In November pipes output continued falling, dropping by 2.1% MoM to 839 thousand tons.
In January-November steel pipes output decreased by 12.2% YoY, to 9.2 million tons.
Seamless pipes output in November reached 279 thousand tons, up by 5.3% MoM, large diameter electric-welded pipes – 244 thousand tons, down by 6.2%, other electric-welded pipes – 298 thousand tons, down by 5.9% MoM.
Russia produced 2.5 thousand tons of drilling pipes, 82.2 thousand tons of casing pipes and 46.1 thousand tons of compressor-pump pipes, down by 27.1%, and up by 4.5% and by 2.3% MoM respectively. (Ukrainian metal)