Stroytransgaz: New Contract in Finland
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Stroytransgaz has begun capital renovations of a gas pipeline in Finland – the Pajari-Valkeala – a 217-kilometer pipeline whose diameter is 28 inches. The Finnish company Gasum Oy is customer for the project.
In accordance with the contract concluded in June 2008 with the project’s general contractor, Finnish company UIT Rakennus Oy, Stroytransgaz will disassemble the old section and build a new section of the gas pipeline, assemble two valve units, four junction points, a receiver-launching station for cleaning mechanisms, and a facility for drying and releasing an intelligent pig. The term for construction is 12 months.
Stroytransgaz has already disengaged the section of the Pajari-Valkeala that is to be replaced. It has nearly completed mobilizing equipment and personnel to accept the pipe that the customer will deliver.
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For more than ten years, Stroytransgaz has successfully carried out projects for construction of gas transmission pipelines in Finland. The application of proprietary quality management systems has enabled Stroytransgaz to win the respect of Finnish company-customers Neste, Gasum, Yit Yhtyma, and UIT Rakennus Oy.
During 1996 and 1997 Stroytransgaz built a parallel branch of the Imatra-Lappienranta, a 48-kilometer pipeline of 36 inches in diameter. Company specialists used welding spread method of pipe welding, thereby achieving rapid pace in welding-assembly work. Thanks to this technology, the customer was able to obtain Russian gas a month earlier than originally scheduled.
During 2000 and 2001, in a consortium with Spetsstroymontazh, Stroytransgaz implemented a project to build the 24-kilometers Lappienranta-Luumiaki pipeline; it has a diameter of 36 inches.
In 2006 Stroytransgaz built the Kjumiyoky-Nijnikosky parallel gas pipeline. That facility runs 45 kilometers and has a diameter of 28 inches. Stroytransgaz accepted and transported pipe, performed welding and assembly work, completed crossings of natural and man-made barriers, prefabricated and tied in valve stations, conducted hydrotesting and drying of the pipeline to –20° C , and calibrated the pipe with an intelligent pig.
