TPi November 2014

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Coating contracts for South Stream Pipeline ShawCor Ltd’s pipe coating division, Bredero Shaw, has received a contract with a value of approximately US$50mn from Marubeni Sumitomo Consortium for coating services for Line 2 of the South Stream Offshore Pipeline. The Black Sea, Bulgaria, where the pipeline will be built

The South Stream Offshore Pipeline system consists of four pipelines that will cross the Black Sea and transport gas from Russia to Bulgaria and on to Central and Southern Europe. The contract, which will be executed at a pipe coating facility in Bredero Shaw’s EMAR region, involves coating approximately 342km of 32" pipe with three-layer polypropylene and internal flow coating. Canusa-CPS, ShawCor’s field-applied pipeline coatings and services division, has received a contract with a value of approximately C$30mn from Saipem SpA to provide field joint coating services for Line 1 of the South Stream Offshore Pipeline.

This contract involves the manufacture of three-layer polypropylene heat shrink sleeves, and their application on each pipe weld of the 900km 32" offshore pipeline utilising the Canusa- CPS patented IntelliCOAT TM automated system. ShawCor Ltd specialises in products and services for pipeline and

pipe services and the petrochemical and industrial segments of the oil and gas industry. The company has more than 75 manufacturing and service facilities located around the world.

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November 2014 Tube Products International