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[_1angelia23]

Dear engineers,

We are in the FEED stage of designing a facility to produce 50 KBOPD. We have 6 well pads to achieve this production. Each well pad is with an oil gathering manifold. The consultant recommends the manifolds be provided with a multiport selector valves, comprising a housing with many production inlets, allowing for the diversion and testing of fluid from any individual line through a rotating plug, while the remaining lines continue to flow to a common group outlet instead using a conventional manifolds, which includes separate production and test headers. The justification of Consultant for using multiport selector valves is that they require less space, reduce manual operation and human error

In all our facilities, we use a conventional manifold instead of a multiselector manifold since our current and future facilities are onshore ones and we have space so there is no issue with it

Is there anyone here with experience in multiport selector valves? and Which manifold is preferred and has better availability? is it coventional or multiselector one If you could provide me with documents explaining these valves, because I have been looking for documents about them and I have not been finding any information, only simple product bulletins.


Thank you in advance.

Edited by _1angelia23, 12 March 2025 - 05:58 AM.

[breizh]

Hi,

Be cautious, I'm worried about material which can damage the seal and can ruin the whole system. It should work for clean fluid, not for your application.

On operation point of view, I will never accept this technology, too risky.

Breizh 

[_1angelia23]

Hi,

Be cautious, I'm worried about material which can damage the seal and can ruin the whole system. It should work for clean fluid, not for your application.

On operation point of view, I will never accept this technology, too risky.

Breizh 

Thank you so much, breizh. I agree with you about the required clean enviroment and the risk from operational point of view.  Have you supervised on project with these MSVs before. I am seeking to find engineers that worked on them. All manifolds in our field are conventional so we are worried about using MSVs in future. I hope other members involve in this thread 

[breizh]

Hi,

Let see what others have to say. Outside my area of competency.

https://oilstates.co...ctor-valve-msv/

https://oilstates.co...lveBrochure.pdf

https://www.hcpetrol...-Selector-Valve

Note: The last one has a chat line available.

Breizh