23 Nov 2009 14:02

Russian steel pipe output down 23.3% in 10 mths

MOSCOW. Nov 23 (Interfax) - Russia reduced steel pipe production 23.3% year-on-year in January-October to 5.313 million tonnes, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said.

Production fell 0.7% in October compared with September to 630,891 tonnes.

Steel pipe production at Russian enterprises in Jan-October 2009 ('000 tonnes):

Company	Oct 2009	10 mths 2009	10 mths 2008	Oct/Sept 2009, %	Jan-Oct 2009/Jan-Oct 2008, %
Total	630,891	5 313,067	6 931,325	99,3	76,7
Inc.:
Seamless	188,536	1 714,455	2 480,364	103,9	69,1
Electric welded	424,697	3 448,297	4 243,070	98,3	81,3
Casing pipes	65,969	615,380	818,578	118,1	75,2
Drilling pipes	1,331	18,523	39,435	61,3	47
Oil well tubing	36,688	358,779	362,348	103,8	99
Of which:
Vyksa Metals Plant	120,992	1 185,723	1 216,392	84,2	97,5
Chelyabinsk Tube-Rolling Plant	42,353	467,361	763,396	90,7	61,2
Volzhsky Pipe Mill	78,256	464,646	698,699	121,6	66,5
Sinara Pipe Mill	42,957	413,350	492,473	101,7	83,9
Taganrog Metals Plant	53,223	469,188	549,166	91	85,4
Seversky Pipe Mill	50,368	449,302	537,277	99,8	83,6
Almetyevsk Pipe Mill	13,567	123,727	128,221	85,6	96,5
Uraltrubprom	13,528	107,146	178,542	139,5	60
Volgograd Pipe Mill	3,983	23,572	55,670	122,5	42,3
Bor Pipe Mill	8,492	71,992	72,425	95	99,4
Trubostal	5,568	37,312	63,322	102,2	58,9