TPi January 2016

Steel tubes and pipe

Multi-million pound contract on Maersk Culzean project

Services, a joint venture with Tata Steel, providing the coating services.

carbon steel welded line pipe, with the core element of the scope of supply encompassing a 53km 22" gas export pipeline that will tie into the existing central area transmission system (CATS). The gas export line will be manufactured at Tata Steel’s UOE LSAW pipe mill in Hartlepool, UK, with BSR Pipeline

Tata Steel has been awarded a multi- million pound contract for the Maersk Culzean project, located in the UK central North Sea – one of the largest discoveries in the region in the last ten years.

Richard Broughton, commercial manager, exploration and production, Tata Steel, commented, “We worked very closely with Maersk to ensure that the stringent technical requirements were understood. Our technical capability to manufacture low temperature pipelines with tight dimensional control is well proven, and I am confident that this was a key consideration in the tender evaluation. “Tata Steel has executed projects of this nature in the past with extreme precision and accuracy, ensuring achievement of project objectives and client goals. We are excited to be working with Maersk and Subsea7 to ensure the same outcome on this project.” Work was scheduled to start in September 2015, with an overall project duration for Tata Steel of 18 months.

The company will be responsible for providing more than 18,000 tonnes of

Tata Steel Europe Ltd – UK feedback@tatasteel.com www.tatasteeleurope.com

Pair of approvals for Centravis Centravis, a supplier of seamless stainless tubes and pipes, has been included on the approved manufacturers list of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company KBR. KBR delivers projects in more than 70 countries, in the areas of design and construction of civil infrastructure (airports, railways, highways, water supply systems, and sanitation facilities for the mining industry), construction of oil and gas refineries, chemical and petrochemical industries, state institutions’ service, and business ventures.

best known for its TGV and AGV series of high-speed trains.

“While Centravis is already working with a number of companies in the energy, construction, and oil and gas spheres, our inclusion into Alstom’s purchase system is a very important step for the company’s promotion in the European market,” said Peter Gorban, head of Centravis’s strategic marketing unit. “Cooperation with Alstom not only helps strengthen our position in machine building, it will also raise the prospect of attracting additional project orders.”

“KBR is one of the world’s top EPC companies, involved in a big part of the energy, petrochemicals, government services and civil infrastructure projects,” said Waldemar Scheiermann, head of Centravis sales, America. “Approval by KBR is an important achievement with regards to increasing our share in the US market, and yet another evidence of how Centravis meets the highest international standards.”

Centravis has also been certified and included on the approved manufactur- ers list of Alstom – a producer of rail- way transport and power equipment. The French engineering company manufactures railway locomotives, various trains, trams, power equipment, and electrostatic precipitators for industrial production, and is probably

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