Wintershall Noordzee – Pigging reduction

Wintershall Noordzee (JV Wintershall Dea Gazprom) Offshore The Netherlands, Block K13 pigging station Reduction of Pigging frequency and use of vent gas for power generation.

Total – Measurement testing facility

Best Practice: Equipment Leaks; Continual Improvement.

Terega – Flaring instead of venting

Terega, a company that operates a transmission system, regularly performs work which requires gas to be vented from pipelines. If gas

SOCAR – Associated gas utilisation

Best Practice: Venting, Engineering Design and Construction.

SNAM – Pipeline pump-down

Best Practice: Operational Repairs; Venting

SNAM – Hot tapping

Hot tapping is an alternative procedure that makes a new pipeline connection while the pipeline remains in service.

SNAM – Converting pneumatic gas

Best Practice: Pneumatic equipment

QP – Gas recovery

Best Practice: Flaring; Engineering Design and Construction

NEDGIA – Commissioning with vacuum pumps

Once the tightness test on a new section of network has successfully finished, but before commissioning, the inner air is purged using a vacuum pump, which extracts the air from the new section.

National Grid – Continuous monitoring

Best Practice: Equipment Leaks; Continual Improvement