OREANDA-NEWS. August 28, 2014. Severstal, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated steel and steel-related mining companies, has commenced shipments of large diameter pipes for The Power of Siberia gas transmission system project.

The pipes are manufactured at the Izhora Pipe Mill, which is part of Severstal’s Russian Steel Division.

The shipments follow and are in accordance with the results of the project’s first tender, which was held in June 2013, and include 1,420 mm diameter pipes made of K60 steel grade with internal and external anti-corrosion coating designed for 9.8 MPa working pressure. The first shipment of 2,000 tonnes of pipes has been already shipped from the Izhora Pipe Mill.

Vitaliy Motorin, Director of Pipe Production at the Severstal Russian Steel Division, commented: “Our leading technological capabilities allow us to produce market leading pipes with specific performance characteristics. As part of our innovation, we have successfully developed the technology to produce pipes for gas transmission passing through tectonic zones and these are being used in The Power of Siberia project.

In addition to the large diameter pipes, Severstal’s site located in Kolpino is shipping strips produced by the №3 Steel rolling shop of the Cherepovets Still Mill to the Chelyabinsk Tube-rolling Mill. The first shipment of 4,000 tons of K60 rolled steel will also be used for pipe production at the Vysota239 rolling shop for The Power of Siberia project.

* The Power of Siberia is a gas transmission system to transport gas from the Yakutia and Irkutsk gas production centers to the Far East and China. In May 2014, Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation signed a contract to supply China with Russian pipeline gas. It is expected that Russia will supply 38 million m3/yr under this 30 year contract.