Interventek Subsea Engineering has launched its new shear-and-seal Revolution Valve at OTC in Houston this week.
Interventek’s patented Revolution Valve is designed to provide a high level of sealing with its shearing action, without using any elastomer components for fluid containment. According to the comlpany, “It is easily scaled to meet all well bore sizes, to cut all likely intervention media and its compact size with rotary actuators means it is ideally suited to the challenging confines of in-riser and slim line open water interventions.
The new valve claims to reduce the current cost of manufacture and ownership by approximately 50 percent compared with conventional products. It can also surpass endurance testing over many hundreds of cycles and is specifically aimed towards meeting the highly rigorous API 17G industry standards.