The American Petroleum Institute (API) standards give comprehensive guidelines for gate valve materials and performance on valves and wellhead equipment – but they are also an essential tool when selecting
Blowout Preventer (BOP) and Choke & Kill (C&K) manifold gate valves are critical parts in a Drilling Pressure Control System. A poor functioning gate valve, or one that doesn’t seal
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A valve lubricant, often referred to ‘valve grease’, is distinctly different to the standard, multi-purpose greases which are familiar to most people. The conditions a gate valve faces in the
Effective gate valve lubrication can be the difference between maintaining and losing well integrity, but with no lubricant specs included in API-6A (‘Specification of Wellhead and Christmas Tree Equipment’), how
