OREANDA-NEWS. May 14, 2012. OJSC “Gazprom” representatives got acquainted with the distinctive features of manufacturing lines of OJSC “Volgogradneftemash”, member of SGM Group of Companies.

The excursion was held as a part of meeting between managers and specialists of gas transportation, project and supervising affiliates of OJSC “Gazprom” regarding operation of linear parts of trunk gas pipelines.

The equipment for manufacturing of ball valves up to 1400 mm in diameter including also unique turning-and-boring and spherical grinding machine centers was shown to the participants of the meeting. An updated pig launcher-receiver DN 1400 mm PN 10 MPa was also demonstrated to the guests. Its design with clamp seal with spherical nuts allows to increase loading capacity of a tray up to 9 t, decrease guide bearing resistance, exclude failure of locking mechanism during operation and etc.

OJSC “Gazprom” is the main user of OJSC “Volgogradneftemash” products. In 2011 the product release percentage of the enterprise delivered to the facilities of this gas company was 67% of the total amount of manufactured products.