Russia-based TMK, one of the world's leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has announced that it has supplied large diameter pipes (LD pipes) for the compressor station at the Yurkharovskoye gas field. The deposit is located beyond the Arctic Circle at the southeast part of the Tazovskoye peninsula and it is the main extraction asset of Novatek, Russia's largest independent gas producer.
The supply included 1,800 mt of 1,020 mm and 1,220 mm K60-grade longitudinal welded LD pipes manufactured at Volzhsky Pipe Plant, a TMK subsidiary. These LD pipes are used for gas pipelines operating at 11.8 MPa.
TMK has already made several shipments of premium tubing and casing pipe for Novatek's Yurkharovskoye field, with TMK's engineers supervising the running of these pipes into the wells. In particular, TMK's pipe was used in vertical and horizontal drilling (starting onshore and going under the bed of the Kara Sea). The latest shipment was the first-ever LD pipe batch shipped to Novatek.