Saint-Gobain Seals to Exhibit at Valve World Americas 2015, Showcasing Their Latest Sealing Solutions Developed for Future Challenges in the Oil & Gas Industry
Summary
Using these quality management methods were key to ensuring that their sealing solutions resulted in a precise fit and met the customers’ functional expectations, leading to reliability and confidence over the lifetime of the product.Investments in R&D and FEA enable Saint-Gobain Seals to meet emerging and future market concerns such as pressure and temperature, sour gas concentrations and low fugitive emission.Over 150 exhibitors from the United States, Asia, Canada, Europe, India and Mexico will be available to share their experience and offer solutions for end users, consultants, distributors, manufacturers and suppliers in this field.Saint-Gobain Seals will be featuring their well-known OmniSeal® spring-energized seal product line, which has been proven successful in a wide range of critical applications from cryogenic to high temperature and high pressure for engineered valves in the upstream and downstream sectors.Using these quality management methods were key to ensuring that their sealing solutions resulted in a precise fit and met the customers’ functional expectations, leading to reliability and confidence over the lifetime of the product.Investments in R&D and FEA enable Saint-Gobain Seals to meet emerging and future market concerns such as pressure and temperature, sour gas concentrations and low fugitive emission.Saint-Gobain Seals supports their customers with difficult challenges in areas that include ultra-deepwater production, high pressure and high temperature, harsh chemicals, rapid gas decompression resistance, long durability at extreme temperature and sour gas concentrations, proprietary Fluoroloy® fluoropolymer compounds qualified to NORSOK M-710 and API6A F.1.13 specifications, metal energizers NACE MR01-075 approved alloys for use in sour gas service, cryogenic temperatures and designs compliant with low fugitive emission international standards ISO 15848 and Shell MESC SPE 77-312.They launched a new ISO 15848-1 compliant, OmniSeal® stem sealing solution at Valve World 2014 in Düsseldorf, Germany, which is targeted to lower fugitive emissions within ON/OFF valves.