ShawCor to provide coating services for South Stream

ShawCor Ltd. has announced that its pipe coating division, Bedero Shaw, has received a contract with a value of approximately US$ 50 million from EUROPIPE GmbH for the concrete weight coating of Line 1 of the South Stream offshore pipeline.

The South Stream offshore pipeline is comprised of four pipelines that will cross the Black Sea and transport gas from Russia to Bulgaria and on to Central and Southern Europe. The contract will be executed at the Bredero Shaw pipe coating facility in Leith, Scotland.

This contract involves coating approximately 148 km of 32 in. pipe with concrete weight coating. Coating is expected to commence during the second half of 2014 and be completed in 2015.

ShawCor Ltd is an energy services company specialising in products and services for the pipeline and pipe services and the petrochemical and industrial segments for the oil and gas industry. The Company operates through eight divisions with over 75 manufacturing and service facilities located around the world.

Bredero Shaw, ShawCor's largest division, is the global leader in pipe coating solutions and employs over 4000 permanent and contract personnel located at offices and facilities in fifteen countries. The division provides specialised coating systems and related services for corrosion protection, insulation and weight coating applications on land and marine pipelines including highly engineered corrosion and insulation systems for deepwater applications.

Adapted from press release by Hannah Priestley-Eaton

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