NKK supplies World's first high‐nickel‐clad UOE pipe

NKK, together with the Mitsubishi Corporation, has begun production on a pipe order won from Snamprogetti, the Italian construction and engineering company currently developing the second phase of the oil and gas pipeline across India. The order is the world's first for high‐nickel‐clad pipe produced by the UOE process. NKK is supplying 2,900 tons of double layered pipe — carbon steel (APL 5L x 65) on the outside, and NKK‐developed NK‐NIC 42 on the inside (42% nickel, 22% chromium, 3% molybdenum). The pipe will be used as submarine pipeline in the develpment of India's South Bessein gas field, off the West Coast, near Bombay.