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Vallourec Wins BAPETCO Contract

Monday, September 25, 2017

Vallourecentered into a contract with Badr El Din Petroleum Company (BAPETCO), the JV between Shell and EGPC. The contract concerns the supply of tubular solutions for 60 to 70 gas wells in Egypt’s Western Desert.

Most of the seamless carbon steel tubes will be produced by Tianda, the new plant purchased by the Vallourec Group in 2016 in Chuzhou, China, while the premium VAM TOP® threading will be made at Vallourec’s Chinese threading plant in Changzhou.

According to Didier Hornet, SVP of Vallourec’s Development and Innovation Department “Our local presence, through Vallourec’s Egyptian office, has in recent years been key to understanding our customers’ expectations. We are proud to have won this new contract in a market as competitive as Egypt.”


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