Russian steel and pipe producer United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has announced its Novgorod-based pipe producer Vyksa Steel Works (Vyksa) has started the production of large diameter (LD) pipes for the construction of the second line of the international gas pipeline Nord Stream. In May this year, OMK will deliver the first 10,000 mt of LD pipes.
As SteelOrbis previously reported, OMK was awarded 25 percent of the tender for pipe deliveries, while the rest of the pipes will be supplied by German-based Europipe (65 percent) and Japan-based Sumitomo (10 percent). A total of one million mt of high-pressure-proof steel pipes will be delivered for the construction of the second pipeline of the Nord Stream Project.
Up to April 2011, OMK's Vyksa will produce and deliver for this project more than 200 km of X70 strength class steel pipes (more than 200,000 mt) of 1,220 mm diameter and of 34.6 mm wall thickness with a three-layered corrosion-resistant external and internal coating.
As SteelOrbis previously reported, OMK also delivered pipes for the construction of the first pipeline of the Nord Stream Project. Accordingly, between May 2008 and November 2009, Vyksa supplied more than 260,000 mt of large diameter pipes for the first pipeline.
Following the commissioning of the second line, Nord Stream gas pipeline's transmission capacity will increase from 27.5 to 55 billion cubic meters per year.