Pipeline Pigging System
Pig receiver and Launcher
PETRAC designs and builds complete, standard launching and receiving systems that offer you many important advantages in the installation and maintenance of a successful pigging operation.
Our standard launching and receiving systems are complete packages. Valves, piping and handling equipment are already assembled and tested, ready to be installed in the field. That means you don’t waste time laboring overdesigns, engineering specs, quotes from multiple sources or fabricating and assembling component parts.
PETRAC has already done it for you! Each unit is skid-mounted with all the outlets properly sized and located. All you have to do is provide a site to set it, tie in the mainline and the bypass line, and you have a working system.
PETRAC launching and receiving equipment functions efficiently and easily as a complete working unit to minimize manpower and time requirements. More than sixty years of designing and manufacturing pipeline pigs and supplying related pigging services have prepared PETRAC well for designing and building launching and receiving systems. Our experience has taught us what works best, and we have incorporated it into one complete unit, ready to install and use.
This same knowledge and experience are also available to you for designing and building systems that are custom made for your particular application. And there are several options available on our standard units as well.
We welcome the opportunity to tell you more about our complete, standard launching and receiving systems for pipeline pigging.
Pig Launchers and Receivers
The standard PETRAC pig trap designs are capable of launching one and receiving two standard cleaning or displacement pigs. The standard designs include all outlets necessary to successfully launch and receive pigs. These outlets consist of a kick-out or bypass line that is one-third the pipeline size, gauge port, vent port and drain line. The oversize barrels are sized large enough for clearance required to easily insert cleaning pigs with cleaning elements that extend beyond the pig cup diameter.
