Tata Steel has been awarded a major contract worth more than £100 million to provide pipe for the Discovery Producer Services LLC (Discovery) gas pipeline in Keathley Canyon, Gulf of Mexico. Discovery is a 60:40 joint venture between Williams Partners LP and DCP Midstream Partners LP.
The company will supply Discovery’s Keathley Canyon ConnectorTM with 214 miles (345km) of 20-inch diameter submerged arc welded linepipe, weighing more than 110,000 metric tonnes. The pipe will be manufactured at Tata Steel’s 42-inch mill in Hartlepool, England. Delivery is scheduled for the second half of this year.
The new contract comes soon after the company announced it had secured an order to supply 48,000 tonnes of steel pipe for an oil pipeline for the Lucius Development Project also in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Keathley Canyon ConnectorTM gas pipe will have a gathering capacity of over 400 million cubic feet, ga