Why do gas pipelines run straight for a few hundred metres/yards then do a bit of a U-bend, straight run for a bit, then another U-bend etc. Why the bend? No valves or anything where the bend is.

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Why do gas pipelines run straight for a few hundred metres/yards then do a bit of a U-bend, straight run for a bit, then another U-bend etc. Why the bend? No valves or anything where the bend is.

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Yes, you could say to handle expansion and contraction due to heat and cold and that would be correct.

But the longer answer has to do with joust jams. Really, plates and jousts. There’s a proprietary McMillan method to coupling them together. First they fit donnelly nut spacing grip grids and splay-flex brace columns against beam-fastened derrick husk nuts and girdle-plate jerries, while plate flex tandems press task apparati of 10 verta-pin plated pan traps at every maiden clamp plate bagging. Also, knuckle couplers plate alternating sprams from the t-nut to the SKM, to the chim line. And don’t ask about lift slippage of the girdle plate jerries across the prim fixture. It’s really the prasm span fixture rig. Prims haven’t been used since 2004.