TPI July 2023

Business & market news

High performance triple-offset butterfly valves To coincide with the anniversary of Shipham Valves reaching its 225th year in operation, the company has expanded its range of high-performance butterfly valves, with the launch of a new range of triple-offset valves.

Several unique design features are incorporated into this range to reflect the wide range of applications they support, delivering a high performance, robust and effective through life isolation valve solution. As well as providing weight and space-saving benefits, the anti-rotational laminated seat design ensures no movement in service to maintain consistent sealing performance, when compared to a clamped design. Shipham Valves’ triple-offset design delivers fast opening and closing quarter turn operations and employs a uniform profile around the conical sealing face to ensure effective sealing is achieved. Three different body types available include: BU04 – wafer-type; BU05 – lug-type; and BU06 – double-flanged. Shipham Valves’ triple-offset butterfly valves are available in different sizes and pressure classes, depending on specific needs and are ideal for applications with high temperature, severe service and critical isolation requirements. The new triple-offset range delivers benefits such as: high performance – across a diverse range of applications; valve service longevity – triple-offset design removing seat wear; laminated metal seat arrangements provide zero-leakage bi-directional sealing; peace of mind – multiple anti-blowout devices integrated into the product to ensure stem retention under all possible failure conditions; Zero leakage sealing performance – in accordance with API 598; certified firesafe design; compact design – when compared to other metal seated isolation valves; and standard mounting interfaces enable easy actuation. Nick Gray, head of engineering and quality, said: “We are pleased to announce the launch of our brand-new range of triple-offset butterfly valves. This new range has undergone a comprehensive product design, development verification

The new range of triple-offset butterfly valves

and validation process to deliver a high-performing, effective and robust triple-offset butterfly valve solution meeting all the requirements of an API 609 Cat. B product.” He added: “Our triple-offset range design is firesafe certified in accordance with API 607, which provides fire test criteria for quarter-turn valves with non-metallic seating, when the valves are exposed to certain fire conditions and pressure.” This range can be manufactured in sizes from 3" to 24" in a wide range of specialist materials, including 6Mo, bronze, duplex, Hastelloy ® B, Hastelloy ® C, Inconel ® 625, Inconel ® 825, Monel ® , nickel aluminium bronze, super duplex and titanium.

Shipham Valves Limited www.shiphamvalves.com

Corinth Pipeworks awarded contract for Equinor deep water pipeline in Norway

The pipes will be manufactured at Corinth Pipeworks’ facilities in Greece and offshore installation work will commence according to schedule within 2025. Ilias Bekiros, general manager of Corinth Pipeworks, said: “CPW has had a huge impact in offshore pipeline markets in recent years, and we are proud to have successfully delivered our pipes to 20 major projects in the North Sea region over the last five years. “We are particularly delighted to be working with Equinor, one of the

Corinth Pipeworks has been awarded a contract to manufacture and supply approximately 15km of 23" and 26" longitudinally submerged arc welded steel pipes for Equinor’s IRPA field development project. The IRPA gas discovery is located in the Vøring Basin, the deepest field development on the Norwegian continental shelf (1,350m deep) and will be developed as tie-in project to Aasta Hansteen platform. This offshore tie-in project will contribute to increased gas supply to Europe and extend the lifetime of the platform.

Corinth Pipeworks has been awarded a major project in the Norwegian sea

pioneering global IOCs, and their frame agreement partner Mitsui, on this project.” Corinth Pipeworks www.cpw.gr

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