Year: 2023

Oliver Twinsafe Trunnion Mounted valves and Floating Ball Valves have successfully been SIL certified at level 3. This new and important milestone provides operators with safety assurances at the highest level and has resulted from many months of engineering design, QA reviews, and audits.

 

A SIL (Safety Integrity Level) is a measure of safety system performance, in terms of probability of failure on demand (PFD). The higher the SIL level, the higher the associated safety level, and the lower probability that a system will fail to perform properly. SIL 3 is the highest rating that can be given to a valve.

 

High Integrity Pressure Protection Systems (HIPPS) and remotely located well-head manifolds are normally associated with SIL certification. Operators are to gain additional safety assurances from installing our ball valves, in that, when the valve is required to perform its fail-safe function, the probability of it not performing is extremely low.

 

SIL 3 certification has been awarded by Exida, a third-party safety assessment organisation. The certification covers our range of Single Isolate valves, and Double Block and Bleed valves comprising two separate isolates within the assembly. Bore sizes for Trunnion Mounted valves range from 1” – 16” and 1” – 3” on Floating Ball valves.

Our onsite UK manufacturing and testing facilities enable us to provide complete and customised valve solutions up to 20” bore and with reassuring reliability and quality. From engineering design, pressure testing, and painting, to global shipping – we handle the whole process.

A recent example of this and now nearing the final stages of a year-long production run are 20mm Bore, Trunnion Double Block & Bleed Valves, tested to 5,000 API.

For information on how Oliver Valves can provide instrumentation and DBB valve solutions for your project, telephone +44(0)1565 632 636 or visit our website at www.valves.co.uk

AF System is an authorised distributor of Oliver Valves and has recently secured an order to supply valves for HPU units on the North Field Production Sustainability (NFPS) Project in Qatar.

The NFPS is an offshore and onshore project located on the North East coast of the Qatar Peninsula. The scope of work is EPCI of various offshore platforms, supporting and connecting structures, subsea cables and pipelines for extracting and transporting natural gas. The project aims to increase gas production by more than 40% to 110 million tonnes per year.

Oliver Valves’ first-class distributor support helped AF System to secure an order for more than 800 Double Block and Bleed valves, 300 isolating instrumentation valves and 3-way valves in Inconel 625 material. The valves are to be shipped to various actuator manufacturers in Italy.

Managing Director Andrea Lenti said “Oliver Valves is a well-known and respected brand in Qatar and around the world. With several offshore investments expected to progress in the near future, we’ll continue to proactively promote Oliver Valves to ensure we maximise this potential.”

To find out how Oliver Valves and our network of distributors can support your project requirements contact us by telephone +44 (0)1565 632 636, email: sales@valves.co.uk or online: www.valves.co.uk

Oliver Valves has appointed Process Control and Equipment (PCE) as an authorised distributor for their instrumentation, Double Block and Bleed, Pipeline, and Hydrogen valves in Spain and Portugal.

As the preferred distributor for the UK, this strong partnership with PCE has been built over 20 years. The announcement follows PCE’s appointment for the Benelux region in 2022, and falls in-line with Oliver’s European strategy to deliver high quality valve solutions ‘nationally’, with efficient after-sales support ‘locally’. PCE is integral to delivering on this.

Oliver Valves territory manager for Europe and Africa, Andy Hole, said “Our unrivalled reputation for valve solutions has been strengthened further with professional representation of our brands in the Benelux region, and we’re very excited to continue the success with PCE in Iberia.”

Having successfully delivered product and after-sales support training to PCE this month, the key learning outcomes were mutually beneficial  – with discussions around market opportunity, and how well we can support each other in achieving our goals.”

For more information on how Oliver Valves and Oliver Twinsafe can supply your project with the very best valve solutions, contact us on +44 (0)1565 632 636 or email sales@valves.co.uk | www.valves.co.uk

Oliver Valves have manufactured a number of 2” double block and bleed valves for a huge offshore project. The bolted end trunnion DBB valves have been designed using ASTM A350 LF6 carbon steel material and are designed to API 6A, with a maximum pressure rating of 5,000 psi. The order forms part of Oliver’s continued supply of DBB valves to the project that include Tie-in and Wellhead platforms.

Valves currently in production at our UK factory in Knutsford, Cheshire, are undergoing a specific manufacturing and assembly process at the request of the customer. This includes custom spray-paint finishing for added protection against the harsh offshore environments of oil, water, and gas injection platforms.

For more information on how Oliver Valves can custom-design valves for your energy project, contact us on +44 (0)1565 632 636 or email sales@valves.co.uk | www.valves.co.uk

Oliver Twinsafe are to supply a range of Modular and Monoflange double block and bleed valves to the Hornsea 3 Wind Farm project located in the UK sector of the North Sea. Hornsea 3 has two platforms, link 1 and link 2. These are unmanned and operated from shore with access to carry out maintenance done by vessel or helicopter.

These High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) offshore converter platforms have a combined capacity to produce 2.852 GW, enough to power the average daily needs of over 3 million UK homes. This makes it the single largest offshore wind project in the world.

