TMK, one of the world’s leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has shipped seamless line pipe to Gazprom to develop the offshore pipeline at the Kirinskoye gas condensate field on the Sakhalin Island shelf.

The technical specifications of seamless line pipe for the Kirinskoye field were developed jointly with Gazprom R&D Division in accordance with the Russian gas monopoly requirements, which are much more stricter than international standards for offshore pipelines, including the DNV-OS-F101 standard.

Beginning in 2014, the Kirinskoye field will become a source of gas for the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok gas transmission system. The field’s natural gas reserves are 75.4 billion cubic meters; its gas condensate reserves are 8.6 million tonnes.

“TMK made this delivery as part of its offshore program, which we are actively developing as a strategy to expand TMK’s premium business segment,” said Alexander Shiryaev, TMK CEO. “The technical specifications for this pipe, agreed with Gazprom, significantly exceed the requirements specified by international standards for offshore pipelines”.