TPi November 2019

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Tata Steel wins high frequency pipe contract for North Sea project

Barry Rust, marketing manager, energy and sustainability, said, “This latest contract award builds on our success in the North Sea, where we have secured eight projects in just over a year, and we look forward to further success as activity in the region improves. The stringent dimensional controls offered by our HFI process provides superior shape and ‘weldability’ for faster offshore welding, and our supply chain control ensures we can comply with even the tightest project schedules.” With steelmaking in the Netherlands and the UK, and manufacturing plants across Europe, Tata Steel supplies steel products to demanding markets, including construction and infrastructure, automotive, packaging and engineering.

The scope of work involves five different wall thicknesses and five different diameters, and the contract duration is 28 weeks. Tata Steel has supplied more than one million tonnes of pipeline for oil and gas projects in the North Sea over 24 years, including in excess of 500,000m of reel-installed pipe, and more than £250mn invested in subcontracts for North Sea projects.

Tata Steel has secured a contract to provide high frequency induction (HFI) line pipe for an oil and gas project northeast of Shetland in the UK North Sea. The company will manufacture more than 10km of HFI line pipe from its 20" mill in Hartlepool, UK, for ‘sleeve pipe application’ – housing smaller, critical pipelines – as part of a bundle system for the project.

Tata Steel Europe Ltd – UK www.tatasteeleurope.com

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