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OAO "TMK" ( and ) is one of the world's leading producers of steel pipes for the oil and gas sector. It produces a wide range of pipe grades used in the oil

Oil

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and gas

Gas

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sector, the chemical and petrochemical industries, for construction and housing, shipbuilding, aviation, as well as for space industry needs and applications. Its pipes are manufactured from carbon steel, stainless and heat-resistant steels, and titanium and nickel alloys.

Founded in 2001, it has production plants in Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, the United States

United States

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, Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

and Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

and has an annual production capacity of more than 6 million tonnes of pipe

Pipe (material)

A pipe is a tubular section or hollow cylinder, usually but not necessarily of circular cross-section, used mainly to convey substances which can flow — liquids and gases , slurries, powders, masses of small solids...

products that it delivers to companies in more than 65 countries. TMK employs 50,000 employees worldwide and 2008 net sales were around US$5.8 billion. In 2009, TMK ranked first globally in shipment volumes with over 2.7 million tonnes of pipe products sold for the year.

TMK clients include major oil and gas companies such as Gazprom

Gazprom

Open Joint Stock Company Gazprom is the largest extractor of natural gas in the world and the largest Russian company. Its headquarters are in Cheryomushki District, South-Western Administrative Okrug, Moscow...

, Transneft

Transneft

Transneft is a Russian state-owned business responsible for the national oil pipelines. It was founded in 1993 and owns the largest oil pipeline system in the world, with a total network length of almost...

, Lukoil

LUKoil

Lukoil/LUKoil ; ) is Russia's second largest oil company and its second largest producer of oil. In 2009, the company produced 97.615 million tons of oil; ....

, Rosneft

Rosneft

Rosneft is an integrated oil company majority owned by the Government of Russia. Rosneft is headquartered in Moscow’s Balchug district near the Kremlin, across the Moskva river...

, TNK

TNK

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-BP

BP p.l.c. is a global oil and gas company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest energy company and fourth-largest company in the world measured by revenues and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors"...

, Surgutneftegas

Surgutneftegas

Surgutneftegas is a Russian major oil and gas company. It was created in 1993 by merging several previously state-owned companies with large oil and gas reserves in Western Siberia. The company's headquarters are located in Surgut, Tyumen Oblast....

, Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell plc , commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the fifth-largest company in the world according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine and one of the six...

, Total S.A.

Total S.A.

Total S.A. is a French multinational oil company and one of the six "Supermajor" oil companies in the world.Its businesses cover the entire oil and gas chain, from crude oil and natural gas exploration and production to power generation, transportation, refining, petroleum product marketing, and...

, Occidental Petroleum

Occidental Petroleum

Occidental Petroleum Corporation is a California-based oil and gas exploration and production company with operations in the United States, the Middle East, North Africa, and South America...

, Anadarko Petroleum, Saudi Aramco

Saudi Aramco

Saudi Aramco , officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, is the national oil company of Saudi Arabia.Saudi Aramco is the world's largest and most valuable privately-held company, with estimates of its value in 2011 to be $7 trillion USD.Saudi Aramco has both the largest proven crude oil reserves,...

, AGIP

Agip

Agip is an Italian automotive gasoline and diesel retailer established in 1926. It is a subsidiary of the multinational petroleum company Eni.In 2003, Eni S.p.A...

, Wintershall

Wintershall

Wintershall AG is the largest crude oil and natural gas producer in Germany. The company is based in Kassel, Germany. Wintershall is a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF, based in Ludwigshafen. The name Wintershall is derived from the surname of the enterprise co-founder Carl Julius Winter and the...

, ONGC, Kuwait Oil Company, Repsol, and Statoil

Statoil

Statoil ASA is a Norwegian petroleum company established in 1972. It merged with Norsk Hydro in 2007 and was known as StatoilHydro until 2009, when the name was changed back to Statoil ASA. The brand Statoil was retained as a chain of fuel stations owned by StatoilHydro...

. TMK also supplied pipes in many Russian and international projects, including the Caspian Pipeline Consortium

Caspian Pipeline Consortium

The Caspian Pipeline Consortium is a consortium and a pipeline to transport Caspian oil from Tengiz field to the Novorossiysk-2 Marine Terminal on Russia's Black Sea coast. It is also a major export route for oil from the Kashagan and Karachaganak fields...

crude pipeline system, the Baltic Pipeline System

Baltic Pipeline System

The Baltic Pipeline System is a Russian oil transport system operated by the oil pipeline company Transneft. The BPS transports oil from the Timan-Pechora region, West Siberia and Urals-Volga regions to Primorsk oil terminal at the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland.-History:The project started...

, and the Yamal-Europe pipeline

Yamal-Europe pipeline

The Yamal–Europe natural gas pipeline is a long pipeline connecting natural gas fields in Western Siberia and in the future on the Yamal peninsula, Russia, with Germany.-History:...

. TMK is also a supplier in the expansion of the Central Asia-Center gas pipeline system

Central Asia-Center gas pipeline system

The Central Asia – Center gas pipeline system is a Gazprom controlled system of natural gas pipelines, which run from Turkmenistan via Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to Russia. The eastern branch includes the Central Asia - Center 1, 2, 4 and 5 pipelines, which start from the south-eastern gas fields...

Production facilities

The Company’s Russian plants are Volzhsky Pipe Plant, Seversky Tube Works, Sinarsky Pipe Plant, Taganrog Metallurgical Works, Orsky Machine Building Plant, and Truboplast.

TMK’s Romanian assets include TMK-Artrom pipe plant (since February 2002) and TMK-Reşita metallurgical works.

In June 2008, TMK finalised the acquisition of IPSCO Tubulars Inc in the United States and acquired Uralsk, Kazakhstan-based Kaztrubprom.

TMK IPSCO facilities include:

Ambridge (Ambridge, PA
Ambridge, Pennsylvania
Ambridge is a borough in Beaver County in Western Pennsylvania, incorporated in 1905 and named after the American Bridge Company. Ambridge is located 16 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, alongside the Ohio River. In 1910, 5,205 people lived in Ambridge; in 1920, 12,730 people lived there, and in...

- Seamless OCTG)
Baytown (Baytown, TX - Heat treating, threading)
Blytheville (Blytheville, AR - ERW OCTG, line pipe, standard pipe, heat treating, threading)
Camanche (Camanche, IA - ERW OCTG, line pipe, standard pipe, threading)
Geneva (Geneva, NE - ERW HSS)
Houston Ultra (Houston, TX - Premium connections)
Koppel (Koppel, PA
Koppel, Pennsylvania
Koppel is a borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 856 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Koppel is located at ....

- Billets, heat treating)
Odessa Ultra (Odessa, TX - Premium connections)
Tulsa (Tulsa, OK - Heat treating, threading)
Wilder (Wilder, KY
Wilder
-People:*Abel Carter Wilder , American businessman and politician*Alan Wilder , British electronic musician*Alec Wilder , composer and songwriter*Billy Wilder , Austrian-born American film director*Burt Green Wilder...

- ERW OCTG, standard pipe)
Brookfield Ultra (Brookfield, OH - Premium connections)

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