in terms of design and construction impacts on the environment indication of the cost of application the range of applicability to gas pipelines implications of differing ground conditions working in proximity to special interest locations analysis based on diameter vs length a view on likely timescales for significant technology development/advancementNote : Project Documents may be available via the ENA Smarter Networks Portal using the Website link above
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