Tag: subsea valves

Trendsetter Engineering Inc. is pleased to announce the award of a contract to support the development of Beacon Offshore Energy LLC’s Shenandoah project located offshore Gulf of Mexico.

Global engineering firm Bosch Rexroth has presented an innovation for electrically actuating valves in the subsea process industry.

As depth increases, the face of every man slowly turns cold. As they watch the hand on the gauge advance into the feared red zone, a single thought roams their heads: will it hold? During the terrible wait, some start to hear noises: leaks, gaskets blowing, and creaking sounds. This scene may look straight out of an old submarine movie, but it might as well be about hyperbaric testing a subsea valve.

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.

Subsea valves face the unique challenge of being designed for zero maintenance and leakage for a relatively long period of time; this can range from 20 years to 50 years of design life.

Reliability is critical for the whole supply chain. For subsea assets and equipment, any failure or malfunction within a unit poses not only a major safety concern, but also results in a serious production cost, downtimes, aquatic life and environmental damage and loss of asset.

High precision gearing and actuation expert Harmonic Drive UK has launched a series of offerings, available worldwide, designed to meet the specific challenges faced in a range of extreme sectors such as severe service environments.

The oil and gas sector as a whole is operating in a tough market environment at present and operators, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and the wider supply chain is having to adapt.

Transparency Market Research has published a new report focused solely on subsea valves called Global Subsea Valves Market. Subsea valves are utilized in controlling the material flow via a pipeline or some other apparatus.