Neftyanoe Khozyaistvo, No.5, 63-65, 2000
Technology of progressive cleaning of oil pipelines
It is proposed to use for cleaning of "complicated" oil pipe-lines recently developed technology of progressive cleaning and devices for monitoring, movement control and determination of position of cleaning pigs in case they got stuck inside pipe-line. It is noted, that technology of progressive cleaning is such, as to gradually remove deposits from inner wells of the pipe-line by repeated runs of different cleaning pigs under certain sequence.