TMK Ipsco Begins Development of New Premium Facility in Canada
03/22/2012 - TMK Ipsco has begun development of a new 33,000 square-foot pipe threading and service facility in Edmonton, Alta., Canada. The facility will thread a full range of ULTRA™ Premium connections and will offer a full line of accessories, services and repairs.
TMK Ipsco has begun development of a new 33,000 square-foot pipe threading and service facility in Edmonton, Alta., Canada.
The facility’s state-of-the-art production equipment will thread a full range of ULTRA™ Premium connections, from 4 1/2 to 13 3/8 inches. The site also will offer a full line of accessories, services and repairs.
“This is a very exciting initiative for TMK Ipscp,” said Piotr Galitzine, Chairman of TMK Ipsco. “This new facility will keep our company at the forefront of technology, expand our local presence, and enable us to better serve our very important Canadian oil and gas customers.”
TMK Ipscp has been operating in Canada since 2010, with a sales office located in Calgary, devoted to sales of oil country tubular goods (OCTG). The new TMK Ipsco facility will help the company to meet higher demand for proven premium connections, a market that is expected to grow as Canadian industry continues to shift toward unconventional gas and oil resources. The new Edmonton location, which is served by rail, is ideally situated in close proximity to unconventional resources like the Horn River, Montney and Duvernay Shales, and will enable the company to provide quicker response times on drilling and completion tools.
“This new facility is a testament to our company’s innovation, growth, and commitment to our customers,” said Vicki Avril, the company’s President and CEO. “We will be bringing to Canada high-tech products, improved, localized services and new jobs.”
TMK Ipsco’s facility is expected to begin operating in late 2012.
TMK Ipsco operates in North America as a division of TMK, a global market leader in energy pipe production that operates 24 production facilities around the world. TMK product offerings include a wide range of seamless and welded energy tubular products including oil & gas drill pipe, well casing and tubing, line pipe, LD pipe, standard pipe, hollow structural sections and related services. TMK also manufactures premium connections for oil and natural gas drilling and production under the ULTRA™ Premium Connections and TMK Premium brand names.
