Russia's United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has mastered the
production of new class of pipes, which are in line with standard API 5L. The new technology in the
pipe production was installed at Vyksa Steel Works, a member of OMK.
Previously, the pipes with diameter of 762 mm and thickness of wall of 38.1 mm were produced only by four companies worldwide: Nippon Steel and Sumitomo (
Japan), Europipe (
Germany) and Corus (England).
OMK shipped the first order of the pipes to
construction of sea-based platforms for Lunskiy and Pilsnunsk oil deposits in the framework of Sahalin-2 project.