Speaking to Upstream on the sidelines of the World Petroleum Congress, TMK board chairman Dmitry Pumpyansky said that the company is confident it has the requisite steel alloy blend to withstand aggressive nitrogen sulphide that is produced together with hydrocarbons on the field.
Onshore pipelines are also expected to be replaced, energy minister Uzakbay Karabalin said earlier at the Moscow event.
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TMK eyes Kashagan pipe work
Russian pipeline manufacturer TMK pipe is set to bid for a tender to replace two subsea pipelines running from artificial production islands on the Kashagan field in the Caspian Sea to the Bolashak onshore processing plant in Kazakhstan, according to a top company executive.
19 June 2014 7:53 GMT
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19 June 2014 7:53 GMT
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