Metinvest, Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group, has won a tender held by Turkmengaz, the national gas company of Turkmenistan, for the supply of pipes for the implementation of the East-West project.
In August this year, Metinvest signed a contract for the supply of 150,000 mt of pipes to be produced at its Khartsyzsk Tube Works with a diameter of 1,420 mm and of K60 strength class. Azovstal strips will be used for the pipe production.
Under the contract, Metinvest shall supply the above volume by mid-2012.
The East-West gas pipeline project plays a strategic role as it may be linked with the Nabucco gas pipeline, which would create a transportation route supplying natural gas from Central Asia to European countries