Guidelines for Installing, Operating, and Maintaining Temporary Saltwater Pipelines

This guidebook describes recommended practices for the accommodation, installation, operation, and maintenance of temporary pipelines within the right of way. The recommendations are based on teh findings and lessons learned from TxDOT Research Project 0-6886 and focus primarily on aboveground temporary pipelines. The book is meant for the following three main user groups: 1. TxDOT division and district personnel responsible for leasing the right of way. 2. Oil and gas operators and their subcontractors. 3. TxDOT district personnel responsible for inspecting and managing temporary pipelines in the field. The opics covered in the guidebook follow the life cycle of a temporary pipeline and range from applying for a lease, water characteristics, constructing pipelines, pipeline crossings, maintaining the right of way, maintaining temporary pipelines, and removing temporary pipelines. The guidelines focuse on critical information for TxDOT and operators but not on prescriptive mandates about how things are to be done.