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Mexico,Turkey,United States : BORUSAN wins its first contract in MEXICO for steel pipe supply
Publish Date : 23-May-2016
Leading Turkish pipe manufacturer Borusan Mannesmann has made an announcement on its receipt of a new contract to provide steel pipes to the Tuxpan-Tula gas pipeline project in Mexico.
As part of the newly won deal, Borusan will supply of 36-inch diameter steel pipes of 24.5 meters and 12 meters length for the Mexican pipeline project.
The company will use its Gemlik spiral pipe manufacturing plant between July and August 2016 for the production of these pipes under the USD33 million worth of contract, the maiden deal for the firm in Mexico.
Borusan has decided to start the pipe deliveries involving the Mexican port of Tuxpan from July.
The company, with its maiden deal, is buoyant over the prospects of its future growth in the Mexican and aims to get a share in the spiral pipes market segment in the upcoming days.
The project, planned by state power company CFE, is slated to be finished in 2017.
Under this ambitious venture, there will be design, development, construction and operation of a 36-inch natural gas pipeline. The 263km pipeline between Tuxpan in the Veracruz State and Tula in the Hidalgo State will entail an investment of USD500 million.
The pipeline, with a capacity of 886Mf3/d (25M3/d), will carry natural gas, which will be procured from the US via a future South Texas-Tuxpan maritime pipeline, to the Mexican States of Veracruz, Puebla and Hidalgo to be connected to the national pipeline network.
Announcement on Jacobs receipt of a contract for the detailed engineering of facilities connected with the Tuxpan-Tula Pipeline Project in Mexico was made in late last month.
Jacobs has been deployed as the subcontractor for pipeline facilities. As part of this deal, the company will deliver engineering, procurement and field engineering support to set up a compressor station, a meter station and associated pipeline appurtenances all along the 36-inch pipeline.
TransCanada has been appointed as the builder, owner and operator of the pipeline project, backed by a 25-year natural gas transportation service contract with the Mexican state-run power utility Comisin Federal de Electricidad (CFE).
The prime contractor for the pipeline project is Bonatti S.p.A.
