News

Temperature Range for Ball Valves Extended to -29°C

The Connector Subsea Distribution team have successfully qualified our soft seated ball valves to -29°C (previously -18°C). In January 2022, the Subsea Distribution division of Norway-based engineering company Connector Subsea Solutions developed the world’s first compact soft seated 2-inch ball valve rated at 1,035 bar (15,000psi). This product is fully qualified to API 6A PR2F and… Read more »

World’s First Metal and Soft Seated 2″ Ball Valves Rated at 15ksi

The Connector Subsea Distribution team are proud to deliver to our industry the world’s first metal and soft seated 2-inch ball valves rated at 15ksi. In January 2022, the Subsea Distribution division of Norway-based engineering company Connector Subsea Solutions developed the world’s first compact soft seated 2-inch ball valve rated at 1,035 bar (15,000psi). This product… Read more »

Connector Subsea Solutions Acquires Norvalves AS

Connector Subsea Solutions (CSS) has announced today, 5th May 2022, the acquisition of Norvalves AS. The acquisition supplements CSS’ Subsea Distribution portfolio with Norvalves’ range of topside and subsea valves, along with key operational capabilities including in-house design, engineering, and manufacturing. The deal bolsters CSS’ ambitions to develop a world-leading range of Subsea Distribution products… Read more »

Tested to Extremes

Our 2″ 690 bar, metal seated, trunnion ball valve family already has extensive qualification to ISO13628-4 @ -18°C to +121°C (PR2, Endurance & Hyperbaric cycles). A major client required the qualification temperature range to be further increased for use in the Barossa Gas Field Development, Australia. Norvalves design engineers worked closely with the client project… Read more »

Norvalves design DNV compliant

As part of a recent supply to one of our customers they required a design verification report to be carried out by DNV GL on our current 2” metal seated 690 bar ball valve design. The review was completed and we are pleased to announce that our design which is already fully qualified to ISO… Read more »

Company of the year – Aarbakke AS

We are proud to be a supplier of our compact metal seated ball valve and receptacle assembly to Company of the year, Aarbakke AS awarded by the Stavanger Chamber of Commerce. From horseshoes to one of the world’s leading machining companies, in a few years Aarbakke AS has made a downturn to an upturn and… Read more »

Compact valves for Breidablikk

Norvalves delivered 18 compact 2” 690 bar ball valves to be used for the Tie-In pressure caps on Equinor’s Breidablikk project. This is yet another successful delivery to the Norwegian Continental Shelf of our products for the highly demanding conditions of the North Sea. Breidablikk is developed by Equinor in partnership with Petoro AS, Vår… Read more »

Tiltak og Beredskapsplan

Tiltak og Beredskapsplan i Norvalves i forbindelse med Corona-virus utbrudd. Norvalves har innført tiltak i forbindelse med Corona-virus utbruddet. Hvis en situasjon skulle oppstå hvor en kundes leveranse blir direkte berørt vil vi uten unødig opphold informere. Nedenfor følger informasjon om våre tiltak og vår beredskapsplan.   Tiltak og Beredskapsplan i Norvalves i forbindelse med… Read more »

Peregrino valves

Growing in Brazil

Peregrino is an important project for Equinor with estimated oil reserves of 2300 million barrels.  Norvalves are proud to be a supplier on this project as one of our first steps into the Brazilian market. Together with our extended sales network and our parent company Ham-Let Valves & Fittings, Norvalves are well positioned to reach… Read more »

API 17D qualified ball valve

Norvalves’ compact 2-1/16” API 17D qualified ball valve is getting smaller! After many years of success with our line of compact metal seated Ball valves offering class leading ISO 5208 rate A gas zero leakage, Norvalves continue to push the design envelope. Many of our customers are using this valve on installations where space is… Read more »

Do you require 1 or 100 bespoke valves?

Over the last 31 years Norvalves has established itself as a renowned fast-track supplier of bespoke valves. Sometimes it is a one off delivery but for the majority of our global oil and gas clients we are a long-term partner and regularly produce their special designs year after year. When one has a critical system… Read more »

PR2 qualified Subsea Check Valve

Our new ¼” 103 MPa check valve is qualified according to ISO 13628-4 PR2 with a 40 000 cycle endurance test. The first project we will supply this valve for is the Stones project operated by Shell. In this project the valves will be used as a barrier for subsea pumps produces by OneSubsea in… Read more »

Contract award: Zohr field in Egypt

Last week we visited the ONS 2016 in Stavanger and the Monty Python song «Always look at the bright side of life» was played to make us remember there is still some optimism in the industry. We know if there are not enough projects for us in the North Sea, we need to export our… Read more »

Subsea success for PR2 approved valves

Two new projects for metal seated valves with a delivery time of less then 12 weeks! This year Norvalves has proved it is possible to be more cost effective and still retain the high quality demanded by the industry. We have reduced the price of the high-end metal seated subsea ball valve by more then… Read more »

Seawater Harness ready for shipping

Seawater Harness is a bespoke flow reduction product for offshore pumps. The redundancy loop makes it possible to clean the filters without closing the system. Our range spans from 1″ 150lb to 4″ 300lb and is usually made in Aluminium Bronze, Titanium, Duplex or 316. Optional glass peek holes let you inspect the mash to… Read more »

Johan Sverdrup

One more success story

We are proud to be a part of the Johan Sverdrup project! Today we shipped 117 valves, the final batch of 500 valves. Production startup is expected in 2019. Peak production is estimated to be over 500,000 barrels per day (79,000 m3/d), which will make it by far the largest producing oil field in the… Read more »