Surface Testing

VALVES

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VALVES
•Valves or taps are devices
fitted to piping or equipment
and designed to control the
flow of fluids.
•ex: a 3” gate, ball or butterfly
valve, means a 3” ID

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HIGH pressure MEDIUM pressure LOW pressure
(5000 psi and above) (~1500 psi) (~180 psi)

Flowhead Separators Tanks

Choke manifold, Sand-trap Oil/Gas manifolds
Heater & Steam-exchanger Pumps, Burners
1)GATE valves 1)BALL valves 1)BUTTERFLY
2)NEEDLE valves (~sampling~) 2)PLUG valves 2)GLOBE valves
1)WOM new, (McEvoy, 1)Mapegaz, Gachot
Malbranque, Sereg old) 2)Texseal, Balon
2)Kerotest, Autoclave
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•Used for shut off, (on/off function)
•High pressure (5, 10, 15, 20Kpsi)
•ex: FH, CM, Steam-exchanger,
Sand-trap
•Sealing method:
-metal/metal for WOM valve
-grease sealing compound for
McEvoy valve
•Standard sizes= 3 1/16” to 4 1/16”

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GATE
valves
WOM

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GATE
valves
WOM

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GATE
valves
GATE
WOM

metal/metal seal

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GATE Testing
valves
McEvoy (pressure trapped)

Sealing done Grease fittings for

with the special
Special sealing
grease
compound grease

Grease fitting for

standard grease

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GATE Testing
valves
reservoir
seat
McEvoy
gates
• possibility to
inject grease
under pressure seat

• self-
bottom grease
greasing/sealing fitting for normal
under pressure grease only
with valve closed
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NEEDLE valves
•Used for shut off, (on/off) + Flow
control (bleed off part of flow)
•High pressure (5, 10, 15, 20Kpsi)
•ex: instrumentation on FH, CM,
Steam-exchanger, Sand-trap
•Kerotest (up to 10Kpsi)
•Autoclave Engineers (10, 15, 20K) (~sizes= ¼”, ½”, ¾”)

•Sealing method: metal/metal

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BALL / PLUG valves
•Used for shut off, (on/off)
•¼ turn
•Medium pressure (~1500 psi)
•ex: separator, burners,
pumps, etc.
•Sealing method:
-PTFE (Teflon) seal ring or
seat
Standard sizes= 1” to 4”
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BALL valve (spherical)
Mapegaz

•Sealing= (white teflon

ring)
white teflon
(Spherical)
ring seal

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BALL valve (spherical)
Gachot

•Medium pressure
•Sampling / bleed-
off points
•Sealing= white
teflon seal ring
•Standard sizes=
¼”, ½”, ¾”, 1”
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top
PLUG valve (cylindrical) hexagonal
nut
O-ring
Texseal stem

Seats (black teflon)

•Sealing=
black teflon seat Plug (cylindrical)

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valve
Weco
•Used for shut off, (on/off)
•Low pressure
•Tanks
•Sealing= rubber seal
•Standard sizes= 1”, 2” 3”

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GLOBE valves
•Used for control of flow and shut off
•Low pressure
•Rig Water / air lines
•Sealing= metal/metal
•Standard sizes= 1”, 2” 3”

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Automatic
Control valves
Fisher
•Used for flow control +
throttle action
•Medium pressure
•Separator, Surge tank
•Sealing (not 100%)=
metal/metal
•Standard sizes= 1”, 2”, 3”,4”
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Swing check Flow through valve
valves
•To allow flow in one direction
only
•High/Medium/Low pressure
•Separator inlet, pump outlet Flow ceases or fails below back pressure
•Sealing= metal/metal
•Standard sizes= 1”, 2”, 3”,4”

CHECK valves
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RELIEF valves
Farris
•Spring loaded and set to open at a
given pressure to protect systems
from over pressure
•High/Medium/Low pressure
•Separator, flowlines, Steam-
exchanger, Surge-tank
•Sealing= metal/metal
•Standard sizes= 1”, 2”, 3”,4”

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RELIEF valves
Anderson Greewood
•Piloted safety relief valves
•High/Medium/Low pressure
•New Separator and Surge-
tank
•Sealing= metal/metal
•Standard sizes= 3”,4”, 6”

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SAFETY
GATE / BALL / PLUG valves:
• must not be used for throttling (i.e.:
must be fully open or fully closed)
because a restricted flow through it
will erode the seal or gate or seat,
and the valve will not seal correctly /
reliably.

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SAFETY
GATE valves:
• it is common practice to count
the number of turns taken to
open / close a valve because the
operator can tell if the valve has
become plugged or is not seating
correctly.

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SAFETY
GATE / GLOBE valves:
• it is best to close the gate and globe
valves by ¼ turn after they are fully
opened and vice-versa because over
tightening the valve upon closing may
damage the disk and seat. Leading to
seizure or leakage.

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SAFETY
NEEDLE valves:
• when used with an instrument, the
valve should only be opened enough:
- to permit flow and allow the
instrument to register correctly.
- to allow a quick closure of the valve
and to isolate instrumentation in case
of a sudden increase of pressure.
One or two turns is usually sufficient.
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VALVES

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