Man to bid for Iran gas pipeline

Mumbai-based Man Industries, a manufacturer of SAW pipes and coating systems for high pressure oil and gas applications, will bid for the supply of gas pipes for the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline. The company will bid for projects undertaken in India.

Having commissioned its new pipe and coating complex at Anjar in Kutch on Saturday last, the company says it is now in a position to meet additional demands for saw pipes and will thus bid for projects under the proposed gas pipeline between Iran and India.

Bidding process for the project is expected to start by the end of 2006.

"With the inauguration of the Anjar unit, the company will expand its cumulative production capacity of saw pipes to 2000 kilometres per annum (KMPA).

"The company will now able to handle big projects line Iran's gas pipe line project," R C Mansukhani, chairman, Man Industries, said.

Although the project is being finalised, the pipeline is expected to either pass through Kutch or Punjab in India.

The new complex of Man Industries at Anjar has various comprehensive facilities for manufacturing line pipes which has enhanced the cumulative production capacity of the industry.

"The spiral pipe production line in the complex is the first facility in the country capable of producing the API grade line pipe with a maximum random length of 18 meters. I believe that will help to compete with other majors in the country," said Mansukhani.

"Man Industries has already received approvals from global majors like Saudi Aramco, Shell, Qatar Petroleum and other companies in the Middle East," he added.

Man Industries is looking at a quantum growth in turnover this year, over Rs 500 crore in the last financila year, with the newly plant at Anjar.