One of the largest Russian pipe producers, ChTPZ Group, has announced that in February-March 2009 its subsidiary Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) will complete the order of Russia's biggest gas company Gazprom for the supply of large diameter pipes for operational-maintenance needs of the following gas pipelines; Valday-Pskov-Riga, Kipen-Gatchina, Gryazovets- Leningrad I and Torzhok- Minsk -Ivatsevichi-2.
Under the scope of the agreement, ChTPZ is to supply large diameter electric-welded steel pipes with 530, 720, 1,020, and 1,220 mm outside diameter, 7.0-16.7 mm wall thickness, and with three-layered external anticorrosive polyethylene coating, made of 17G1S-U, 13G1S-U steel grades of TU 14-3-1270-2001 and TU 14-158-153-2005 standards.
Furthermore, ChTPZ is currently preparing to take part in Gazprom's new big gas pipeline project Sakhalin-Habarovsk-Vadivostok, which will be part of a united gas transportation system for Russia's Far East region.