Tube Products International March 2015

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18 Tube Products International March 2015
INDUTEC: A Springboard into Africa
With Africa’s attractiveness as a
business destination on the rise, the SA
Industry and Technology Fair (INDUTEC)
offers a cost-effective springboard into
the rest of Africa.
“Africa is now rated as the second
most attractive investment destination
in the world and businesses are actively
using INDUTEC to explore these
opportunities,” said John Thomson
from Exhibition Management Services,
organiser of the event. INDUTEC takes
place from 20 to 22 May 2015, at
Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa.
Instead of making many trips to different
African countries to find business
opportunities, one trip to INDUTEC will
provide exposure to companies from
all over Africa. The event targets the
manufacturing, engineering, water,
petrochemical, plastics and energy
sectors.
Thai-German Products Public
Company Ltd (TGPRO) will exhibit at
Pumps, Valves and Pipes Africa for
the first time in 2015. This will also be
the company’s first time exhibiting in
Africa.
“We decided to exhibit at PVP Africa
2015 because this event will help us
introduce our company and products
into the African market and will help us
expand our business into Africa,” says
Rinlada Panpoonsub, international sales
executive at TGPRO.
Franklin Fuelling Systems Ltd, another
first-time exhibitor at the event, is a
provider of complete fuelling systems.
Natasha Pratley, marketing executive at
the company, commented, “We decided
to exhibit at this event because it has
synergy with our allied industries.”
Third-time exhibitor Sera ProDos SA will
launch a new chemical dosing system,
and will showcase its compact dosing
system. Sera ProDos offers a wide range
of precision metering pumps as well as
complete dosing systems with a wide
variety of add-ons and accessories.
Exhibition Management Services –
South Africa
MRC Global awarded five-year
supplier agreement
MarkWest Energy Partners, LP has
awarded a pipe, valves and fittings (PVF)
supplier agreement to MRC Global Inc’s
USA operating company, McJunkin Red
Man Corporation. Under this agreement,
McJunkin Red Man will supply PVF for
MarkWest’s pipeline projects focused
in the Marcellus and Utica regions. The
agreement has a five-year term.
“We are very pleased that MarkWest is
placing their trust in MRC Global to work
with them to drive costs out of their
complex supply chain,” commented
Andrew Lane, MRC Global’s chairman,
president and CEO.
“MarkWest is a leader of midstream
services in the natural gas industry,
and we are very well positioned to
support their continued growth in this
market. When a company like MarkWest
chooses MRC Global for this type of
arrangement, we take that very seriously
and commit our significant supply chain
and PVF expertise and best-in-class
branch network toward the mutual
success of the agreement.”
Headquartered in Houston, Texas,
USA, MRC Global distributes pipe,
valves, fittings and related products
and services to the energy industry, and
supplies these products and services
across each of the upstream, midstream
and downstream sectors.
MRC Global Inc – USA
Delivering to Surgutneftegaz and Transneft
TMK, a producer of tubular products for
the oil and gas industry, has supplied
a complete set of high-tech tubular
products and equipment for a drill
column. Surgutneftegaz will use the
products to drill a well around 5,000m
deep.
“By fostering customer relationship we
aim to expand our offer from just top-
quality tailor-made tubular products to
a comprehensive value proposition for
oil and gas companies,” said Alexander
Shiryaev, TMK’s CEO.
“This approach is set to meet our
customers’ best expectations and assist
our partners in tackling their biggest
challenges.”
The company has also won Transneft’s
tender for large-diameter pipes (LDP)
supply. From January to April 2015,
TMK will supply Transneft and its
contractors with 31,583 tonnes of large-
diameter pipes, which will be produced
at its Volzhsky Pipe Plant and used for
repair and reconstruction of Transneft’s
oil trunk pipelines.
TMK manufactures and supplies steel
pipes for the oil and gas industry,
operating 28 production sites in the
USA, Russia, Canada, Romania, Oman,
UAE and Kazakhstan, and two R&D
centres in Russia and the USA. The
largest share of TMK’s sales belongs to
high margin oil country tubular goods
(OCTG), shipped to customers in over
80 countries.
TMK – Russia