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Sumitomo Metals receives
award as 2007 Supplier of the Year
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Supplier of the Year from Shell Exploration
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Sumitomo Metals receives award as 2007 Supplier
of the Year from Shell Exploration and Production
Asia Pacific
Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd (Sumitomo Metals)
together with Sumitomo Corporation have received
the Supplier of the Year in 2007 award from
Shell Exploration and Production Asia Pacific
(Shell EPA).
Shell EPA gives this award every year to a
few suppliers who are selected by a survey among
their staff/engineers.
For 2007, Sumitomo Metals was awarded as one
of the Suppliers of the Year in recognition
for its overall performance with the Shell EPA
organization particularly in relation to the
global relationship with Shell.
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The other awards are
given to companies in Mud Logging, Professional
Manpower Services, and Drilling Fluid suppliers.
Sumitomo Metals was the only OTCG supplier to
receive an award this year.
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Sumitomo Metals Wins
New Long Term Contract with Statoil
Sumitomo Metal
Industries Ltd (Sumitomo Metals) has been
awarded an exclusive five year Oil Country
Tubular Goods (OCTG) supply contract by the
Norwegian energy company Statoil ASA (Statoil).
Under the contract, Sumitomo Metals will supply
high-end and super high-end seamless OCTG,
one of the mainstay products of Sumitomo Metals.
The contract also calls for the supply of
a new item, super duplex, annual demand for
which is expected to be in the range of 500-1,000
tons.
Statoil is
Scandinavia's leading energy company. Headquartered
in Norway, it has a presence in more than
30 countries. Statoil primarily uses "VAM"
brand premium connection for its OCTGs. The
company is expanding its operations from the
Norwegian Continental Shelf to international
markets, and making it increasingly important
for Sumitomo Metals to supply reliable OCTG
products.
Sumitomo Metals
have been supplying OCTGs and line pipes (principally
high-end products) to Statoil since the late
1980's, with total supply to date of approximately
1.2 million tons. As the current long- term
contract will expire in March, 2008, a new
tender (for 2008-2013) was announced at the
end of 2006. Based on a Sumitomo's 20-year
track record, Statoil acknowledged their reliable
performance, and edge in products quality,
especially in high grade material and premium
connections. Consequently, Sumitomo Metals
were deemed to be the best supplier, and were
awarded another contract.
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Sumitomo Metals is commended by BP for
its safety management in the provision of super
duplex stainless steel and carbon steel seamless line
pipes for BP’s North Sea project.
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| Rhum
Field Development project Safety Management
Award |
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Sumitomo Metals
was commended by BP—with whom we have
a long-term contract for the supply of steel
tubes and pipes—for our safety management
performance (from manufacturing to shipment)
in the provision of high-alloy steel and carbon
steel seamless line pipes for BP’s North
Sea (Rhum Field Development) project, and we
received their Safety Management Award at Wakayama
Steel Works on April 6.
The project involves
the construction of submarine pipelines for
carrying gas produced in the North Sea over
a distance of 45km. The pipelines comprise super
duplex stainless steel pipes (DP3W, 895 metric
tons) and carbon steel pipes(X65, 2,061 metric
tons) manufactured at the Wakayama Steel Works.
It Should be noted
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that this is the largest single
order that we have ever received for heavy wall
(27mm) super duplex stainless pipes with high
corrosion resistance.
The pipelines have
already been laid and gas production started last
December. BP is one of the world’s major
oil companies and it places a special emphasis
on HSE (Health, Safety, and Environment) management.
Accordingly, as an important requirement for awarding
long-term contracts, it demands that steel pipe
suppliers perform meticulous HSE management.
We thoroughly implement
safety management in the course of manufacturing
to ensure the stable supply of high-quality steel
tubes and pipes.
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Order Received for Steam Generator Tubes
for Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant in China
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Metal Industries, Ltd. and Sumitomo Corporation
received its first order from China (amounting
to 1 billion yen) to supply steam generator
tubes for the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant
in China.
The steam generator tubes will be supplied
to and assembled by a Chinese company, Shanghai
Boiler Works, Ltd. In response to recent
power shortages, China plans to build 28
new nuclear power plants (27 million KW)
by 2020 and the demand for steam generator
tubes translates into good prospects in
a market estimated to be worth some 40 billion
yen. This first entry into the order books
represents an extremely important step regarding
future opportunities.
