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Master Flo Valve

Case Study

 Profile

Headquartered in Canada, Master Flo Valve Inc. provides surface and subsea “The focus was on using
flow management solutions for the global oil and gas industry. The company’s Hardide-T on our HPHT
customers rely on its choke valves, control valves and actuation, along with its
choke valves that face
expertise and worldwide support to lower cost and optimize production through
reliable flow for the life of their fields. temperatures greater than
350oF, pressure over
 Challenge 15,000psi, or both. Hardide
Master Flo needed a new coating solution for its choke valve stem Coatings worked with us to
assemblies. The coating had to be rated to temperatures as high as 400oF — provide a solution that met
a requirement which eliminated all standard coating options — and be capable
all our criteria, and to fine
of withstanding operating pressures up to 20,000psi.
tune the manufacturing
In addition, resistance to corrosion, erosion and wear were all critical. The process to achieve the
choke valves utilize a metal-to-metal primary stem seal system, so in order to
specific surface finish and
maintain sealability, the surface finish on the stems have to withstand the wear
of hundreds of choke cycles in subsea environments such as single or geometrical tolerance
multiphase production, as well as water, chemical or gas injection. required for these parts,”
Everett Marshall,
 Solution
Engineering Subsea Team
Working together, Hardide Coatings and Master Flo engineered a solution and Lead, Master Flo.
the Hardide-T chemical vapor deposition (CVD) coating is now used to hardface
stems on the Master Flo P4-15k and P4-20K subsea bolted bonnet choke
valves.

Fully qualified to API 6A, API 17D PR2 / PR3 requirements, and designed per
API 17TR8 requirements, the subsea choke valves using the Hardide-T coating
are rated to depths of 10,000ft for temperatures from -20oF to 400oF and
pressure of 15,000psi for the P4-15k and 20,000psi for the P4-20K. The CVD
coating is also used on an application for a capping stack designed to be
deployed in a blow-out situation.  Further information

Everett Marshall, Engineering Subsea Team Lead, Master Flo said: “Any Dan Wilson
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subsea choke valve will need to contend with corrosion issues related to H 2S Development, North
exposure, a wide range of production fluids, acid injection fluids, sea water and America
sometimes drilling fluids. Because of the testing already carried out, Hardide-T C: +1 (713) 677-3504
was a good fit. Our HPHT subsea chokes with the Hardide-T coated stems are
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currently in use in the Gulf of Mexico and performing as expected.”
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Hardide Coatings Limited, 11 Wedgwood Road, Bicester, OX26 4UL, United Kingdom
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