OREANDA-NEWS. January 29, 2010. The world leading manufacturer of seamless stainless steel tubes Centravis was successfully certified and joined to the rank of the officially approved suppliers of one of the leaders in Oil and Gas sector, the company Saudi Aramco.

The audit of production area, of CENTRAVIS PRODUCTION UKRAINE plant (Dnepropenrovsk region, Nikopol), was conducted in the period 7 — 8 October, 2009. The representatives of the Aramco Overseas Co. visited the cold shop and the hot shop of the plant, reviewed in detail the production technology, new equipment, environmental and social regulations and product quality management system.

On December 29, 2009 according to the Internal Standards of Quality Management System and requirements to the production process technology of the companies Saudi Aramco Co. and Aramco Overseas Co. as also of the International Quality Auditing System, Centravis was granted the status of the official supplier of Saudi Aramco. This status ensures the possibility to supply seamless stainless steel tubes with the outside diameter up to 114 mm and U-tubes with the outside diameter up to 38 mm:

Code 6000000028 — heat-exchanger tubing

Code 6000000068 — heat-exchanger tubing with diameters range up to 114 mm

Yuriy Atanasov, General Manager of Centravis Holding, made the following comments as for certification for Aramco:” It is a great honor for us to be in the rank of officially approved suppliers of the biggest company in Oil and Gas sector in Middle East. For the next future we plan to strengthen our cooperation by extending the certified product assortment up to the diameter 219 mm.

Successful auditing of Aramco Overseas Co is another positive result in the company business development and propriety confirmation of the strategy we started to realize in 2007. This strategy includes large-scale investments into the new equipment, mastering of the new assortment of tubes & pipes, focus on project business development, expansion of distribution geography, organization of the long-term partnership relations with the customers”.

Saudi Aramco — is the state-owned national oil company of Saudi Arabia. It is the largest oil corporation in the world with the largest proven crude oil reserves and production.

According to Saudi Aramco, its production in 2008 neared 8.9 million barrels per day that is 3.2 billion barrels per year. Average gas output per day — 8.3 billion m3, annually — 3.0 trillion m3.

Personnel capacity — 180 000 employees

International Holding Centravis was founded in 2007.

Centravis product portfolio includes more than 1000 standard sizes of tubes & pipes of more than 100 types of corrosion-resistant and heat resistant steel grades in 7 segments: general tubes & pipes, boiler tubes & pipes, heat-exchanger tubing, instrumentation tubing, furnace tubing, hollow bars and Ni-alloys. Products are used in chemical and petrochemical industries, nuclear and thermal power engineering, non-ferrous metallurgy, machine and shipbuilding, food industry.

Centravis product quality is confirmed by international certificate EN ISO 9001-2000. Products are turned out according to American standards ASTM, German DIN, French NF, Italian UNI, Russian GOST and TU.

Among the customers of Centravis are: Exxon, BASF, GEA, Belleli, Bayer, KOCH Industries, Lukoil, Gazprom, “Atomstrojeksport”, “ZiO-Podolsk”, SS “Atomenergomash”, “Krasnyy Kotel`shik”, etc.

Total production in 2008 has made 16 580 т, sales volume of holding 257 million USD.