To be fair we don't normally pull the old pipe out of the ground unless it is in our way to run the new line. I've been on facilities that we found unmarked inactive lines that no one knows what they held or who put them there. Shit has caused many of excavator operator to have a heart attack hitting a 14" pipe where no pipes should be but you're aware that some lines are pushing 2000+psi raw gas or natural gas in the place you're working. We pretty much have to hydro-vac everything on a facility because of this and it cost something like $30,000 a day to have them dig something an excavator could do in an hour for $500-$1000
In Europe they're burning them. What a clown world we live in.
To be fair we don't normally pull the old pipe out of the ground unless it is in our way to run the new line. I've been on facilities that we found unmarked inactive lines that no one knows what they held or who put them there. Shit has caused many of excavator operator to have a heart attack hitting a 14" pipe where no pipes should be but you're aware that some lines are pushing 2000+psi raw gas or natural gas in the place you're working. We pretty much have to hydro-vac everything on a facility because of this and it cost something like $30,000 a day to have them dig something an excavator could do in an hour for $500-$1000