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The upstream oil and gas industry is estimated to spend more than $10 billion (€7 billion) for valves in a single year for the first time, according to analysis published by the McIlvaine Company.
The analysis appears in Industrial Valves: World Markets, recently published by the company.
In 2015, expenditure will come to around $10.3 billion. Valves purchased for oil and gas extraction will…
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Festo, an automation technology supplier, has launched a new proportional valve VPPX with an external sensor input, offering users improved performance and flexibility, and excellent process quality.
The valve is a proportional integral derivative (PID) controller well-suited for industrial control systems found in process, packaging and water and wastewater applications.
The valve…
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Vortex has announced the newest addition to its Titan Series line of valves.
The RBG (rounded blade gate) is designed for handling abrasive materials and for applications that may require metering. The rapid actuation of the blade can quickly start and stop the flow of material, which makes it ideal for controlling flow rates. The RBG can be equipped with a variety of actuation choices including…
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Shale-Inland Holdings, a specialty supplier and provider of pipes and valves for energy and industrial sectors, has acquired Major Sourcing, a valve automation distributor.
Major will continue to operate under its trade name, Major Inc., and will be a part of Shale-Inland's valves and automation (V&A) platform.
Dave Kuhn, president of Major, will continue to lead the Major business,…
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Smith Flow Control has launched a device that can be mounted to either a valve input handwheel or directly to the valve input shaft to safeguard the valve from excessive torque.
The company says the TorkDrive is suitable for use at oil refineries, power plants, paper mills, water plants and chemical processing facilities. Its main functions are preventing valve damage, which could cause…
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Neste Oil and Metso have agreed on the delivery of automation and valve technology for the refinery unit under construction at Neste Oil's Porvoo refinery.
Metso's technology helps the company with its targets to increase the output of high-octane gasoline and to improve flexibility in production. Construction started in 2013, and the unit is due to come onstream in spring 2015.
The delivery…
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Bestobell Valves has secured an order with China’s Hudong Zhonghua shipyard to supply valves for six liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers.
The contract is the latest in a series from the shipyard for the UK-based President Engineering Group subsidiary’s cryogenic valves.
When completed in 2015, the LNG carriers will be used by Sinopec, the China Shipping Group and Japanese shipping…
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Technology and automation manufacturer Metso has been given a substantial order to be delivered to Saudi Aramco's petroleum refining and petrochemical production complex currently under construction.
The order includes a considerable range of Metso's Neles rotary and globe valves and Jamesbury valves, including control, on/off and safety valves. It also includes the company's intelligent safety…
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Bürkert Fluid Control Systems has introduced a new series of electrically actuated quarter-turn valves.
The 3003 and 3004 series are both designed to offer fast and reliable control to support a variety of applications from 20Nm to 100Nm, says the company.
The compact valves can be powered by a range of both AC and DC supplies as well as offering analogue control inputs and outputs.…
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Oliver Valves, a British valve manufacturer for the oil and gas industry, has reported an £85 million order book after a year of strong sales in 2013.
Increased sales in key markets including Brazil, the Middle East and Asia led to the record year, up 38% compared to the same period in 2012, according to the company.
Around 90% of Oliver Valves' turnover comes from exports.
Brazil is now…
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Fluid dispensing systems manufacturer Nordson EFD is offering a spray enabling precise application of oils, grease, and other medium-viscosity liquids for a variety of industry processes.
The 781S spray valve system uses low-volume, low-pressure technology to accurately apply a fine, uniform coating of material without waste, mess or overspray, says the company.
The valve is designed for maximum…
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Motion and control technologies provider Parker Hannifin has released the R9 diaphragm rocker isolation liquid valve family.
Parker says the new range of 9mm valves improves performance of clinical diagnostic, analytical chemistry, and agent detection systems requiring precision fluid control.
Due to their small size, the R9 valves can be mounted over microplates eliminating transfer lines,…
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Industrial valve specialist AS-Schneider has developed a new manifold especially for use on floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels.
The monoflange with dual double block and bleed function offers good operational reliability and minimum weight, which are both important in floating systems for extraction of crude oil and natural gas, the company says.
AS-Schneider originally…
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Asahi, a provider of fluid handling system solutions and specialist in thermoplastic fluid flow technologies, is now manufacturing diaphragm valves in the United States.
The company's Asahi Type-14 diaphragm valves are available in sizes 1/2" through 2" with one-piece moulded bodies of PVC, CPVC, PP or PVDF. Available diaphragm materials include EPDM, FKM or three-layer EPDM/PVDF/PTFE.
Three…
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Flowrox, a manufacturer of heavy-duty industrial valves, is launching a new pinch valve product designed to enhance current pipeline equipment and processes in the oil and gas, mining, minerals, and metallurgy and waste water industries.
The PVG valve, developed for use where abrasive or corrosive slurries, powders or coarse substances are processed, is engineered at full bore with no flow…
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Midland Manufacturing, part of OPW, plans to launch three new products – two pressure relief valves (PRVs), the High-FlowX and the Smart-Flow, and a detachable handle for bottom outlet valves, Tanktite.
Midland says these three new products will help customers meet DOT and Transport Canada rules for rail tank cars in North America.
The first phase of the ‘Enhanced Tank Car Standards…
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Aseptic diaphragm valves are frequently used to control sterile applications, but small volumes can only be controlled with an inadequate level of accuracy, or not at all.
Gemü has released the 567 BioStar control valve in order to solve this problem. The Gemü 567 BioStar is a 2/2-way globe valve with a regulating needle or regulating cone for high control accuracy and precise dosing,…
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Explosion protection service company Stuvex has released details of its recent product launch, a specialist isolation valve.
The Norex is an explosion isolation valve which is ATEX certified as an explosion isolation device according to the directive 94/9/CE. When fitted to a horizontal pipe within a predetermined distance of the containment system to be protected – usually a filter - it is…
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The first US flag vessel to be operated on liquefied natural gas (LNG) has had valves supplied by Sheffield-based Bestobell Valves.
The company supplied globe and check valves as it is a preferred supplier to Wärtsilä Gas Power Systems (GPS) which produced its LNG Pac fuel system for the ship known as Harvey Energy. Bestobell has supplied cryogenic valves for five Harvey Gulf vessels,…
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