The Valve Performance Clearinghouse

The Valve Performance Clearinghouse (VPC) is a not-for-profit consortium of major oil companies sharing expenses to establish gas lift valve performance data and correlations.

Test data and correlations are proprietary to member companies, and will be licensed to non-members for a fee. License fees will go into the General Budget to support additional valve testing.

The objective is to establish the VPC as a source for the collection, analysis, and distribution of high quality valve performance data and correlations to member companies and licensees.

The VPC membership selects valves for testing and the VPC administrator performs tests per the API 11V2 RP. Tests are conducted at the Southwest Research Institute, and the facility is API 11V2 RP compliant. The VPC administrator develops correlations to predict performance under any temperature and pressure conditions. These are supplied to members, and are available under license to users of WellFlo^® and DynaLift™ Software.

It is a condition of the license that data will not be distributed or shared with any other company.