Featured Story

Our Featured articles are long reads that require more reading time than our news articles. In this section, you can find our cover stories, compelling content featuring prominent manufacturers, end-user interview with valve experts around the world, in-depth technical articles and interesting project reports from various industries, ranging from oil & gas, chemical and petrochemical to power generation, pharmaceuticals and food and beverage industries.

Subsea Valves for Pre-Salt Drilling

Valves manufactured for subsea applications are held to an extremely high standard. These valves must use specific high-quality materials and be able to withstand corrosive agents and high pressures.

Evaluating the Integrity of a Pipeline

As a Senior Integrity and Corrosion Engineer, Leonardo Araya has handled a wide variety of issues surrounding pipelines, valves and tanks. Valve World Americas Journal was excited to speak with Araya about the several methodologies that are used to assess a pipeline and explore a few case studies involving valves and the mediation of corrosion in carbon steel, stainless steel, and titanium tanks.

Wolseley Industrial Group — Your Industrial PVF Supply and Service Partner

For over 60 years, Wolseley Industrial Group has served industrial organizations with quick and reliable access to high quality pipe, valves, and fittings (PVF) and technical product expertise. As a leading supplier of industrial PVF and general MRO products across North America, their customers have come to trust in their experience in offering solutions that deliver results.

Optimized Technology to Improve Total Cost of Ownership

The current uncertain oil & gas climate requires a flexible and resilient approach in an extremely competitive landscape. Innovation and solution driven thinking is crucial in leapfrogging self-imposed boundaries, leveraging technologies and practices developed and matured in similar industries or embracing newly developed capabilities.

The Art and Science of Control Valve Selection

If you suddenly have the need for a 2-way, flow control valve – from a valve-selection standpoint, what kind of questions do you ask yourself?

Someone Has to Build It: An Engineer Reflects on his Career

Over his 45 years of service at Fluor, Ron Merrick witnessed profound changes across the oil & gas industry, including the standardization of piping and valves and a dramatic increase in digital technology in project planning & management.

Learning to Work as a Team: An Interview with David Amesty, Mechanical Engineer

A common challenge in the industrial sector is finding a solution that works for not only the application, but also the engineering teams. Learning how to recognize when to be a leader and when to be part of a team has been a life-long for David Amesty, Lead Mechanical Engineer, P. Eng.

MRC Global Celebrates 100 Years in Business – The Valve Experts You Can Depend...

One hundred years ago, humanity was recovering from a global pandemic that is estimated to have infected one-third of the world’s population. In this time of uncertainty, Jerry McJunkin set out to build something that mattered. He and his brothers-in-law were certain that if they could solve a problem for their customers and maintain high levels of integrity and service, they could provide for their families and positively impact their communities.

Selecting the Right Steam Control Mechanism

Moving Beyond ‘Business as Usual’ Regulators and Relief Valves to Explore Different Steam Control Options

Valve World Americas – Safety First – Change of Dates

For over a decade, Valve World Americas Expo & Conference has continued to grow, establishing itself as the largest valve event and flow control educator in North America.