pig launcher

• Anticipated facilities consisting of a mainline valve site and a pig launcher and receiver and a permanent access road.

This is accomplished by inserting the pig into a 'pig launcher' (or 'launching station') - an oversized section in the pipeline, reducing to the normal diameter.

The system is designed to be connected on the topsides of the host platform through either the pig launcher or the umbilical termination unit to remove the blockages.

A delivery station would be built at the end located in the Saint-Nicolas sector, as well as pig launchers at both ends and three cut-off valves spaced along the pipeline.

The area was built to resemble a simulated community with houses, mini-apartments, commercial buildings along with city streets having natural gas infrastructure, and a short gas transmission pipeline with pig launchers.

• Anticipated facilities to be installed near the Dawn Operations Centre of Union Gas include a 38,000 horsepower compressor station, piping interconnects, a pig launcher facility, and measurement facilities.

"275,000 Dth Northwest will be Smart Pigging 15 miles of the 16" Camas-Eugene line south of the Oregon City Compressor Station by installing a Permanent pig launcher and receiver.

A pig launcher was featured in season 2 episode "Pipeline Fever" of the animated show Archer (TV series), wherein Sterling Archer and Lana Caine are tasked with going into a swamp and defending a pig launcher from radical environmentalist Joshua Gray.