OMK Presents Import Substitution Product for Off-Shore Well Construction at St. Petersburg International Gas Forum
- developed in-house by OMK
- no similar equipment available domestically
- designed for offshore well construction, including construction in the Arctic
- may be installed to define the direction of offshore wells in unstable bedrock
Conductor casing with welded threaded connector:
At the St. Petersburg International Gas Forum, the United Metallurgical Company presented a 762-mm casing conductor with a weld-on threaded connector at the PAO Gazprom combined import-substitution booth.
This OMK product is designed for offshore well construction, including construction in the Arctic. The threaded connection is designed for resistance to axial impact loads and is capable of assuring that a conductor string is driven into the seabed from a drill rig. The connection developed by OMK is the only one of its kind available domestically while its performance is equivalent to the best imported alternatives. An added advantage of the connection is that the Company has set up the entire manufacturing sequence at a single site at OMK's Vyksa facility in the Nizhniy Novgorod Region.
«Conductor casing is an in-house development by the team at the OMK engineering and technology center. These tubulars can be used to define the direction of offshore wells in unstable rock and driven into the seabed to prevent wellbore wall slides and cave-ins. Using our product, customers will be able to build wells under the most difficult and harsh weather conditions in the Arctic», noted OMK Energy Business Unit CEO Vadim Sakharniuk.
OMK also presented an in-house brand of premium threaded connections at the St. Petersburg International Gas Forum. It includes a start-studded line of 5 threaded connections named OMK REGUL, OMK ALPHA, OMK POLAR, OMK VEGA, and OMK SIRIUS. They are meant for the construction of oil and gas wells of complex designs and for operation under extreme loads, including operation at offshore oil and gas fields.
