According to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute, the country’s imports of seamless steel pips totaled 11,974 tonnes in July, plunging by 47.96% from the same period of a year ago. During the first seven months, imports of seamless pipe totaled 121,678 tonnes, dropping by 0.1% YoY. China was the largest seamless steel pipe.. read more →

02 Oct 2014
October 2, 2014

Steel pipe Stops Truck in its Tracks

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You may think you’re tough, but you’ll never be as tough as this steel pipe. Newly released video shows a 6800kg truck barrelling towards the pipe at 80km an hour and coming to an abrupt halt. While the pipe doesn’t budge, the truck’s bonnet and windscreen are thrown forward with incredible velocity. Remarkably, the barrels.. read more →

Enbridge Forecast Mainline Oil Pipeline Expansion (Reuters) – Enbridge Inc, Canada’s largest pipeline operator, said on Tuesday it may have to build new pipeline capacity from its Superior, Wisconsin, storage hub if oil shipments from Canada and the Bakken shale field of North Dakota keep expanding. Speaking at the company’s annual investor day in Toronto,.. read more →

In August this year, Ukraine steel pipe exportes $82.398 million worth of steel pipes, while its steel pipe imports totaled a value of $6.68 million, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Revenue and Duties. Despite the tense situation between the two countries, the main importer of Ukrainian pipes in August was Russia, with a share worth.. read more →

According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), China’s daily output of welded steel pipes averaged at 136,516 tons in July, decreasing by 9% from a month ago but rising slightly by 0.5% year on year. In July, China’s welded steel pipe output totaled 4.23 million tons, lower than 4.51 million tons.. read more →

FONTANA, Calif., Sept. 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — California Steel Industries, Inc. (CSI) today announced that its subsidiary, CSI Tubular Products, Inc. (CSITP), has produced the first pipe off its electrical resistance welded (ERW) new pipe mill at the Company’s site near Fontana, California, and is taking fourth quarter customer orders for the new mill, as it.. read more →

Mexica demands AD investigation into Steel Pipe from India, Spain, US Some Mexican pipe producer request anti dumping duties of 40 -120 percent on imports of carbon steel pipe used for oil and gas pipe lines. The international trade practices unit of Mexican Ministry of Economy commenced anti dumping procedures for certain pipe and tubular.. read more →

When a gas company breaks pavement to replace old gas line pipe, the pipe is just part of the cost. “When you’re doing this kind of work in the city, it’s slow and very costly,” said Ken Johnston, Peoples Natural Gas Co. vice president of operations. Ancillary costs can more than double a project’s price.. read more →

26 Sep 2014
September 26, 2014

Avista replacing brittle natural gas lines

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More than 350 miles of brittle, accident-prone natural gas lines run under the Inland Northwest. Shorter sections of the pipe made from the same material join the steel mainline of gas to almost 7,500 homes, a constellation of connections across the region where there can be 55 per mile in Spokane. On Wednesday, workers contracted.. read more →

MOBILE, Alabama — Two pipe manufacturing companies on the Gulf Coast have been contracted to make several tons of large diameter pipe for a natural gas pipeline project in Texas. Mobile’s Berg Spiral Pipe and its sister company Berg Steel Pipe in Panama City, Fla., subsidiaries of Germany’s Europipe Gmbh, will jointly produce some 480,000.. read more →