Paladon Americas have recently been awarded an order for the supply of 200 complete valve automation systems for Statoil’s Bakken Shale Play. Each system will comprise a 2 1/16” Class 5000 ball valve, a PNS-2-314-SRC6E pneumatic scotch yoke actuator and a local control system. To be installed on the well pad, the systems will provide ESD protection for the production oil lines.
The Bakken Shale Play is located in Eastern Montana and Western North Dakota; as well as parts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba in the Williston Basin. The US Geological Survey has estimated that the Bakken Shale Formation could yield 4.3 billion barrels of oil.
