[DavemeisterP]

I’m an archeologist working pipelines at times here in the US, and, from what I’ve seen the pipe gets laid several years in advance of everything else. The Valve stations and other controlling areas get laid last. At least, from what I’ve seen...

[TXnMA]

And, from the other end, I worked on constructing gas pipeline compressor stations. The pipeline was in place well in advance, with the intake side terminated in a pig trap and the discharge side terminated at a valve -- to which we ran several hundred of feet of new line from the compressors. That line was elevated for cooling the gas before the compressed gas went underground.

I would not have been too hard to overspeed those two high-speed centrifugal compressors and blow out that elevated section...

But, doing so would mostly only disturb the rattlesnakes, jackrabbits and kangaroo rats that inhabited the remote New Mexico desert where the station was sited...

[TXnMA]

And, from the other end, I worked on constructing gas pipeline compressor stations. The pipeline was in place well in advance, with the intake side terminated in a pig trap and the discharge side terminated at a valve -- to which we ran several hundred of feet of new line from the compressors. That line was elevated for cooling the gas before the compressed gas went underground.

I would not have been too hard to overspeed those two high-speed centrifugal compressors and blow out that elevated section...

But, doing so would mostly only disturb the rattlesnakes, jackrabbits and kangaroo rats that inhabited the remote New Mexico desert where the station was sited...