Whereabouts are you? The Belfast gas network reused old pipes laid for gas street lighting, running the gas in smaller pipes inside them at a higher than normal pressure.
Maybe this was a mistake? I’m not well informed enough to know!
> Phoenix took the decision to buy the ‘old towns gas pipelines’ used for lighting the highways and byways decades ago, to use as a conduit for its new pipes – this saved digging roads unnecessarily as you could slide the new pipes inside the old ones – in some cases for miles.
> More innovations followed after the first few years of building a low-pressure system, design moved to the construction of a medium pressure pipeline. Put simply this enabled every pipe, fitting and control to be smaller and more flexible and correspondingly less expensive to build. These two decisions alone reduced the lifetime cost of construction and running the network by tens of millions and in turn lowered the cost of distributing natural gas to our customers – a real result.
Has the gas network been recently installed in that area? I’ve seen some questionable pipe welding done before . 5 in the same area screams poor workmanship. Be interesting to know are the leaks on the street or at the meter boxes at each property
As an enjoyer of fegs I’d at least be upgrading my improvised plant pot ashtray to a sand bucket 😅
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Whereabouts are you? The Belfast gas network reused old pipes laid for gas street lighting, running the gas in smaller pipes inside them at a higher than normal pressure.
Maybe this was a mistake? I’m not well informed enough to know!
> Phoenix took the decision to buy the ‘old towns gas pipelines’ used for lighting the highways and byways decades ago, to use as a conduit for its new pipes – this saved digging roads unnecessarily as you could slide the new pipes inside the old ones – in some cases for miles.
> More innovations followed after the first few years of building a low-pressure system, design moved to the construction of a medium pressure pipeline. Put simply this enabled every pipe, fitting and control to be smaller and more flexible and correspondingly less expensive to build. These two decisions alone reduced the lifetime cost of construction and running the network by tens of millions and in turn lowered the cost of distributing natural gas to our customers – a real result.
Whole article is interesting (but a long read):
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/ulsterbusiness/profile/25-years-ago-northern-irelands-natural-gas-industry-was-born/40869175.html
Has the gas network been recently installed in that area? I’ve seen some questionable pipe welding done before . 5 in the same area screams poor workmanship. Be interesting to know are the leaks on the street or at the meter boxes at each property
As an enjoyer of fegs I’d at least be upgrading my improvised plant pot ashtray to a sand bucket 😅