The Russian steel and
pipe producer United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has announced that, since the beginning of the current year up to July 6, its Novgorod-based
pipe producer Vyksa Steel Works (Vyksa) has produced one million mt of steel pipes, thus repeating the absolute record of 2007, when one million mt of pipes were produced in a period of six months.
Accordingly, about 60 percent of the total steel
pipe output, i.e., 600,000 mt, consisted of large diameter
pipe production.
According to Vyksa executive director Vladimir Kochetkov, such high results were achieved due to the orders received for the construction of the second line of the Nord Stream international gas pipeline, Bovanenkovo-Ukhta, Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok, Baydaratskaya Bay gas pipelines, and Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean-2, Baltic Pipeline System-2 oil pipelines.
With an annual capacity of two million mt of large diameter steel pipes, Vyksa maintains its number one position among European large diameter
pipe producers. In 2009, Vyksa's market share among Russian large diameter
pipe producers amounted to over 50 percent.