Russia's largest oil and gas pipe producer TMK has announced that it has started shipments of longitudinal welded large diameter (LD) pipes to Russian state-owned oil transportation company Transneft for the construction of the second phase of the Baltic Pipeline System (BPS-2), and will also supply the same products for the first stage of Transneft's Eastern Siberia Pacific Ocean phase-2 (ESPO-2) oil pipeline.
Accordingly, between November 2009 and October 2010, TMK is to supply for Transneft's BPS-2 more than 52,000 mt of longitudinal welded pipes of 1,020 mm and 1,067 mm diameter and of 11 mm, 12 mm and 13 mm wall thickness. The pipes, produced at TMK subsidiary Volzhsky Pipe Plant, will be supplied in K52, K56 and K60 grades.
In addition, from January to October 2010, TMK will deliver for the first stage of the ESPO-2 oil pipeline 107,000 mt of 1,020 mm and 1,067 mm longitudinal welded LD pipes with wall thickness of 12 mm and 14 mm. The pipes, to be produced in K56 and K60 grades at Volzhsky Pipe Plant, will be supplied with anticorrosion coating.