The Russian pipemaker TMK has announced that its Kazakhstan-based subsidiary TMK-Kaztrubprom has commenced shipments of oil country tubular goods (OCTG). The first shipment amounted to 240 mt of tubing with couplings.
TMK-Kaztrubprom, with an annual production capacity of 60,000 mt, joined TMK in June 2008 and is specialized in the threading and finishing of tubing and casing pipes used in the oil and gas industry.
As TMK's CEO Konstantin Semerikov stated, the production capacity in Kazakhstan allows TMK to increase its output of high-technology tubular goods and to strengthen its position in the promising Central Asian energy markets, where the oil and gas sector is actively being developed.