March 2013 Tube Products International
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Premium pipes at
Yurkharovskoye field
TMK, a global manufacturer and
supplier of steel pipes for the oil and
gas industry, has run its casing pipes
with ТМК PF premium connections in
the onshore and offshore parts of the
well at Novatek’s Yurkharovskoye field.
The company’s specialists already
provided support of the two similar
runs at this field in 2011 and in 2012
– then the first instance of Russian
pipes being used in the construction of
wells consisting of a vertical onshore
part and a horizontal offshore one. The
total depth of the runs was 5,602m and
5,786m respectively.
This time, a column of 204 casing pipes
with ТМК PF premium connections was
also run into the well that starts on land
and goes under the bed of the Karsk
Sea. The total depth of the run reached
5,845m – the deepest well made with
ТМК premium casing pipes. Field tests
confirmed the column’s serviceability.
“We continue accumulating the valuable
experience of running pipe columns
with our premium connections,” said
Sergei Bilan, TMK’s vice president for
premium products and services. “The
use of TMK’s premium pipes in the Far
North for deep and complex shape
wells is a great evidence of their high
performance and a source of important
data for our experts enabling them to
improve our products and work out
effective innovative solutions.”
TMK operates around 30 production
sites in the United States, Canada,
Russia, 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, shipped to
customers in more than 80 countries.
The company delivers its products along
with an extensive package of services
in heat treating, protective coating,
premium connections threading,
warehousing and pipe repairing.
TMK
– Russia
Offshore processing centre
Tata Steel has inaugurated its new £2
million offshore processing centre (OPC)
at an event attended by more than
40 leading business figures from the
European renewable energy sector.
Following a presentation at Hartlepool
College of Further Education, guests
were shown round the company’s new
centre, a high-productivity processing
facility that will produce welded tubular
assemblies to be used in the fabrication
of jacket foundations for offshore wind
turbines.
They also visited Tata Steel’s 42" tube
mill, one of three tube mills located at
the Hartlepool site.
The OPC will play a pivotal role in
supplying the renewables sector,
manufacturing
highly
refined
components for the offshore wind
sector that can be prepared for welding
onto finished structures, shortening
throughput times and improving cost
efficiency for customers.
Once manufactured, the components
will be stored for shipment in kit form
to fabricators in the UK and mainland
Europe, using local deepwater ports
and the UK rail network.
Tata Steel has also forged a supply
agreement with German steel tube
producer Eisenbau Krämer (EBK) to
complement its own product portfolio,
creating a comprehensive package
across a full size range of tubulars.
Under the supply agreement tubes
from 400mm diameter upwards will be
produced by both companies from plate
manufactured by Tata Steel’s plants in
England and Scotland.
In addition to tubulars for jacket
foundation structures, Tata Steel will
also supply smaller sized tubes and
sections suitable for primary and
secondary steel work within wind
turbine fabrications.
Deirdre Fox, sales and marketing
director for energy and power at Tata
Steel, said, “The creation of a strong
renewable energy industry is dependent
upon delivering efficient, cost-effective
supply chains.”
“The investment in our new offshore
processing centre is a key part of our
drive to meet this challenge and offer
the products and services the industry
needs to meet the growing renewables
requirement.”
Tata Steel Europe Ltd
– UK
