Finland-based stainless steel producer Outokumpu has announced that it is delivering 22,000 mt of Duplex 2205 stainless steel to a natural gas field project in Oman. Deliveries will start during the first half of the current year and will continue until 2016. Outokumpu said that this is the largest single project order for duplex stainless steel that the company has ever won.
Material from Outokumpu will be welded into tubes by Europe-based Sosta and Inox Tech. Sosta is a major manufacturer of welded stainless steel pipe, focusing on the oil and gas market worldwide, with its pipes used, for example, in gas exploration and liquefied natural gas plants and terminals. Inox Tech is a leading producer specialized in corrosion-resistant alloy large diameter heavy wall welded pipes.