Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced that it has begun shipments of 813 mm diameter pipes for the South Stream Offshore Pipeline. The pipes are manufactured at the Izhora Pipe Mill, part of Severstal's Russian Steel division.
The mill's first batch of 12 meter-long pipes of 39 mm wall thickness has been shipped to Severstal's stevedoring company Neva-Metal (also part of the Russian Steel division), which has further transported the product to the project. Severstal plans to supply more than 40,000 mt of pipes by the end of the second quarter.
Severstal has won two tenders and will supply around 260,000 mt of 813 mm diameter pipes manufactured at the Izhora Pipe Mill for the first and the second strings of the South Stream pipeline system's offshore section.