Russia's largest oil and gas pipe producer TMK has announced that it has begun shipments of large diameter (LD) pipes to Russia's biggest gas company Gazprom for the construction of its Pochinki-Gryazovets gas pipeline.
Accordingly, from December 2009 to January 2010, TMK is to deliver for Gazprom's Pochinki-Gryazovets pipeline project a total of 40,000 mt of 1,420 mm Volzhsky spiral welded pipes of 15.7 mm and 18.7 mm wall thickness, with anticorrosion coating.
In addition, TMK is also to supply to Gazprom 20,000 mt of 1,420 mm longitudinal welded pipes of 25.8 mm wall thickness, and 1,420 mm spiral welded pipes of 21.6 mm wall thickness, to be used for the construction of its Gryazovets-Vyborg pipeline, i.e., the Russian onshore section of the Nord Stream pipeline. The pipes will be produced at TMK's subsidiary, Volzhsky Pipe Plant, and will be supplied with inner smooth coating and external anticorrosion coating.
As SteelOrbis previously reported, TMK is also supplying Gazprom with Volzhsky longitudinal LD pipes for the construction of the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok gas pipeline. Up to the end of 2009, TMK expects to supply more than 70,000 mt of longitudinal welded LD pipes for the project in question.