United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has received a letter of appreciation from Tatneft for its participation in the project for construction of the oil pipeline connecting Kaleykino Oil Pumping Station to Nizhnekamsk Oil Refinery (NPS Kaleykino-Nizhnekamsk NPZ).

“Tatneft appreciates your efficient and well coordinated organization of work to supply equipment and materials to the facilities of the NPS Kaleykino-Nizhnekamsk NPZ oil pipeline under construction and to rehabilitate the long-distance oil-products pipeline Nizhnekamsk-Almetyevsk-Kstovo,” reads the letter from Tatneft Deputy Director General Fyodor Shchelkov.

The rehabilitation of the long-distance oil-products pipeline Nizhnekamsk-Almetyevsk-Kstovo and the construction of the oil pipeline Kaleykino Oil Pumping Station-Nizhnekamsk Oil Refinery were performed by the contractor Tatneft by order of the customer Transneft.

Under this project, from July through August 2009, OMK supplied 80.5 kilometers of pipes of 530 mm in diameter, 52 km of 720-mm pipes and 32 km of 377-mm pipes. The Company’s share accounted for 50% of the total pipe supply.

United Metallurgical Company (OMK) is one of Russia's largest producers of pipes, railroad wheels, and other metal products for energy, transport, and industrial companies. OMK comprises 7 largest enterprises in the metallurgical sector. The OMK Pipe-Rolling Division comprises Vyksa Steel Works (Nizhni Novgorod Region), Almetyevsk Pipe Plant (Republic of Tatarstan), and Trubodetal (Chelyabinsk Region); the OMK Steel Works Division comprises Chusovoy Metallurgical Works and Gubakha Coke (Perm Territory), Shchelkovo Steel Works (Moscow Region) and Casting and Rolling Complex (Nizhni Novgorod Region)

In 2008, OMK products accounted for 16% of pipes consumed in Russia, including 35% of large diameter pipes, 63% of railroad wheels, and 80% of automobile springs. In 2008, the OMK enterprises produced 1.5 million tonnes of pipes of various sizes and 783 thousand railroad wheels. The main consumers of OMK products include such leading Russian and foreign companies as Gazprom, Russian Railways, LUKOIL, Transneft, Surgutneftegas, Rosneft, TNK-BP, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, General Electric, and Samsung. OMK supplies its products to 20 countries.

OMK Press Office, telephone: 231-77-75, e-mail: press@omk.ru

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