TMK, one of the world's leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has shipped seamless line pipe to Russian gas monopoly Gazprom to develop the offshore pipeline at the Kirinskoye gas condensate field on the Sakhalin Island shelf.
The technical specifications of seamless line pipe for the Kirinskoye field were developed jointly with Gazprom's R&D division in accordance with Gazprom's requirements, which are much stricter than international standards for offshore pipelines, including DNV-OS-F101 standard.
Beginning in 2014, the Kirinskoye field will become a source of gas for the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok gas transmission system. The field's natural gas reserves are 75.4 billion cubic meters, while its gas condensate reserves are 8.6 million metric tons.