Essar Steel becomes vendor for Abu Dhabi's GASCO

Essar Steel India today announced it had become an approved vendor for Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Ltd (GASCO), for supply of high grade pipes and plates that can withstand the risk of corrosion from sour gas.

This is the biggest milestone for the company in West Asia till date. This has opened up the opportunities for securing orders from GASCO.

According to company sources, Essar Steel after this approval, joins the ranks of the a few global steel giants and is the only Indian company to have received such an approval.

The approval would cement Essar Steel's position further in the highly demanding global oil and natural gas industry. The company had in recent times got approvals from, among others, American Petroleum Institute (API) certification, Shell Global, ENI, SOCAR, Occidental-Qatar, ECOPETROL, Pacific Rubiales, Fluor and Kvaerner.

"Receiving this approval is a matter of pride for us and is a reflection of Essar Steel's integrated capability to produce world class pipes in order to cater to the wide range of pipe products manufactured through various routes. The Pipe Mill has full-fledged facilities for inspection and testing to ensure production of high quality pipes, including sour service. We aim to become the preferred supplier of quality steel pipes to all our customers, domestically and globally," said recently appointed CEO - Pipe Mill, H S Bedi.

Bedi, an industry veteran, took charge as CEO of Pipe Mill as part of its strategy to augment pipe business as a specialized vertical in the competitive steel market.

Essar Steel's pipe mill located at Hazira has the capability to manufacture 6,00,000 tonnes of line pipes comprising 2,75,000mt per annum of API-grade HSAW (Helical Submerged Arc Welding) Line pipes, ranging from diameters 16" to 110", thicknesses 6.4mm to 25.4mm in grades through and up to X-80 and 3,25,000mt per annum of API-grade LSAW (Longitudinal Submerged Arc Welding) Line pipes, ranging from diameters 16" to 60", thicknesses 6.4mm to 65mm in Grades through and up to X-80.

The facility is an amalgamation of best-in-class technologies including Tube mill, Welding technology, and Inspection technology and is fully automated with the least manpower requirement with respect to the prevailing industry norms. It is supported by a coating plant in the same location.