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Qualification and Customers Approval

Due to the expansion of export sales TMK management decided to apply for qualification as an official supplier to our foreign customers to which end the Quality Directorate was created.

Qualification – the process resulting in the inclusion of OAO TMK and/or TMK's mills on the list of qualified suppliers of a company.

Qualification is held in several stages:

• Completing the questionnaire of a company (a pipe products consumer);
• Performance of pre-qualification audits by the company’s specialists;
• Eentry onto the list of qualified suppliers.

TMK is on the list of qualified suppliers of the following companies:

1. KO С (Kuwait) – Volzhsky Pipe Plant for line and casing pipes; Taganrog Metallurgical Works for line pipes
2. ARAMCO (Saudi Arabia) – Volzhsky Pipe Plant for line and casing pipes
3. SHELL – Volzhsky Pipe Plant for OCTG (oil country tubular goods: casing, drill pipes, tubing) (grades H40, J55, К 55, N80, L80)
4. MAERSK OIL – Volzhsky Pipe Plant for casing pipes
5. WORLEY PARSONS (Kazakhstan) - all plants API pipes
6. KARACHAGANAK (Kazakhstan) - all plants API pipes
7. KNPC (Kuwait) – Volzhsky Pipe Plant for line pipes
8. Agip KCO – all plants API pipes
9. NIOC (Iran) - Volzhsky Pipe Plant for casing and tubing
10. NNPC (Nigeria) - line pipes
11. BHARAT (India) - Volzhsky Pipe Plant , Sinarsky Pipe Plant boiler pipes
12. PDVSA (Venezuela) – Volzhsky Pipe Plant , Sinarsky Pipe Plant , Taganrog Metallurgical Works API pipes