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n: (RSPA) a DOT agency that oversees the Office of Pipeline Safety, intermodal containers, highway portable tanks, railroad cars, and anything used in interstate or international commerce not regulated by the coast guard. Under OPA, RSPA has authority over onshore oil and hazardous materials pipelines that are used in interstate commerce. Address: 400 7th Street SW;Washington, DC 20590;(202) 366-4433.

n: see air-cooled exchanger. aerial river crossing n: a river crossing technique in which a pipeline is either suspended by cables over a waterway or attached to the girders of a bridge designed to carry vehicular traffic.

n: a chemical family of specific organic compounds, including monoethanolamine (MEA),diethanolamine (OEA),and triethanolamine (TEA). These chemicals, and proprietary mixtures containing them and other amines, are used extensively for the removal of hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide from other gases and are particularly adapted for obtaining the low acid gas residuals that are usually specified by pipelines.

n: a device that secures, or fastens, equipment. In producing wells with sucker rod pumps, a gas anchor is a special section of perforated pipe installed below the pump. It provides a space for gas to break out of the oil. In offshore drilling, floating drilling vessels are often secured over drill sites by large anchors like those used on ships. For pipelines, a device that secures pipe in a ditch.

n: Means of holding the deadline to the derrick or substructure. Usually this is the primary element of the weight indicator

a device with slips that holds equipment in the wellbore.

n: in pipeline construction, a combination of anchors used to hold a lay barge on station and move it forward along the planned route. Lay-barge anchors may weigh in excess of 20 tons (18 tonnes),and a dozen or more may be needed.

n: a gas measurement device that consists of a mutiple-ported Pitot tube installed inside a pipe through which gas is flowing;it is installed perpendicular to the flow of gas. The length of the annubar is equal to the diameter of the pipe in which it is installed. An annubar senses the difference between total flowing pressure and static pressure;gas volume is calculated from this difference. See Pitot tube.

a gas flow rate measurement device using Pitot tubes. Common in pipelines.

n: a wrapping material consisting of asbestos saturated with asphalt;one element of pipeline coatings. It is no longer commonly used because asbestos can cause respiratory illness.

n: a boring tool that consists of a shaft with spiral channels. An auger may be used to bore the hole for a pipeline that must cross beneath a roadbed.

n: an automatically operated station installed on a pipeline to provide pressure when a fluid is being transported.

n: a welding technique for joining pipe ends. Two general types of automatic welding used in pipeline construction are submerged-arc welding and automatic wire welding.