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Show Mountain Fuel Co. Installing New Pipeline Facility An extensive pipeline construction construc-tion and reconditioning program is under way along Mountain Fuel Supply Company's major transmission lines between Utah and Wyoming, according to W. T. Nightingale, president. Objective of the program are to increase the transmission capacity of the company's system sys-tem and to improve the reliability reliabil-ity of portions of the system that were originally laid in 1929 when the first pipeline between the Wyoming gas fields and the Utah i market area was constructed. Largest of the projects is a 20 mile section of a 20-inch pipeline pipe-line eastward in Wyoming from a point near the Utah-Wyoming state line to Piedmont. This is ; an extension of a project started last year when 24.4 miles of new j pipeline was constructed east of Coalville into Wyoming. Purpose of this new pipeline, i which parallels or "loops" two existing 18 inch pipelines, is to increase the transmission capa- city of Mountain Fuel's system. In Emigration Canyon east of Salt Lake City, a 24-inch pipeline pipe-line is being constructed to re- place a 16-inch pipeline which ; was originally laid in 1929. The I later pipeline has become diffi-I diffi-I cult to maintain because of its location at the bottom of the canyon where housing and other property improvements including includ-ing road construction have made portions of the pipeline almost inaccessible. The 24 inch pipeline folows a route parallel to an existing 20 inch pipeline somewhat north of I the Emigration Canyon highway. In places the terrain is so rugged that trenching equipment has to be anchored in place in order to function. i When the new 24 inch pipeline i i 3 i ,i j : ice, Mountain Fuel plans to remove re-move and recondition for use elsewhere as much of the old 16 inch line as can be salvaged. However, where the old pipeline traverses 'improved property it likely will be left in place. A new 20 inch pipeline is being constructed from Green River to Kanda, Wyoming, to replace a 6.4 mile section of an original 18 inch pipeline. The old 18-inch pipe will be removed and reconditioned re-conditioned and later will be laid west of Green River. ! The project west from Green j River will be the major unit of the company's pipeline reconditioning recondi-tioning program this year. The project extends from GreenRiver westward for 11.6 miles. Earlier in the year, 1.6 miles of 8 inch pipeline between North Baxter field and Kanda was reconditioned. |
