Oxford Flow ES axial flow valve achieves oil and gas fugitive emissions breakthrough

Oxford Flow, the flow control equipment specialist for oil, gas, water and industrial process industries, announced that its pioneering ES axial flow isolation valve for the oil, gas and petrochemical sectors has excelled in fugitive emissions testing, offering a viable option to eliminate fugitive emissions from valves in critical processes.

ISO 15848-1 testing, performed at the Score Cowdenbeath laboratory in Scotland, demonstrated the ES valve had a leakage rate of 100x less than allowed by level AH C03, which is currently the highest ISO performance level for isolation valves. Using helium as a test medium, the results indicated that helium levels around the valve and hydraulics were not exceeding those normally found in the atmosphere. Thus, the ES provides dramatically better fugitive emission performance than the industry-standard for isolation valves.