Reducing turbulence and shear forces in valves results in increased efficiency of downstream separation equipment. The Typhoon^® Valve System is a low shear valve technology developed by Typhonix through a 12-million-dollar development program in close cooperation with Mokveld Valves. The development was sponsored by Shell, Equinor, Vår Energi, Total, ConocoPhillips, Neptune Energy, and the Research Council of Norway. The Typhoon^® Valve System is a cost-efficient way to debottleneck separation and produced water treatment systems, greatly improving separation efficiency without adding additional equipment or expensive separator modifications.

Typhoon^® Valve System is developed to reduce shear forces and thereby droplet break-up and emulsification of oil and water. Typhoon^® Valve System has, through several years of field installations and experimental investigations, demonstrated a significant positive effect on downstream separation, improving oil and water quality. Typhoon^® Valve System can replace both a conventional choke and control valves.

Benefits of using Typhoon^® Valve System are:

• Improved oil and water quality
• Cost-efficient separation system debottlenecking
• More compact separation systems
• Increase separator capacity
• Longer production of high WC wells
• Reduced need for heating and separation enhancing production chemicals

Typhoon^® Valve System is designed and manufactured by the leading international supplier, Mokveld Valves BV. Typhoon^® Valve System is designed to easily replace conventional chokes or control valves, both axial and angled valves.

Replacing today’s conventional valves with the new Typhoon^® Valve System offers a cost-efficient solution to enhance separation efficiency and reduce environmental impact with regards to produced water discharge.

Typhoon^® Valve System is a flow control system like any conventional choke or control valve. Typhoon^® Valve System is therefore considered for use in all applications where standard valves are used today. In optimizing oil-water separation, Typhoon^® System can advantageously replace conventional choke or control valves located upstream main separation equipment or produced water treatment equipment, i.e., upstream large three-phase separators, hydrocyclones, degassers, flotation units, etc.

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By decreasing pressure more gently, Typhoon^® Valve System improves oil-water separation. Results from a wide variation of field installations and tests show that performance improvement is achieved across a wide range of process conditions and fluid compositions.