TPi January 2012

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Logstor Group takes on chief operating officer

From his position during the past nine years as managing director of Nordisk Wavin A/S, a manufacturer of plastic pipes, Mr Jensen brings extensive experience as a supplier of

As of 1 December 2011, Ole Arenfeldt Jensen joined Logstor as the group’s chief operating officer. He was also appointed head of Logstor’s European district energy division. In addition, Mr Jensen takes over responsibility as managing director of Logstor A/S in Denmark from Preben Tolstrup, who will continue as chairman of the Danish company.

Logstor’s headquarters in Løgstør, Denmark

cover Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, as well as the rest of the world, with particular focus on growth markets. Logstor’s global oil & gas activities are managed in a single independent business division operating worldwide. More than 50 years ago Logstor invented the pre-insulated pipe system technology and is now a leader when it comes to these pipe systems for energy- efficient transportation of liquids and gases for district heating and cooling, marine and industrial purposes as well as oil and gas. To date, the company has delivered more than 170,000km of pre-insulated pipes. Headquartered in Løgstør, Denmark, the company has subsidiaries in Austria, China, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland. A network of 30 agents and Logstor’s 14 sales offices support the group’s sales activities.

infrastructure products to the European market. “Given the many common features between Logstor and Wavin I will have a unique opportunity to put my experience to immediate use and in close cooperation with Logstor’s organisation continue the efforts to further strengthen Logstor’s position on the important European market,” he commented. “I am very pleased to welcome Ole Arenfeldt and look forward to thisaddition of competences to Logstor,” said Preben Tolstrup, CEO of the Logstor Group. “It will mean a valuable strengthening of our European organisation and at the same time provide an injection of new resources permitting us to further boost our global expansion which is right now progressing at a high pace.” Early in 2011, comprehensive organisational changes were carried through with the aim of simplifying the structure of Logstor’s business areas for district heating, district cooling, industry, marine and oil & gas, to better match global demands and development. Four independent regional district energy divisions have been established to

Ole Arenfeldt Jensen

Preben Tolstrup, president and CEO of Logstor

logstor a/s – Denmark logstor@logstor.com www.logstor.com

Pipe for offshore pipeline TMK, amanufacturer andsupplier of steel pipes for the oil and gas industry, has shipped seamless line pipe to Gazprom to develop the offshore pipeline at the Kirinskoye gas condensate field on the Sakhalin Island shelf.

stricter than international standards for offshore pipelines, including the DNV- OS-F101 standard. Beginning in 2014, the Kirinskoye field will become a source of gas for the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok gas transmission system. The field’s natural gas reserves are 75.4bn m 3 , and its gas condensate reserves are 8.6mn tonnes. “TMK made this delivery as part of its offshore programme, which

we are actively developing as a strategy to expand TMK’s premium business segment,” said Alexander Shiryaev, TMK CEO. “The technical specifications for this pipe, agreed with Gazprom, significantly exceed the requirements specified by international standards for offshore pipelines.”

The technical specifications of seamless line pipe for the Kirinskoye field were developed jointly with Gazprom’s R&D division in accordance with the Russian gas monopoly requirements, which are

TMK – Russia tmk@tmk-group.com www.tmk-group.com

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