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Selection from Circor’s reference list
Projects where Hoke Gyrolok, Valves or Manifolds were specified:–

OFFSHORE
• Amerada Hess, 001, UK
• BP, Cleeton Field,UK
• Phillips, Hewett Field, UK
• Shell Leman Field, UK
• Shell Inde Field, UK
• Shell Sean Field, UK
• Shell Tern, UK
• Mobil Gallahad, UK
• Mobil Beryl A, UK
• Phillips RUBI, UK
• Mobil/Exxon Skene, UK
• Nam (Shell Exxon) –
20 platforms, Netherlands
• Occidental/QGPC, PS1
Complex, Qatar
• Aipem/AGIP, Mwafi & Foukanda
Platforms, Congo
• AGIP, Clara North & East
and Calpurnia Platforms, Italy
• ELF, Serepca Cameroon.

REFINERIES
• BP, Coryton, UK
• Shell, Stanlow, UK
• BP Grangemouth, UK
• Shell Research, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
• Shell Rotterdam, Netherlands
• DEA Mineralöl, Heide, Germany
• Bahrain Petroleum Co, Bahrain
• MPC, Lube Oil Blending Plant,
Alexandria, Egypt
• Reliance Petroleum,
Jamnagar, India
• Aramco, Uthmaniyah,
Saudi Arabia
• ADMA – OPCO, Das Island,
Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Technip Italy/ ISLA Refinery
Upgrade, Curacao
Netherlands Antilles

CHEMICAL
• Messer GmbH, Germany
• Dow Schkopau, Germany
• Dow BSL, Böhlen,
Leipzig, Germany
• Dow Buna,
Halle/Leipzig, Germany
• Degussa Marl, Germany
• Reliance Industries, Hazira Phase
II Complex, India
• SADAF, Styrene II Plant, Jubail,
Saudi Arabia
• Tongaat Huletts,
Facilities Relocation, Zimbabwe
• Tecnimont/PIC,
Urea Chemical Plant, Kuwait.

GAS PROCESSING
• GASUNIE, Netherlands
• Ruhrgas, Germany
• Nigeria LNG, Bonny Island
Nigeria
• Sui Southern Gas Co,
Karachi Pipeline, Pakistan
• GASCO, Ruwais,
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Hoke and DuPont extend long-term Alliance Agreement
Hoke and DuPont extend Alliance Agreement SAA # 0893 550L through to August 31, 2002 Starting in 1993.
   DuPont has enjoyed outstanding cost-savings and the relationship also benefits Hoke and its worldwide customer base in other ways.
   Co-operative efforts have led, for example, to the development of Hoke’s highly regarded Fitting Installation Workshop package, the Gyrogage Inspection Tool and product enhancements such as expanded temperature ratings recently announced for many
Hoke ball valves.
Gyrolok fittings meet the challenge at Nigeria’s Bonny Island LNG plant

Products that promote ease of use, safety and reliable performance combined with strong factory support and training, are a critical requirement when building major process plants in developing nations.
   That is why Hoke Gyrolok fittings were selected as the major supplier for the Nigeria LNG (NLNG) Bonny Island facility.

  The Bonny Island site is a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, targeted at bringing the country’s substantial gas reserves to market. The $2.5 billion plant includes the original LNG process train, which came into operation in September of 1999, and the second train handed over to NLNG in February of this year.

Bonny Island Plant

  Each train can produce 2.95 million tonnes of LNG a year, rating these the largest yet built anywhere in the world. Design and site preparation for the construction of a $1.3 billion third train is already under way, which will see Bonny’s LNG output rise to 8.6 million tonnes per year in 2002. And concepts for two further trains are currently being considered.
   NLNG is a joint venture between Nigeria’s state oil company NNPC (49%), Shell (25.6%), Elf (15%) and AGIP (10.4%). The turnkey contract for the first two trains was awarded in December 1995 to TSKJ, a consortium of four leading contractors – Technip, Snamprogetti, Kellogg (now Kellogg, Brown & Root, KBR) and JGC of Japan.
   The liquefaction process is a three-stage process of low and high pressure cycles which eventually cool the gas to -160°C – a tough application, but well within the parameters of Gyrolok tube fittings.
   An even tougher job was the logistics and training support. Wim Kemper of Shell, NLNG’s Construction Manager, was recently

quoted as saying: “At first we underestimated the organizational and logistical challenges of working on such a large grassroots project in the location and got off to a slow start. Some 85% of these (18,000 workers) were Nigerian but at one point we had 47 different nationalities working here.”
   The logistics problems were overcome by using the Hoke-Harrow service center combined with the local Hoke distributor in Nigeria, Triple Ace. The teamwork between Triple Ace and Hoke was essential in eliminating project delays due to the supply of tube fittings.
   This teamwork also extended to product training. Triple Ace was able to support the project locally, while Hoke certified an NLNG employee to be the tube fitting installation trainer on site.
   With the construction of the third train underway, Hoke will again be meeting the challenge of providing the superior service and support required to ensure a timely project completion.
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