Technical

Earning SIL 3 certificates for all C-Series and T-Series product lines means MOGAS valves are recognized to meet  internationally accepted standard IEC 61508.

ValvTechnologies, the manufacturer of zero‐leakage, severe service isolation valve solutions, has launched a new website at www.

Dixon has announced the acquisition of Automated Design Services, Inc. (ADS Controls) of Covington, Louisiana. The acquisition includes the product brands Outalarm™ (portable level alarms), Spillguard™ (automatic high level shutdown systems) and Batchguard™ (automatic batch control systems) – all of which will continue to be offered.

Wood Group has been awarded a five year contract with Hess Exploration & Production Malaysia. The operations and maintenance contract is to support Hess’ new-build fixed and floating offshore facilities in the North Malay Basin development area located approximately 150km north east of the Peninsular Malaysia.

Recently, the special valve which was developed by No.11 Institute of Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Group for Shen Hua Group has passed inspection.

ValvTechnologies, Inc., manufacturer of zero-leakage severe service isolation valve solutions, was invited to present on Application Obsolescence and the Nuclear Promise at the Motor-Operated Valve session of the Air Operator Valve / Motor Operator Valve Users’ Group (AOV/MOV) Annual Meeting on January 10, 2017.

Benthic, a global geosciences company, has been awarded a contract by Statoil Canada for an offshore geotechnical investigation in the Flemish Pass region off the coast of Newfoundland.

The contract includes the provision of geotechnical services required by Statoil to determine the slope stability, preliminary geological model and preliminary design parameters of the Flemish Pass area.

KBR has been awarded a technical services agreement by Magnolia LNG to provide cost-verification and other services associated with the delivery of the Magnolia LNG export terminal project located in the Port of Lake Charles, Louisiana.

SKF announced plans to build a new 12,100m2 facility in the greater Chicago area. The Global Technical Center Americas (GTCA) reinforces SKF’s strategy to have these Centers near its important customers to focus on market specific product innovations, leveraging all of SKF’s five platforms – bearings, seals, mechatronics, lubrication systems and services.

In 2009, Tor Eriksen published an article in Valve World magazine on the potential of compact flange connections. (Read this original article here, in PDF format.