TPi May 2014

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Premium connections to be united under a single brand called TMK Ultra Premium

13679 CAL IV at Oil States Industries (Aberdeen, UK) and Stress Engineering Services (Houston, USA) independent testing centres. The new TMK UP brand will unite the two product lines, with previously patented products retaining their names. “Bringing the two premium connections lines under the single brand will help expand bidding opportunities for the company’s premium tubular products worldwide, unify its portfolio of global packaged product offering, and raise global awareness of TMK’s premium solutions,” commented TMK’s CEO, Alexander Shiryaev.

tubing and casing pipe connections, since 2004 and said it is now ready to offer it to customers. Following the integration of TMK IPSCO, the company’s American division, in 2008, TMK’s premium connections product mix was expanded with Ultra threads designed by American engineers and used for developing unconventional hydrocarbon (shale gas and oil sand) fields in North America. Over the last few years, TMK’s engineers on both sides of the Atlantic have been cooperating closely to develop new types of connections. In 2011, TMK’s Orsky machine building plant started producing pipes with Ultra premium connections. TMK’s premium connections were also successfully certified for compliance with ISO

TMK, a manufacturer and supplier of steel pipes for the oil and gas industry, has united its two premium connections families, TMK Premium and Ultra, under a single brand: TMK Ultra Premium (TMK UP). Pipes with premium connections are designed for oil and gas wells developed in challenging exploration and production conditions, including offshore, deep-sea and the Far North locations, as well as for horizontal and directional wells. The products offer high strength, tightness, excellent bending capacity, and good resistance to other negative external factors.

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TMK has been developing TMK Premium, a proprietary line of premium

Offshore solutions off the Angolan coast Vallourec has announced the provision of an extensive range of premium offshore solutions to the CLOV deepwater oil and gas project operated by Total E&P in Angola. CLOV is a cluster of four oil and gas fields located in the northwest sector of Angola’s offshore Block 17, with water depths ranging from 1,100 to 1,400m.

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unit (FPSO), Vallourec has delivered a total of 28,500 tons – or 200km – of coated seamless line pipes and bends to Subsea 7. An additional 2,400 tons of seamless pipes were delivered by Vallourec for the construction of the riser towers. The production unit will have a processing capacity of 160,000 barrels of oil per day and a storage capacity of approximately 1.8mn barrels. The solution package provided by Vallourec includes a wide range of services, such as the application of around 150km of anti-corrosion coating on the pipes and the supply of approximately 700 hot induction bends. To ensure flow assurance requirements, production flow-lines include a pipe-in- pipe solution. They will be assembled directly in Angola.

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Vallourec will equip 34 subsea wells with approximately 15,000 tons of OCTG products featuring VAM ® premium connections. CLOV is the fourth development pole in Angola’s deep offshore Block 17 where Vallourec is involved, along with Girassol, Dalia and Pazflor. Two of CLOV’s drilling rigs also use Vallourec drill strings and connections, which are dedicated to the most difficult drilling conditions, such as highly deviated or extended reach wells. To secure the transportation of hydrocarbons to the floating production, storage and offloading

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