Surface Testing

VALV
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VALVE
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•Valves or taps are devices

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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

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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, Malbranque, 1)Mapegaz, Gachot

Valves – slide 3
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•Used for shut off, (on/off function)
•High pressure (5, 10, 15, 20Kpsi)
•ex: FH, CM, Steam-exchanger,

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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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GAT Gate
Seal assembly with 0-ring

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WOM

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Grease Fitting
(for storage
metal seals only)

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valves GATE
WO

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metal/metal seal

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McEvoy

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(pressure trapped)

Sealing done Grease fittings for

Grease fitting for

VALVE CLOSED
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valves seat
reservoir

McEvoy

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gates
• possibility to
inject grease under
pressure seat

•
bottom grease
self-greasing/seali fitting for normal
ng under pressure grease only
with valve closed

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NEEDLE
•Used forvalves
shut off, (on/off) + Flow
control (bleed off part of flow)

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•High pressure (5, 10, 15, 20Kpsi)
•ex: instrumentation on FH, CM,
Steam-exchanger, Sand-trap
•Kerotest (up to 10Kpsi)
•Autoclave Engineers (10, 15, (~sizes= ¼”, ½”, ¾”)
20K)
•Sealing method: metal/metal

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BALL / PLUG
valves
•Used for shut off, (on/off)
•¼ turn

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•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

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•Sealing= (white teflon
ring)
white teflon
(Spherical)
ring seal

Cross Section of a Mapegaz valve

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•Medium pressure
•Sampling / bleed-
off points
•Sealing= white
teflon seal ring
•Standard sizes=
¼”, ½”, ¾”, 1”

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top
PLUG valve hexagonal
nut

Texseal
(cylindrical) O-ring
stem

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Seats (black teflon)
•Sealing=
black teflon seat Plug (cylindrical)

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valve
Weco
•Used for shut off, (on/off)

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•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

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•Rig Water / air lines
•Sealing= metal/metal
•Standard sizes= 1”, 2” 3”

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Automatic
Control
Fishervalves

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•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

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•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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Farris valves
•Spring loaded and set to open at a
given pressure to protect systems

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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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valves
Anderson Greewood
•Piloted safety relief valves

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•High/Medium/Low pressure
•New Separator and Surge-
tank
•Sealing= metal/metal
•Standard sizes= 3”,4”, 6”

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SAFET
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GATE / BALL / PLUG valves:
• must not be used for throttling (i.e.:

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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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GATE valves:
• it is common practice to count

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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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GATE / GLOBE valves:
• it is best to close the gate and globe

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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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NEEDLE valves:
• when used with an instrument, the

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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 the dial gauge in
case of a sudden increase of pressure,
above the range of the gauge.
One or two turns is usually sufficient.
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