200 valve, actuator and control system packages to be supplied to Statoil
Paladon Americas is delighted to announce that they have recently been awarded an order for the supply of 200 complete valve automation systems for Statoil’s Bakken Shale Play. Each system will comprise of a 2 1/16” Class 5000 ball valve, a PNS-2-314-SRC6E pneumatic scotch yoke actuator and a local control system. To be installed on the well pad, the systems will provide ESD protection for the production oil lines.
Ranked as one of the largest US oil developments in the past 40 years, the Bakken Shale Play is located in Eastern Montana and Western North Dakota; as well as parts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba in the Williston Basin. Oil was initially discovered in the Bakken Play in 1951, but large scale commercial production only became economically viable in the last ten years following advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques and technologies. The US Geological Survey has estimated that the Bakken Shale Formation could yield 4.3 billion barrels of oil.
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