TMK Qualified to Supply Line Pipes for Sakhalin-2 project
Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) has successfully passed Sakhalin Energy’s qualification for the supply of linear oil and gas pipes for the transportation of hydrocarbons within the Sakhalin-2 project. Pipes produced by the Volzhsky Pipe Plant (VTZ), which is part of TMK, will be able to be supplied for onshore and underwater parts of oil and gas pipelines.
TMK enterprises can potentially supply partners with high-tech large-diameter pipes that are resistant to deformation and low temperatures, which is important given Sakhalin’s climatic and seismic conditions.
“For several years, TMK’s high-tech solutions have been successfully used for hydrocarbon production on the Russian shelf, where imported pipe products were previously used. We have already delivered more than 1.2 thousand tons of oil and gas pipes for hydrocarbon production to Sakhalin-2, and more than 80% of this volume were premium casing pipes with highly reliable TMK UP threaded connections. We are ready to expand our participation in the project and start delivering line pipes at the request of our partners, ”said Sergey Chikalov, TMK Deputy General Director for Scientific and Technical Development and Technical Sales.
In 2014, Sakhalin Energy invited TMK to start cooperation on premium casing, at the same time both parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding and began cooperation to qualify TMK’s premium pipe products in accordance with international standards. The first deliveries of TMK products for the Sakhalin-2 project took place in March 2017. Since 2018, upon completion of the international qualification of one of the diameters, the company has been shipping premium casing pipes with TMK UP PF threaded connections to partners. VTZ is the supplier of premium pipe products for Sakhalin Energy. Successful cooperation of the companies in this area continues, at the moment the qualification of premium-class pipes of other diameters is nearing completion.
