One of Turkey-based Tosyal Holding's important enterprises, Tosçelik Spiral Pipe, has been selected to supply the steel pipes for the Black Sea Coast-Podişor Natural Gas Pipeline Project, which is owned by Romania’s Transgaz. The project will be located in Romania's southeast, and the route will go from southeast to west, passing through the Romanian counties of Constanta, Călăraşi, and Giurgiu.
According to the specifics of the contract, Tosçelik Spiral Pipe will provide 102,000 mt of steel pipes within one year, with a diameter range of 813-1,219 mm, with ISO 3183 PSL2 manufacturing standard, and L415NE PSL2 steel grade.
Moreover, the spiral pipeline will be 306.5 kilometers long, and it is anticipated that the gas transported by the line, which will have an annual capacity of more than 12 billion cubic meters, will be sufficient to meet about 45 percent of Romania's gas consumption.
In addition, the project's secondary goal, which is crucial for Europe's energy security, is to link up with the Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Austria (BRUA) Gas Pipeline at Podişor.
The agreement to supply a sizeable amount of pipes for export is expected to ease some pressure on Toscelik in terms of imports of feedstock, namely, hot rolled coil (HRC), since, according to Turkey’s inward processing regime, such import purchases would be subject to zero percent import tax instead of 13-15 percent depending on the origin.