The Russian steel and pipe producer United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has announced that, since the commencement of deliveries in May this year, its Novgorod-based pipe producer Vyksa Steel Works (Vyksa) has supplied more than 200,000 mt of large diameter pipes for the construction of the first line of the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
The pipes of 1,219 mm diameter and with wall thicknesses of 30.9 mm, 34.6 mm and 41 mm are manufactured from high quality steel of K70 (X60) strength class with external three-layered anti-corrosive coating and internal smooth coating.
As SteelOrbis previous reported, up to November this year OMK subsidiary Vyksa is expected to deliver 262,600 mt of LD pipes, i.e. 25 percent of the total orders for the pipeline project. The supply contract between OMK and Nord Stream AG was signed on November 6, 2007.
Currently, OMK is participating in the tender for the supply of pipes for the construction of the second line of the Nord Stream gas pipeline. "We expect to succeed and are ready in March 2010 to start the pipe production," Vyksa's executive director Vladimir Kochetkov stated.
The Nord Stream gas pipeline with a length of 1,220 km will link Russia and the European Union via the Baltic Sea.