The tapping sleeve & valve method has been around for more than 60 years. The fun is when you need to insert a valve in-line. In my years as a contractor we would freeze the main on each side with a huge amount of dry ice. Since I retired about 30 years ago there may be a better way nowadays

I enjoyed doing this kind of work several times over in the last 15 years .I miss solving water supply problems .Steel work is good though it's being replaced by HDPE in some works

I don’t know much about pipeline, I’ve usually just done a variety of construction and mainly tank maintenance in refineries. Watching this kind of stuff does make me appreciate the hard work pipeliners do out there! Cool vid

I'm a retired 1104 sec.9 welder after 33 years. This kinda looks familiar haha. Man I really miss jobs like this and the guys especially. Real characters. I'd like to thank the engineers and scientists that constantly trained us. Keeping us alive. Thanks for the video makes me feel good providing natural gas to our country. Only in America. Beautiful.