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GA Valves provide air valves, and air vent and vacuum solutions applications the oil and gas, petrochemical, marine and water utilities industries.
GA Valves provide air valves, and air vent and vacuum solutions applications the oil and gas, petrochemical, marine and water utilities industries.
Offering a wide range of exotic materials, GA Valves specialises in valves to the offshore industry.
The company focuses on working with the client to finalise the specification and valve sizing and to ensure agreed deliveries, certification and documentation requirements are met.
Manufactured in the UK, GA Valves make components in various materials that give high protection in adverse environments associated with offshore applications, seawater, service or indeed any other arduous environments. These materials include super duplex, titanium, duplex, stainless-steel, 6Mo Hastelloy®, Monel®, Inconel®, aluminium bronze and gunmetal.
The company’s air valves come with a wide range of detailed material testing to meet each project requirement, and are available with various functions, including:
Valves are customisable with options such as a variable throttle device to give adjustable venting control, inflow and outflow check device for one-way airflow, and flanged outlet for piping away facility.
Valves can be coated to suit specific applications with a choice of rilsan nylon, fusion-bonded epoxy or to customer’s specifications and colours.
GA Valves also use UK foundries that are NORSOK M-650 approved and any raw materials are from within the UK and EU.
Isolation valves can be supplied with a choice of ball, globe, butterfly or gate valves, with flanged or screwed connections to suit the air valves or individual use.
GA Valves is accredited to BS EN ISO 9001/2000 by Lloyds, and complies with Achilles First Point Assessment (FPAL) for suppliers to the oil and gas industry.
GA industries USA manufactures a full range of pilot operated differential piston control valves.
Dorot’s range of control valves includes pilot-operated diaphragm control valves for a wide range of applications and materials, including:
GA Valves offers a full range of fire protection control valves for use on any water supply application, including water flow for deluge, pre-action or foam-water type sprinkler systems.
Custom-built valves and special UV-protected coatings are also available.
With more than 26 years enviable experience in the UK and overseas markets, GA Valves Sales provides a comprehensive package in design, manufacture and distribution of a range of engineered waterworks valves and associated ancillary equipment to the water process and allied industries.
Air Valves for Offshore and Seawater Applications
Girassol is one of the four major production hubs of Block 17, which is operated by Total and its consortium partners.
Hibernia is located in the Jeanne d’Arc Basin, 315km east of St John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, in a water depth of 80m.
The Dukhan field, operated by Qatar Petroleum (QP), is one of the largest producing oil fields on the west coast of the Qatar peninsula.
Bonga is the first deepwater project for the Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO) and for Nigeria.
The South Pars field located in Iran is the northern extension of Qatar’s giant North Field. It covers an area of 500 square miles and is located 3,000m below the seabed at a water depth of 65m.
The Prirazlomnoye oilfield is located south of Novaya Zemla in northern Russia on the Pechora sea shelf, at a distance o
Bayu-Undan is located 500km offshore Darwin, Australia, in the Timor Sea, and is 250km south of East Timor.
Discovered in July 2000, Kashagan was described as the largest field found in the past 30 years, the largest outside of the Middle East, with a projected output close to that of the Ghawar field in Saudi Arabia.
The Valhall field was discovered in 1975 and came online in 1982. It is operated by BP, which holds a 35.95% interest while the remaining 64.05% interest is held by Hess Norge.
The Jasmine field is situated in blocks 30/6 and 30/7a of the central North Sea. The gas and condensate field lies at a water depth of 266ft and is considered to be the UK's largest discovery since the mid-1990s.
The original Ekofisk area development consisted of eight oil and gas fields, namely Cod, Ekofisk, West Ekofisk, Tor, Albuskjell, Eldfisk, Edda and Embla.
Elgin and Franklin lie 93m deep in the water the UK North Sea's Central Graben, approximately 240km east of Aberdeen.
The Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) field lies 120km off the coast of Azerbaijan in 120m of water and contains 5.4 billion barrels of recoverable oil.
The Buzzard field is located in the Outer Moray Firth, central North Sea, 100km north-east of Aberdeen, UK, and 55km from the coast at Peterhead.
Hanze was Veba Oil's (now Petro-Canada's) first operatorship and the largest field to be developed in the Dutch North Sea.
The Ormen Lange field is located in the Norwegian Sea, approximately 140km west of Kristiansund, Norway.
Brutus is located 165 miles south-west of New Orleans, USA.
The Snorre field lies in blocks 34 / 4 and 34 / 7, approximately 200km west of Floro in the Norwegian North Sea.
Sakhalin I consists of the development of the Odoptu field (oil and gas, discovered in 1977) and the Chayvo field (mainly gas, discovered in 1979).
The Terra Nova field is located 350km east-south-east (ESE) of St John's Newfoundland and 35km south-east of Hibernia.
The Jotun field is located on the Utsira High, between the Balder and Heimdal fields, approximately 200km west of Stavanger, Norway.
The Sable Offshore Energy Project lies near Sable Island, 10km to 40km north of the edge of the Scotian Shelf, offshore Nova Scotia, in water depths ranging between 20m and 80m.
Shearwater lies in the Central Graben area of the central North Sea, approximately 200km east of Aberdeen in 90m (995ft) of water.
South Arne is located in the Danish sector of the North Sea, in block DK 5604/29.
The three Triton fields lie in the North Sea, 190km east of Aberdeen.
With its original reservoirs gradually depleting, Conoco has begun to carry out substantial changes to extend Viking B's field life well into the next century.
Visund was developed using a semi-submersible steel drilling, production and quarters platform, connected to a subsea completion system.
The Ekpe gas compression platform is located in a water depth of 50m.
Alba is located in block 16 / 26, 130 miles north-east of Aberdeen. The field lies in a water depth of approximately 138
The Åsgard oilfield lies on the Haltenbank in the Norwegian Sea, 200km from Norway and 50km south of Statoil's Heidrun field.
The Banff field lies 25km south east of the Gannet accumulations in the Central North Sea, 200km east of Aberdeen, UK.
The Britannia field, discovered in the mid 1970s, is the first in the UK sector of the North Sea to be operated jointly
The Bruce field was originally developed under phase I, using two bridge-linked platforms, both connected to the main 32in Frigg trunkline by a 6km, 32in-diameter gas-export pipeline taking gas to the St Fergus Terminal.
Erskine was originally discovered in 1981, during the drilling of a north / south trending Jurassic sandstone reservoir. M
The Shah Deniz oilfield lies between Mobil's Oquz, Chevron's Asheron and Exxon's Nakhchiuan fields. Its name is transla
Air valves are often overlooked with little thought going into them; however they play an important part within offshore systems. They are normally required on piping systems to either vent air from a pipeline or admit air back into the system under vacuum conditions. For the water indus
5 October 2010GA Valves have successfully completed the delivery of 40-no, 6in aluminium bronze air valves to the Yemen LNG project. GA Valves worked inconjunction with Technip and Yemgas to ensure the air valves were to the correct specification, and that the in-depth documentation was completed at the releva
12 October 2008GA Valves can now offer a full range of fire protection control valves for use on any water supply application, including water flow for deluge, pre-action or foam-water type fire protection sprinkler systems. Valves to customer specification and special UV protected coatings can also be offered.
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