Japanese steelmaker JFE Steel Corporation has announced that, together with Japanese steelmaker Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc. it has received an order for 230,000 mt of API 5L X65-grade UOE line pipes from Thailand’s largest oil and gas supplier PTT Public Company Limited, JFE Steel’s largest-ever order for heavy sour-service line pipes. The pipes will be used for Thailand’s 5th Transmission Pipeline Project, which is part of PTT’s five-year plan to invest THB 110.1 billion ($3.1 billion) in natural gas pipelines and related facilities.
The 5th Transmission Pipeline will be a 426-kilometer pipeline for transporting natural gas from the LNG terminal in the coastal province of Rayong to the inland province of Nonthaburi, just northwest of Bangkok. The pipeline requires high-grade UOE heavy sour-service pipes. JFE Steel will produce UOE pipes with outer diameters of 36 inches and 42 inches at its Fukuyama District facility, part of the company’s West Japan Works.