TPI November 2024

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Royal designation for Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group

van Leeuwen once started as a one man business and what has grown into an international, leading company. For a family business, continuity is one of its most important core values. As chairman of the management board, but especially as the grandson of the founder, I consider it a great honour that our company may carry the Royal designation. This is literally the crowning achievement of our work, now also visible in our redesigned logo.” Joop Sassen, member of the management board and CEO, said: “Van Leeuwen has grown through innovative entrepreneurship and the knowledge and expertise that we have built up over a hundred years. Without our customers, suppliers and international teams, we would never have been able to achieve our position as a globally leading pipe and tube distributor. The Royal designation underlines Van Leeuwen’s strength and stability.” In recent years, Van Leeuwen has invested tens of millions of euros in modernising and expanding its international network and machinery. This year, a monorail was put into operation in Zwijndrecht, the largest border, Trion represents a pioneering greenfield development. It is poised to be the first production site from Mexico’s deep water with potential for future discoveries to be tied back to Trion’s facilities. Trion is an alliance between Woodside Petróleo Operaciones de México, S de RL de CV (60 per cent, operator) and Pemex Exploración y Producción (40 per cent, non-operator). The development involves a wet tree subsea system connected to an infield floating production unit, which will be linked to a floating storage and offloading unit, ensuring efficient extraction and processing of the resources. This award is another milestone in Corinth Pipeworks’ offshore presence in the Gulf of Mexico, as end-users and contractors acknowledge the benefits of its welded pipe technology for critical offshore applications.

The Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group celebrates its 100-year anniversary this year. His majesty king Willem-Alexander, king of the Netherlands, has granted the company the designation ‘Royal’ to mark the occasion. In September the king’s commissioner Wouter Kolff presented the award to the company. The award ceremony took place during an anniversary celebration, held by the international steel pipe and tube distributor, at its own location in Zwijndrecht with 300 guests from the Netherlands and abroad. The king’s commissioner in the province of Zuid-Holland, Mr Kolff, presented the award to the management board. The Royal designation is only awarded on a special anniversary to companies that have prestige in terms of nature, size and reliability and occupy a leading or very prominent position in their field in the Netherlands, preferably with an international reputation. The company must have existed for at least a hundred years and have built up a good reputation during that period. Peter Rietberg, chairman of the management board, said: “We are proud of this recognition of what Piet

The king’s commissioner Wouter Kolff presented the Royal award to the company

tube sorting system in the world with a length of 315m. Van Leeuwen also opened the World Tube Center, an experience centre showcasing the company, its various market segments and the broad range of products, services and applications.

On the occasion of its centenary, Van Leeuwen and its shareholders, the Rietberg family, jointly established the Van Leeuwen Education Foundation. The Foundation is committed to promoting equal opportunities for everyone by supporting initiatives that enable access to quality education. The Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group www.vanleeuwen.com Woodside Energy awards significant Trion offshore project to Corinth Pipeworks

The pipes will be manufactured at Corinth Pipeworks’ state-of-the-art facilities. The scope of supply also includes the application of external coating and concrete weight coating, all of which will be performed at the same location as the pipe manufacturing. This integrated approach ensures optimal quality control and efficiency throughout the production and coating processes. “We are delighted to be selected by Woodside Energy for the Trion offshore project,” said Ilias Bekiros, general manager at Corinth Pipeworks. “This award underscores our commit- ment to delivering high quality solutions that meet the stringent demands of deep-water energy developments. We look forward to contributing to this ground-breaking project.” Corinth Pipeworks www.cpw.gr

Corinth Pipeworks has been awarded a significant contract by Woodside Energy, as operator of the Trion deep water field, to manufacture and supply approximately 118km of high frequency welded (HFW) steel pipes. The Trion field is located in the Perdido Fold Belt in Mexican waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Situated approximately 180km off the Mexican coastline and 30km south of the US-Mexico maritime

The development involves a wet tree subsea system connected to an infield floating production unit

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