TPI January 2009

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January 2009 Tube Products International 9
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Interpipe to supply steel pipes for
construction of new cruise ship
Steel pipe and railway wheels producer Interpipe has signed a contract with
Finnish Steel service centre Finnish Ore Oy. Interpipe will supply steel pipes
via Finnish Ore Oy for the building of the giant cruise ship Allure of the Seas, to
be constructed in the Turku yard in Finland by international shipbuilding group
STX Europe. Interpipe will supply seamless hot-formed construction pipes to be
used in building the deck along the perimeter of the vessel.
The Oasis-class cruise
ship will be a sister
ship of the largest
cruise ship in the world,
Oasis of the Seas, of
cruise company Royal
Caribbean International.
The new ship will have a
length of 360m, a width
of almost 50m and a
height of 73m.
Representatives of Finnish Ore Oy and STX Europe visited Interpipe’s mills and
conducted an internal audit of the manufacturing technologies employed, to
ensure the pipes are produced in accordance with the two companies’ high
quality standards.
Oleg Kuzmin, director for corporate affairs at Interpipe, commented, “Interpipe
highly values the opportunity to assist with the building of giant cruise ship
Allure of the Seas, and we look forward to working closely with Finnish Ore Oy
during this project. The realisation of the project will enable Interpipe to expand
its sales within the Northern European market and improve its presence in the
shipbuilding industry.”
Interpipe – Ukraine
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Cruise liner ▲ ▲ Allure of the Seas
country tubular goods) technology will
be showcased.
For the first time, there will be a
special show about profiles and profile
technology, featuring machines and
systems for the production of profiles
and presenting the final products.
After the success of the two events
in 2008, the organisers estimate that
35,000 visitors and 1,000 exhibiting
companies will attend Tube 2010, in a
display area of 40,000m2.
wire 2010 is expected to welcome
more than 41,000 visitors and host
around 1,100 exhibitors in 51,500m2 of
exhibition space.
Messe Düsseldorf GmbH – Germany
Sitindustrie supplied stainless steel pipes for two ▼ ▼
major projects
dry land. Discovered in Egypt in recent
years, it has a capability of 1.5 million
cubic metres of gas and 1,739 barrels
of oil per day.
The company also produced 1,100
tons for the Saih Rawl and
Mabrouk projects in Oman,
managed directly by Petroleum
Development of Oman.
This order strengthens the
company’s close relationships
with the Sultanate and follows
previous orders in 2005 (US$12.5
million) and 2006 (US$25 million),
for the management and the
export of natural gas present in
the vast fields of Oman.
The values of the two orders
were €12.6 million and €9.6 million
respectively. Both orders were
Stainless steel
pipes for projects
in Egypt and Oman
Sitindustrie, Italy, has supplied more
than 3,000 tons of stainless steel pipes
for projects in Egypt and Oman.
Sitindustrie Tubes & Pipes produced
1,900 tons of stainless steel pipes for
Khalda Petroleum for the Qasr project
in Egypt, a joint venture between the
American company Apache Energy and
the Egyptian General Petroleum and
others.
The field of Qasr is one of the most
important for the extraction of gas on
produced in ferritic/austenitic stain-
less steel (Duplex, UNS S31803),
requiring a difficult manufacturing
process.
Fausto Bocciolone, president and
managing director of the Sitindustrie
Group, stated that “these important
orders allow us to confirm the positive
growth in market of stainless steel
pipes. The successful trend in the
field of stainless steel tubes and pipes
intended to the oil and gas extraction
and refinery, shows that Sitindustrie
is able to support the most important
worldwide engineering companies in
the achievement of projects that are
becoming larger and more complex, due
to the high price of oil.”
Sitindustrie Tubes & Pipes – Italy