Ask a room of engineers to list the types of gas valves and you will get a slightly different list from every one of them. That is not confusion; it is because "gas...
When selecting a valve for high-pressure oil and gas applications, engineers frequently debate the choice between a gate valve and a ball valve. Both serve as isola...
A produced-water injection manifold at a Permian Basin facility had a 4-inch ball valve fail its shutoff test after ninety days. The PTFE seat had cold-flowed aroun...
At a shale well in West Texas, a 3-inch API 6A slab gate valve failed to seal during a routine Christmas tree changeout. The crew had closed the valve, but producti...
Fitting a valve into an oil and gas wellhead is not simply about finding a component that looks robust enough. It is about matching the valve's sealing geometry, pr...
When you receive a quotation for a wellhead gate valve, the nameplate usually shows a rated working pressure and a separate test pressure. These two numbers are the...
At a fracturing site, the last thing the crew wants is a valve that will not move when the treating pressure is 15,000 psi. The actuator is the interface between th...
When a drilling engineer evaluates a replacement wellhead component, the first drawing note is often “per API 6A.” The first question from a new buyer is usually, “...
A high pressure oilfield valve is a flow-control device engineered to contain and regulate extreme wellbore pressures — typically rated from 2,000 PSI up to 20,000 P...
A high pressure oilfield valve is any valve rated to operate at 2,000 psi or above, commonly built to API 6A (wellhead equipment, up to 20,000 psi) or API 6D (pipel...
An oilfield plug valve is a quarter-turn isolation valve that uses a cylindrical or tapered plug with a bored passage to control flow. Rotating the plug 90 degrees ...
An API 6A gate valve is a wellhead and Christmas tree isolation valve built to the API Specification 6A standard, rated for working pressures from 2,000 psi to 20,0...