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48 Tube Products International January 2016
Steel tubes and pipe
Multi-million pound contract
on Maersk Culzean project
Tata Steel has been awarded a multi-
million pound contract for the Maersk
Culzean project, located in the UK
central North Sea – one of the largest
discoveries in the region in the last ten
years.
The company will be responsible for
providing more than 18,000 tonnes of
carbon steel welded line pipe, with the
core element of the scope of supply
encompassing a 53km 22" gas export
pipeline that will tie into the existing
central area transmission system (CATS).
The gas export line will be manufactured
at Tata Steel’s UOE LSAW pipe mill
in Hartlepool, UK, with BSR Pipeline
Services, a joint venture with Tata Steel,
providing the coating services.
Richard Broughton, commercial
manager, exploration and production,
Tata Steel, commented, “We worked very
closely with Maersk to ensure that the
stringent technical requirements were
understood. Our technical capability to
manufacture low temperature pipelines
with tight dimensional control is well
proven, and I am confident that this
was a key consideration in the tender
evaluation.
“Tata Steel has executed projects of this
nature in the past with extreme precision
and accuracy, ensuring achievement
of project objectives and client goals.
We are excited to be working with
Maersk and Subsea7 to ensure the
same outcome on this project.”
Work was scheduled to start in
September 2015, with an overall project
duration for Tata Steel of 18 months.
Tata Steel Europe Ltd – UK
Pair of approvals for Centravis
Centravis, a supplier of seamless
stainless tubes and pipes, has
been included on the approved
manufacturers list of engineering,
procurement and construction (EPC)
company KBR.
“KBR is one of the world’s top
EPC companies, involved in a big
part of the energy, petrochemicals,
government services and civil
infrastructure projects,” said Waldemar
Scheiermann, head of Centravis sales,
America.
“Approval by KBR is an important
achievement with regards to increasing
our share in the US market, and yet
another evidence of how Centravis
meets the highest international
standards.”
KBR delivers projects in more than
70 countries, in the areas of design
and construction of civil infrastructure
(airports, railways, highways, water
supply systems, and sanitation facilities
for the mining industry), construction
of oil and gas refineries, chemical
and petrochemical industries, state
institutions’ service, and business
ventures.
Centravis has also been certified and
included on the approved manufactur-
ers list of Alstom – a producer of rail-
way transport and power equipment.
The French engineering company
manufactures railway locomotives,
various trains, trams, power equipment,
and electrostatic precipitators for
industrial production, and is probably
best known for its TGV and AGV series
of high-speed trains.
“While Centravis is already working
with a number of companies in the
energy, construction, and oil and gas
spheres, our inclusion into Alstom’s
purchase system is a very important
step for the company’s promotion
in the European market,” said Peter
Gorban, head of Centravis’s strategic
marketing unit.
“Cooperation with Alstom not only
helps strengthen our position in
machine building, it will also raise
the prospect of attracting additional
project orders.”
Centravis – Ukraine