Borusan Mannesmann Boru to supply pipes to US

Thursday, 01 November 2007 16:00:30 (GMT+3)   |  
       

Borusan Mannesmann Boru (BMB), Borusan Group's leading company in the Turkish and European steel pipe markets, has announced that it has won a significant natural gas pipeline tender. According to the contract details, BMB will supply all the spiral welded steel pipes to be used in the pipeline to be constructed by Elba Express in the US. This contract, which is worth $170 million, will be the largest project undertaken by BMB so far.

The Elba Express Project aims to increase the amount of natural gas supplied to the eastern and southeastern areas of the US, in particular to Georgia. The annual capacity of the pipeline, foreseen to be completed in mid-2010 and to reach 312 km in length, will be 34 million cubic meters.

For the project in question, BMB will produce 36"and 42" API grade epoxy coated spiral pipes at its Izmit mill, which has an annual production capacity of about 200,000 tons of large diamater spiral pipes.

Commenting on the tender, BMB General Manager Tayfun İşeri said, "At Borusan Mannesmann Boru, we have been gaining a great advantage on our competitors with the quality of the products we supply and our high compatibility to on-time delivery conditions in big international pipeline projects in recent years. The US tender in question, proves the strength of our global competition power".

Having successfully undertaken many important projects so far such as the Turkey stage of the Baku-Tiflis-Ceyhan Pipeline, the Turkey-Greece Natural Gas Pipeline, Sahdeniz Pipeline, and NK-1 and GZ-1 in Algeria, BMB has also supplied pipes to important natural gas projects in Iran and Israel.

As previously reported by SteelOrbis, BMB is currently constructing a new mill in Spain, which will have an annual production capacity of 50,000 tons of spiral pipes.


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