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Aker Solutions Rate Hobbs Valve "Perfect"

Hobbs Valve provided triple offset butterfly valves for a project by Aker Solutions and BP. Aker Solutions inspected the valves and found them to be "perfect". A representative from Aker Solutions praised Hobbs Valve's quality, service level, clean facilities, material traceability, and health and safety awareness. Hobbs Valve can now offer fire safe certified triple offset butterfly valves that are graphite-free, eliminating potential galvanic corrosion issues in duplex valves for offshore applications. This innovative solution allows the use of non-graphite materials while maintaining fire safe certification, making Hobbs Valve the only manufacturer globally that can provide such a valve.

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Aker Solutions Rate Hobbs Valve "Perfect"

Hobbs Valve provided triple offset butterfly valves for a project by Aker Solutions and BP. Aker Solutions inspected the valves and found them to be "perfect". A representative from Aker Solutions praised Hobbs Valve's quality, service level, clean facilities, material traceability, and health and safety awareness. Hobbs Valve can now offer fire safe certified triple offset butterfly valves that are graphite-free, eliminating potential galvanic corrosion issues in duplex valves for offshore applications. This innovative solution allows the use of non-graphite materials while maintaining fire safe certification, making Hobbs Valve the only manufacturer globally that can provide such a valve.

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Aker Solutions rate Hobbs Valve Perfect

The Hobbs Double Block & Bleed Valve was chosen by Aker Solutions and BP as the product to provide the
solution; it is with this contract Hobbs Valve was able to illustrate once again the success of our TVT range
along with the impeccable Hobbs customer service.
Not ever using this form of Triple Offset before for high pressure gas, Aker Solutions and BP quite rightly
requested 100% Visual and Witness Inspection to which Aker Solutions Niels Voien Senior Valve and Piping
Engineer responded; All Perfect!
Niels also commented in an official email;
We would like to express our satisfaction with the quality of the product, and the service level provided by
Hobbs Valve throughout the process, for our order of dual flanged double isolation and bleed valves for the BP
Skarv Project. We visited Hobbs Valves premises for our final inspection and we noticed the works were very
clean and well organised. Of particular interest was the strict material type segregation, and accurate material
traceability. The level of HSE awareness is also very high, and the HP gas test facilities were well organised and
safe against possible accidents.

Hobbs Valve provide the solution yet again

Hobbs Valve can now offer our TVT range of Triple Offset Butterfly Valves suitable for Fire Safe Certified
Applications free of graphite, eliminating the potential for Galvanic Corrosion in Duplex Valves.
Offshore applications have an inherent safety need to be Fire Safe Certified ensuring critical valves are
operable during and or after a fire event. This critical need offers an obstacle in choices of material whilst
attempting to minimise or remove corrosive opportunities. Galvanic Corrosion has proven to be a Global
Problem in Sea Water applications when combined with Duplex Stainless Steel and Graphite.
Hobbs once again has stepped ahead of the class and approved a new innovative material selection that allows
the use of non-graphite material but maintaining fire safe certification. Currently Hobbs is the only Triple Offset
Butterfly Valve Manufacturer Globally capable of delivering such a result. Ashley Ford Product Engineering
Manager states "It is imperative in todays markets that End Users can rely on Manufacturers to deliver
innovative results to solve long standing problems and make all attempts to reduce the cost of exploration in
the offshore industry, it is because of this that Hobbs continually attempt to solve the customers need prior to
being requested"
Historically Graphite in certain service conditions would normally have been replaced with PTFE or RPTFE which
only has a maximum operating temperature of around 260 deg C.
Hobbs Valve can now offer a range of Duplex and Super Duplex Valves that are graphite free and fire safe. The
fire safe capabilities of these valves were confirmed by successfully passing the test requirements for
confirming the pressure-containing capability of a valve during and after a fire in line with the international
standard ISO 10497:2010 as witnessed by Lloyds register.

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