Liberty Steel has secured major contracts to produce pipe for use in major export projects, the company tells Kallanish.

The company’s Hartlepool facility has won orders to build more than 470 kilometres of pipe for use in offshore and onshore energy infrastructure projects in the United States and Caspian Sea regions. The orders will be processed at Liberty’s Longitudinally Submerged Arc Welded (LSAW) line pipe mill. Production has already begun, the company says, and will continue for the next 12 months. This is providing the strongest backlog of orders that the business has seen in over 12 Years, Liberty says.

The steelmaker has neither named the clients nor disclosed the order value. However, one of the orders is the largest since Liberty acquired the business in 2017, it says. The orders are for carbon steel line pipe, widely used to carry oil and gas.

“We have been tracking some of these projects for many years and it is extremely pleasing that our determination and persistence have paid off.  These orders provide a strong foundation on which our business can continue to build,” says Martyn Curnow, commercial director at Liberty Steel Hartlepool.