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8 TUBE PRODUCTS INTERNATIONAL March 2017
newsbusiness & market
Tenaris presents new premium threading
facility in Kazakhstan
Tenaris has established a new
premium threading facility in Aktau,
Kazakhstan. The plant will support the
company’s long-term agreement with
Karachaganak Petroleum Operating
(KPO), plus key operator Tengizchevroil
(TCO), and will enhance the service offer
to other customers operating in major
Kazakhstan fields with commercial,
technical, field service and supply chain
logistics expertise.
“Tenaris has been a key supplier
of OCTG in Kazakhstan, and our
Aktau plant is critical to our ability
to provide customised solutions with
sophisticated products in a region that
presents some of the most complex
drilling environments,” said Tenaris
chairman and CEO Paolo Rocca. “An
investment like this today reinforces
our commitment to serving the region’s
oil and gas sector, to our people, our
customers, and the community.”
The facility already employs 40 people
and is scheduled to hire up to 90 direct
employees once at full capacity, with 95
per cent local jobs. The US$40mn facility
has the capacity to produce 45,000 tons
of OCTG, and was designed according
to the highest safety standards. The
facility will operate under Tenaris’s global
quality, health, safety and environment
(QHSE) policy, ISO 9001.
From this facility, Tenaris will thread
seamless pipes and gas-tight premium
connections, and it is equipped to apply
its proprietary Dopeless® technology, a
dry, multifunctional coating that offers
operational and HSE benefits.
Tenaris’s products are able to withstand
Kazakhstan’s challenging operating
conditions, both onshore and offshore,
and field service specialists are ready to
assist operators throughout their entire
projects.
Tenaris has been operating in
Kazakhstan since 2004 with offices in
Aktau, Almaty, Aksai and Atyrau, and a
service centre in Aksai.
Tenaris SA – Luxembourg
Tenaris SA has built a Kazakhstan production facility