TPI November 2020

Business & market news

Expert tube knowledge from Shanghai Steel Tube Association for over 20 years

Shanghai Steel Tube Association (SSTA) was founded in April 2000 with Baosteel as the first chairman of the group. There are 150 members belonging to the association, which is based in east China. Its member’s products include seamless tube (hot-rolled and cold- rolled), welded pipe (ERW, SSAW, LSAW, LBW, PAW, GTAW), double metal composite pipe, cold-formed hollow section and finned tubes. The materials include stainless steel, nickel alloy and carbon steel. Member companies also include pipe industry upstream and downstream production equipment manufacturers, logistic service providers, industry information and service providers and traders. Shanghai Steel Tube Association’s expert committee has 60 experts specialising in piping products. Many of the experts have working in this field for nearly 50 years. The association can provide suitable support and advice to mills in production and operation. The aims of the association are to: strengthentheindustryservices,industry self-discipline, industry representatives

and industry co-ordination; organisation of industry training and information exchange, exhibition and product promotion; participate in government decision-making, debate related to industry development and industry reform; provide suggestions related to economic and industrial policies and legislation; on behalf of the industry companies to participate in anti- dumping, anti-trust countervailing and other investigation or responding to the activities, or to the relevant government departments to apply for investigation; set industry quality standards, technical

procedures, service standards; carry out industry statistics, survey, issue industrial information, credit certificate, price co-ordination, industry access qualification and qualification audit; and finally to help to carry out economic and technical exchanges and co-operation in domestic and overseas markets. For further information please contact Lyndon Lau, director of General Service. Shanghai Steel Tube Association www.gghy.org

TechnipFMC signs major contract with ANOPC for new hydrocracking complex

TechnipFMC has signed an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract with Assiut National Oil Processing Company (ANOPC) for the construction of a new Hydrocracking Complex for the Assiut refinery in Egypt. This EPC contract covers new process units such as a vacuum distillation unit, a diesel hydrocracking unit, a delayed coker unit, a distillate hydrotreating unit as well as a hydrogen production facility unit using TechnipFMC’s steam reforming proprietary technology. The project also includes other process units, interconnecting, offsites and utilities.

Catherine MacGregor, president of Technip Energies, said: “This award demonstrates TechnipFMC’s long- standing relationship with the Egyptian petroleum sector and strengthens our expertise in the delivery of complex projects in the country. It comes after successful execution of the FEED(2), reflecting our selective approach and the importance of being involved at a very early stage of any development. Assiut is considered one of the major strategic projects needed to meet growing local demand for cleaner products, and we are extremely honoured to have been selected by ANOPC to contribute to the largest refining project to be implemented in Upper Egypt.”

The complex will transform lower-value petroleum products from Assiut Oil Refining Company’s (ASORC) nearby refinery into approximately 2.8 million tons per year of cleaner products, such as Euro 5 diesel. The company is working with ANOPC to complete the remaining conditions precedent to enable project work to commence. The company will include the contract award in its inbound when all the requirements are fulfilled. TechnipFMC www.technipfmc.com

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