According to TMK, in 2019 the Russian pipe market will mostly follow trends of the previous year. In 2018 pipes consumption dropped slightly following the decrease in housing construction. At the same time OCTG and large diameter pipes witnessed an increase in demand. This year TMK expects the growth of local pipe consumption by 2%…
Industry and Trade Ministry has sent a letter to Gazprom suggesting changes into the company’s order of pipeline procurements that ensure equal rights for all pipe sellers. The ministry has adjusted Gazprom’s procurement standard together with the Federal Antimonopoly Service and pipeline producers to minimize procurements from a single supplier to ensure equal access of…
In 2018 steel pipe exports grew by 29.9% YoY, to $737.852 million, while imports – by 50.5%, to $181.471 million. According to the State Fiscal Service, in December 2018 pipe exports dropped by 1.1% YoY, to $56.405 million, while imports increased by 47.4%, to $19.572 million. US were the largest importer of steel pipes in…
In January-November 2018 Russia exported 2.3 million tons of steel pipes valued at $2.46 billion, up by 23% and by 38.4% YoY respectively. According to the customs statistics, Finland remains the leading importer, having purchased 19.7% of all pipes. Still exports to Finland fell by 23.5% YoY. Kazakhstan holds the share of 17.5%, up by…
The Federal Antimonopoly Service will check the reasoning behind the increase of the drilling pipe prices. In particular, FAS will investigate the increase of the price of pipe and metal purchased by oil companies. Russian metal and pipe prices follow world trends with a slight delay. In January-July the market witnessed a rise of hot-rolled…
Gazprom accounted for 58% of the market of the large diameter pipes in 2018. The share of Transneft was 14%. In 2018 Gazprom announced the purchase of 3.006 million tons of LDP valued at 252 billion rubles. Of this amount 1.669 million tons at 140 billion rubles have been purchased. Zagorsky Pipe Works concluded contracts…
In January-November Ukraine increased pipe output by 5.7% YoY, to 1.019 million tons, including 78.2 thousand tons in November. In particular, Ukrtrubprom enterprises produced 732.7 thousand tons of pipes in 11 months, up by 14.1% YoY, including 55.4 thousand tons in November. Khartsyzsk Pipe Works and Lugansk Pipe Works were idle. Interpipe-NTZ produced 255.6 thousand…
Vyborg Ship-building Works is one of the key partners of Sanesta-Metal. The company supplies steel pipes to the plant. In 2017-2018 some deliveries were connected with the projects to construct fishing trawlers of new generation. Two freezing trawlers are being constructed at the order of the Arkhangelsk Trawler Fleet. The plant is also building 4…