NS Dev
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 posted on 18/5/05 at 01:05 PM |
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Work Amusement this morning.............
At 11:30 today we had the interesting problem of a punctured main incoming 14" gas main!!!!!!!! Seems to have just rusted through, plumbers
went to check the origins of the smell and stuck a hand clean thrugh the side of the pipe!!!
My first site evacuation!!! Transco are here now and it seems to be getting interesting!
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 18/5/05 at 01:08 PM |
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Reminds me Gas detector needs calibration.
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NS Dev
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| posted on 18/5/05 at 01:11 PM |
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There were certainly some headless chicken impressions and concerned faces this morning here! We are the biggest natural gas user in the East Midlands
so when our main factory supply pipe gets holed, the balloon seems to go up very rapidly!!
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MikeR
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| posted on 18/5/05 at 01:23 PM |
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hee hee - well at least your having a fun day out of the office 
errrm, how are you using the computer if you've got a ruptured gas main ? electrickery and gas don't mix very well.....
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flak monkey
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| posted on 18/5/05 at 01:24 PM |
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Thats a lot of gas cant beat regular site maintenance/checkups... (someone going to be in trouble?)
David
PS anyone got a match  
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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Peteff
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| posted on 18/5/05 at 02:03 PM |
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Go out for a walk round and have a smoke. 
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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NS Dev
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| posted on 18/5/05 at 02:15 PM |
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Interesting point Mike, but simple answer.
Gas is now turned off at the main supply house and we have returned to the offices. We have no gas now though so no furnaces which creates a few
problems as a steel plant!!
We are a "no smoking" plant anyway but that has now been made a "NO SMOKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" plant!!
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 18/5/05 at 02:27 PM |
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easy day here,went to work,loaded van,went to cafe,had brecky,get to site,unload van,wait for breaker to arrive,breaker arrives at 1-15,concert
started at 1pm,load van, go home
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 18/5/05 at 02:34 PM |
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Easy day everyday bit early start morrow on call friday 2
friday
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MkIndy7
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| posted on 18/5/05 at 05:14 PM |
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How big was the roll of DENSO tape to fix that!
On a more serious note it may have rusted from the inside out, hence nobody would spot it.
[Edited on 18/5/05 by MkIndy7]
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Ferg
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| posted on 18/5/05 at 05:17 PM |
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Big lump of Plumber's Mait certainly!
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viatron
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| posted on 18/5/05 at 06:14 PM |
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Monday morning was interesting for me too!!
http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/viatron/vpost?id=448177
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NS Dev
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| posted on 19/5/05 at 08:09 AM |
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Doh, that looks nasty that fire!
The update here is that Transco are as much use as a chocolate fireguard. They came, looked worried and went again very quickly after telling us that
they can't legally work on private gas mains of that size. (The pipe is actually 18", not 14"
It's being dug out now and a specialist contractor is coming to remove the pipe bend and fabricate a new one (you can't get them off the
shelf!!!) and fit it asap.
Looks like no production for the next few days..................quite a costly bit of corrosion!!!!!
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omega 24 v6
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| posted on 19/5/05 at 11:21 AM |
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hope it leaked on thier side of the meter and not yours
Just a thought from the thrifty scots
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NS Dev
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| posted on 19/5/05 at 11:22 AM |
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No, ours unfortunately!! That's the main reason that they wouldn't touch it!!
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Browser
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| posted on 20/5/05 at 04:58 PM |
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Pardon me for askin' like, but didn't anybody hear the leak, or is that how it was first discovered? Our gas comes to the pressure
reducing station(Transo compound) at 50 barg, reduced to 23 barg for us, so we'd probably hear a leak (I hope).
Old joke: What steps would you take on discovery of a gas leak on site?
Answer: F****n' big ones!!!!
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NS Dev
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| posted on 23/5/05 at 07:19 AM |
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A combination of sound and smell uncovered it!
It had been known about for a little while (2 days) but was not thought severe enough to warrant evacuation. It was only when during
"examination" of the leak that the hole was greatly enlarged and we evacuated!
The gas pressure is only 30" wg on that supply pipe.
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