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Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Since 1973, Fluidline Valves, a leading industrial valves manufacturer, has been designing high-quality valves. These valves are employed across the globe in a diverse range of industries such as Power, Steel, Oil and Natural Gas, Chemicals, Waste Water, Potable Water and so on. The potential and expertise of Fluidline Valves in design and...
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Houston-based FBV Inc is one of the leading industrial valve manufacturers in the world. An ISO 9001 certified company, FBV’s product portfolio includes gate valves, ball valves, globe valves, plug valve, check valves, and butterfly valves in carbon steel, stainless steel, duplex stainless and alloy materials. FBV provides custom solutions to...
Kaohsiung , Taiwan
(JPE)YEAN HERN was established in 1982 in Kaohsiung Taiwan (Its registered trademark is JPE). We specialize in manufacturing and exporting overseas Quick Coupling, Pipe/ Tube/ Hose, Tube Fitting, Instrument Ball Valves/ Valve Manifolds/ Needle Valves/ Check Valves, Pressure Reducing Regulators, Monoflange, Gauge Valve, Pneumatic and Hydraulic...
South Houston, Texas, United States of America
Houston based American Production Valve is a distributor of industrial valve. The company aims at providing reliable delivery of high-performing valves to the suppliers of various industries including Oil & Gas and Petrochemicals throughout the United States. The designs of gate valves offered by APC are hydro tested. Moreover, the valves are...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Smartech Oilfield Equipments & Spare Parts Trading LLC is a diversified Oilfield Supply Company providing complete range of engineering products & equipments. With utmost dedication, commitment and transparency. We endeavour to provide services to Oil & Gas Marine, Ship Building, Petrochemical and Construction industry in the Middle East and...
Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
Founded in the year 1988, BOTELI Valve Group is located in the Pudong district of Shanghai (China). Today, Pudong is now home to the Lujiazui Finance, the Trade Zone, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and many of Shanghai's best-known infrastructures. Since its incorporation, Boteli has consistently been moving forward. In the present times, the...
Thane, Maharashtra, India
In a passage of two decades, FLUIDCHEM has emerged as a leading valves manufacturer. The company has been delivering robust, reliable and efficient valve maintenance solutions to companies across various industries. FLUIDCHEM Valves occupies a dominant market share in India and has a significant global presence too. Over 800 in-situ valve...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Since Alco Valves was founded in 1977 with the intention of manufacturing superior quality valves for supply to the oil and gas industry, some of the world’s leading names have become a part of the ever growing customer base who require a diverse range of products. From standard products such as instrumentation, ball and needle valves, to large...
Houston, Texas, United States of America
Hy-Lok USA, Inc. is the American master distributor of the Hy-Lok Corporation, an international manufacturer instrumentation valves and fittings.With over 30 years of experience designing, engineering, and manufacturing instrumentation valves and fittings, Hy-Lok continues to set the world standard for quality and performance. Hy-Lok...
Erie, Pennsylvania, United States of America
High Pressure Equipment Company, based in Erie, PA, has been supplying high pressure valves, fittings and tubing to the industry for over 60 years.
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The difficult and challenging operating conditions posed by the oil and gas industry have constantly kept the equipment suppliers and production personnel on high alert. Unique and extreme conditions are present for the service of valves in the industry. Adding to this is the remote location of valve services, bringing to surface another set of peculiar obstructions. It is extremely important that valves are engineered properly for smooth and reliable operations. With the advancement of technology, performance expectations are higher than ever and myriad layers of operations need to be addressed.
Frequently Asked Questions: Valves
Valves find application in all the segments of the oil and gas industry- upstream, midstream and downstream. The main objective of a valve is to control the flow of the medium through a system. Valves are used to start, stop the flow, modulate and control the flow of the fluid, change the direction of the flow, regulate the pressure of the process and protect the piping system. Through effective use of valves, safety and efficient operation of the processes is ensured.
In the upstream segment, valves control the flow of crude oil and natural gas from high-pressure injection systems to choke valves and BOPs installed at the top of wells. In the midstream segment, long pipelines require compressors along the way to keep the product moving, and valves are asked to protect equipment while offering minimal restriction to the flow. When it comes to the downstream sector, the valve requirements include higher pressure designs and metal-seating technology and metallurgies to accommodate the temperatures at which modern refineries operate.
Multi-turn valves are also referred to as Linear Motion Valves. Under this category, the different types of valves are: Gate, Globe, Pinch, Diaphragm and the Needle valve. They are employed to accommodate a diverse range of flow medium. Their objective is to minimize turbulence, erosion and pressure drop.
The refinery segments employing valves are atmospheric distillation, vacuum distillation, hydro treating, catalytic reforming, fluidized catalytic cracking, alkylation, hydro cracking, delayed coking, sulfur recovery, visbreaking, gasification, cube treating and gas plants. For these applications, the ideal type of valves differs widely. However, generally they include multi-torn valves, HF alkylation valves, quarter-turn valves and flow reversal protection valves.
The Control Valves are particularly designed to ensure accurate proportioning control of flow. They automatically vary the rate of flow based on signals received from sensing devices in a continuous process.
The most commonly used valves across the oil and gas industry are: Gate, Globe, Check, Ball, Butterfly, Strainers, Control, Plug and Safety valve.
For the upstream sector, Gate Valves produced with higher alloy materials, are the most relevant and on some occasions, Ball Valves. Their usage is due to their strong resistance to corrosion. Isolation Valves play a crucial role in midstream applications to obstruct the flow during maintenance. As far as the downstream sector is concerned, the valve design solutions are diverse owing to various levels of harsh environment.
They are also known as Rotary Valves. They form the most versatile selection of valves with categories like Plug, Ball and Butterfly valve. The objective is to provide protection against erosion damage, solids that accumulate on the sealing surfaces and in cavities, and residual freeze up, which can prevent operation and cause leakage from packing wear.
The Check Valves, under the category of Self- Actuated Valves, are particularly designed to prevent backflows. When the fluid flows in the desired direction, it allows the valves to open up and the valves are closed during backflow.
Various critical factors need to be considered while selecting a valve such as, the substance to be handled and the required flow rate, the requirement that the valve controls in the manner demanded by the service conditions, capacity of the valve to withstand maximum working pressure and temperature, resistance to corrosion and erosion, actuator and maintenance requirements.