Manufactured from 316 Stainless Steel, Super Duplex, and Titanium materials, valves are to be used in cooling systems and firewater applications. Regional Manager for Scotland and Scandinavia, Colin Wood, says, “We’re extremely proud as a business to supply valves for operation on large-scale green energy projects, and it’s particularly exciting to be working with a UK-based green project, such as Hornsea 3.”

We’re committed to supporting a Net Zero Emission future, and have recently launched a range of zero seat leakage valves for hydrogen applications. Our investment in designing new and innovative valve technologies is having an enormous impact and is hugely significant – even a game changer!”

For more information on how Oliver Twinsafe can support your green energy project with the very best valve solutions, contact us on +44 (0)1565 632 636 or email sales@valves.co.uk | www.valves.co.uk

Oliver Valves are to supply a range of Modular and Monoflange double block and bleed valves to the Hornsea 3 Wind Farm project located in the UK sector of the North Sea. Hornsea 3 has two platforms, link 1 and link 2. These are unmanned and operated from shore with access to carry out maintenance done by vessel or helicopter.

These High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) offshore converter platforms have a combined capacity to produce 2.852 GW, enough to power the average daily needs of over 3 million UK homes. This makes it the single largest offshore wind project in the world.

Manufactured from 316 Stainless Steel, Super Duplex, and Titanium materials, valves are to be used in cooling systems and firewater applications. Regional Manager for Scotland and Scandinavia, Colin Wood, says, “We’re extremely proud as a business to supply valves for operation on large-scale green energy projects, and it’s particularly exciting to be working with a UK-based green project, such as Hornsea 3.”

We’re committed to supporting a Net Zero Emission future, and have recently launched a range of zero seat leakage valves for hydrogen applications. Our investment in designing new and innovative valve technologies is having an enormous impact and is hugely significant – even a game changer!”

For more information on how Oliver Valves can support your green energy project with the very best valve solutions, contact us on +44 (0)1565 632 636 or email sales@valves.co.uk | www.valves.co.uk

Oliver Valves has supplied Brunei Shell with a broad range of topside valves for many years, including their Double Block and Bleed (DBB) Valve, and has provided huge cost and time-saving benefits to Shell’s ‘Rejuvenation’ project.

The main purpose of the project, now a decade old, is to update critical equipment on all of their platforms. Updates include safe and reliable DBB valves that comply with ASME B16.34 – an industry standard for valves.

In recent years, Oliver’s relationship with supplying Brunei Shell has further strengthened due to the standardisation of its DBB’s to incorporate a needle valve, and leakage tested as a complete assembly, making them ready for immediate onsite installation. This is saving Brunei Shell huge amounts in both time and in costs.

Renowned for quality and reliability, Oliver Valves is receiving significant interest in the supply of its DBB valves with integrated needle valves to Brunei Shell platforms around the world.

For more information on how Oliver Valves can support your project with the very best DBB valve solutions, contact them on +44 (0)1565 632 636 or email sales@valves.co.uk | www.valves.co.uk

After being awarded a huge contract to support the transmitter industry in the Middle East, Oliver Valves prepared its production facilities for the manufacture of nearly 2,000 units of their 2 and 5 valve consolidated Manifold Valves.

Winning the project comes down to a culmination of efforts, explains Business Development Manager, Haridas Embanath, “Oliver’s are very excited to be working with our clients again to deliver on this huge project. When specifying work, it’s often easy for a supplier’s ability to fully understand the clients’ project requirements to be overlooked in favour of a purely cost-driven solution. The close relationship we have with our clients, ensures a great trust between the two, not only in our ability to meet demanding schedules, and deliver customised valve solutions that are truly world-class, but also reductions in cost.”

Having liaised with the client’s procurement teams in Europe and the Middle East over a 6-month period, Oliver Valves successfully delivered the best cost solution for the client, and is to provide engineering support throughout the project.

To find out how Oliver Valves can custom-manufacture your valves, telephone +44 (0)1565 654 089, email: sales@valves.co.uk or visit the website: www.valves.co.uk

Oliver Valves has won a significant order to supply a large number of Metal Seated Double Block and Bleed Ball valves to a Major Green Field onshore project located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Territory Manager for the Middle East, Haridas Embanath says “winning the order was the result of strong relationships with our distributor network and end users in the region, but it’s really down to the efforts of our engineering and support team that provided the perfect valve solution to meet difficult cost restraints.”

Value engineering is second-nature to Oliver’s. By working closely with customers and engineering consultants, the scope of work can be understood and project objectives fully realised. Cost is a fundamental consideration for customers, and modelling scenarios using various combinations of materials and designs can help to find the best valve solutions possible. Value engineering on this project has resulted in valves manufactured with Carbon Steel body and trim, and Inconel Weld Overlay. The estimated additional saving for the customer is around 20% – 30%.

Pictured: Haridas Embanath. For more information on how Oliver Valves can supply your project with the very best valve solutions, contact Oliver Valves on +44 (0)1565 632 636 or email sales@valves.co.uk | www.valves.co.uk