Russian steel producer Severstal has announced that its Izhora Pipe Mill and the Mill 5000 at its Cherepovets Steel Mill's third sheet-rolling shop, is ready to supply pipes for Russian gas monopoly Gazprom's major new gas transmission project called Power of Siberia.
The Yakutia-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok pipeline, recently renamed the Power of Siberia project, runs from the Chayandinsky oil and gas condensate field to Vladivostok and will be completed by 2017. The land though which the pipeline system passes is highly seismic, and therefore requires specialty pipes that will ensure safe and reliable gas transmission.
The pipes for the project have been developed by Severstal as part of a long-term development program running from 2012 to 2016. The program is focused on the manufacturing of pipe products for deep sea pipelines as well as the establishment of production facilities for rolled metal products and sulfurous gas pipes, as well as for pipes spanning active tectonic faults.