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Essar Steel to Supply API Plate for Hydrocarbon Sector
06/01/2011 - Essar Steel has secured an order for API grade plates from National Petroleum Construction Co., UAE, for offshore platforms. The order is expected to be executed by July 2011.
Essar Steel has secured an order for API grade plates valued at $14 million from National Petroleum Construction Co., UAE. Essar says it is the first Indian steel company and only sixth in the world to get approved for the use of the American Petroleum Institute (API) monogram on 2H, 2W, and 2Y grades of steel plates for the hydrocarbon industry.
This approval will help the company serve the domestic market as well as international markets, including the Middle East and Europe.
National Petroleum Construction has won an engineering, procurement, and construction contract in India to build offshore platforms for ONGC for B series and N-15 & N-16 -6 wellhead platforms project at offshore Mumbai High Field.
Essar Steel will supply steel plates with width ranging from 2 to 4 m for N15 and N16 parts of this project. The company claims to be the only steel mill in India that has developed the API standard high-tensile grades up to 63.5 mm for deep-sea offshore platform applications.
The order is expected to be executed by July 2011.
The plate mill has an annual production capacity of 1.5 million tonnes. Equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and technology sourced from Siemens Voest Alpine, the mill is capable of producing 5-m-wide plates conforming to global standards.
The plate mill has finishing facilities that include normalized rolled, furnace-normalized, direct quenched, quenched and tempered (QT) plates, shot blasting, austenising and Accelerated Direct Cooling (ADCO). The mill is capable of producing plates with a thickness ranging from 5 to 150 mm, width from 900 to 4900 mm, and 3 to 25 m long.
The plates find application in diverse segments, including defense, oil and gas, boilers and pressure vessels, heavy-duty earthmoving machines, wind towers, mine-protective vehicles, and construction.
Essar Steel is a fully integrated flat carbon steel manufacturer with production capacity of 14 million tonnes per annum. It has presence in North America, Europe, Middle East and South East Asia, UK, UAE and Indonesia. It is a versatile flat steel producer with integrated facilities from extra wide plates, hot rolling, cold rolling, galvanizing and color coating, pipes with a full distribution business with Service Centers and Steel Hypermarts.
