The invention belongs to the technical field of oil and
gas pipeline maintenance, and discloses a
pigging ball for an oil and gas gathering and transportation pipeline, a
pigging system and a
pigging method.The pigging ball comprises a ball body, a
detector is arranged in the ball body, and the
detector comprises a
barrel, a
microprocessor, an ultrasonic thickness measuring module, a positioning module, a communication module and a power source, and the
microprocessor, the ultrasonic thickness measuring module, the positioning module, the communication module and the power source are integrally installed in the
barrel; the
pipe cleaning
system comprises a ball serving
pipe section and a ball collecting
pipe section which are connected to the gathering and transportation pipeline, and an automatic ball serving
assembly and an automatic ball collecting
assembly are arranged on the ball serving pipe section and the ball collecting pipe section respectively. By the adoption of the scheme, automatic sending and recycling of the spherical pig can be achieved,
remote operation is facilitated, the working intensity of workers is reduced, the pipeline cleaning efficiency is improved, meanwhile, safety risks are avoided, in addition, a
detector in the spherical pig is matched, a pipeline can be detected to a certain degree, two purposes can be achieved through one procedure, and the requirement for safe, green and energy-saving construction operation is better met.