The Russian steel and pipe producer United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has announced that in August 2009 its Novgorod-based pipe producer Vyksa Steel Works (Vyksa) delivered an all-time record monthly volume of 92,000 mt of large diameter (LD) pipes. Vyksa's previous record delivery volume for LD pipes was in March 2007 when, with an output of 90,700 mt, the company's deliveries amounted to 87,800 mt.
Accordingly, during the first eight months of 2009, Vyksa produced 630,435 mt of LD pipes - up 30.8 percent year on year. Currently, Vyksa holds almost a 60 percent share of the domestic LD pipe market.
Vyksa produces and supplies LD pipes for Russia's major natural gas projects, including the North-European gas pipeline (land-based part), the Nord Stream pipeline (underwater part), the Baltic Pipeline System-2 pipeline, and the Vankor oil and gas field. In August, Vyksa completed the deliveries of LD pipes for the transnational Central Asia-China gas pipeline project, and currently is continuing pipe deliveries for the Bovanenkovo-Ukhta gas pipeline project. The company has also begun the production of pipes for the construction of the OML 58 Obite-Ubeta-Rumuji gas pipeline project in Nigeria and for the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok pipeline project. In September, Vyksa is to start the production of LD pipes for Uzbekistan's Chigil-Nishan project.
Currently, OMK is participating in the tenders for the delivery of pipes for the construction of the second line of the Nord Stream gas pipeline and also for the construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean oil pipeline.