Russia's largest oil and gas pipe producer TMK has announced that it has begun shipments of longitudinal welded large diameter (LD) pipes to Russia's biggest gas company Gazprom for the construction of its Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok gas pipeline.
In September this year, TMK shipped a total of 8,000 mt of 1,220 mm K60 grade longitudinal welded pipe with wall thickness between 17.8 mm and 21.2 mm, and with internal protective coating. This pipe range is manufactured at Volzhsky's longitudinal welded LD pipe mill, which was commissioned in late 2008 as part of TMK's strategic investment program.
Up to the end of 2009, TMK expects to supply more than 70,000 mt of longitudinal welded LD pipes to Gazprom for the construction of the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok gas pipeline.