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Dr. Ueda Wins NACE Award
Dr. Ueda,
General Manager of Quality Control and
Technical Service Department of our company,
is the recipient for the 2006 Frank Newman
Speller Award conferred by NACE International.
This award recognizes the significant
contributions Dr. Ueda has made to corrosion
engineering.
Because
only one scientist receives the honor
each year, this is considered by corrosion
scientists to be the world’s most
prestigious award. Dr. Ueda has worked
with us over the years to develop the
materials for pipes and tubes with the
result that our high-end seamless pipes,
used mainly in the production of oil/natural
gas and transportation, are seen as
being among the best in the world. He
has also contributed to the technological
innovation within the industry in relation
to the development of oil and natural
gas resources.
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| Dr.
Ueda is the recipient for the 2006
Frank Newman Speller Award |
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producing oil or natural gas, the constituents
of steel need to be controlled to avoid steel
pipe corrosion caused by such factors as the
temperature inside a well and the concentration
of CO2 and H2S. The selected constituents
have generally been tested under certain conditions
in order to confirm whether they are applicable
or not. Dr. Ueda, however, examined the proportion
of auxiliary materials such as Cr, Ni and
Mo to be alloyed in his study of spontaneous
passivity. Depending on the proportion, new
films are developed to shield from corrosion
occurred and prevent it from advancing further.
His study greatly contributed to the development
of Sumitomo's new SM Series, the high-corrosion
resistance oil country tubular goods (OCTG). |
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He
is only the second Japanese to have received
the award since it was established in 1971.
On March
15, the award ceremony was held during the
NACE International academic conference in
San Diego, the United States (Corrosion
2006) with the attendance of 4,500 scientists
and Dr. Ueda gave a commemorative lecture.
He introduced our company’s history
of technological development based on his
study of spontaneous passivity whereby auxiliary
materials produce a protective film that
reacts with base metal. The new SM Series
consisting of Cr bearing steel pipes, stainless
steel pipes, and Ni-based alloy pipes is
also one of the product lines he played
a leading role in developing. The advanced
technology of the product line has greatly
reduced the complexity of developing oil/gas
wells and significantly contributed to the
growth in global demand for energy. The
award Dr. Ueda has received represents the
world's acknowledgment of the innovations
incorporated into our products as well as
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Developed High Strength Sour Service SM-125S
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Sumitomo
Metals, as a world-leading company in the
OCTG industry has developed a new high strength,
low alloy, sour service material, SM-125S,
through joint R&D programs with Statoil
ASA & bp as well as our own program.
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Micro
Structure
New Steel |
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material is intended for casing applications
under mild sour conditions, and has a higher
YS min. 125 ksi (862 MPa) than the one for
conventional C110 min. 110 ksi (758 MPa),
previously known as the highest strength grade
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material is expected to spread through out
this industry, which is looking for higher
strength anti-corrosion OCTG for its development
of gas wells or deep wells for the foreseeable
future. This new development was presented
at EuroCorr2004 a co-written paper by bp
and Statoil ASA in September 2004.
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VAM® TOP CLEANWELL® Success on
Trial Run for Norsk Hydro
Sumitomo
Metals’ dope-free VAM® TOP CLEANWELL®
9-5/8” 53.5# P110 was run on March
22nd for Norsk Hydro. 88 pipes or 1100m
of the string were successfully set up
and put in the well without any rejection
and trouble.
VAM®
TOP CLEANWELL® is a dope-free solution
that features NO re-doping in “rig
preparation” process and is totally
environmentally-friendly with NO discharge
into environment. The anti-corrosion and
lubricating coating on VAM® TOP connection
is applied in the threading line of Sumitomo
Metals under its severe quality control.
The trial was held on the “Oseberg
South” platform which is 133km offshore
from Bergen, Norway. In accordance with
Norwegian regulations, this operation
was carried out following a fully automatic
make-up procedure and took approximately
7 hours to run 1100m of the string. Engineers
from Norsk Hydro and Sumitomo Metals witnessed
this operation and were fully satisfied.
Based on this success, Norsk Hydro will
in near future plan to perform a similar
test for 7” L80-13CR pipe in order
to evaluate adapting this product to comply
with their zero discharge target for all
casing and tubing strings.
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VAM®
TOP CLEANWELL® was developed to comply
with customer’s requirements that
need “Easy Rig Preparation”
and “Environment Friendliness”.
Sumitomo Metals promotes VAM® TOP CLEANWELL®
as a next generation product that does not
require any thread compounds.
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