The Official Publication of the National Association of Steel Pipe Distributors, Inc. • 3rd Issue 2008
The NASPD 2008 Fall Conference
in Historic Boston
National Association of
Steel Pipe Distributors, Inc.
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Victoria, TX 77904
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President’s Message
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS
2008 Events
2008 Fall Conference
October 9-11, 2008
The Fairmont Copley Plaza
Boston, MA
Steel Pipe Basic Education Course
October 27th - 28th
Houston Post Oak Hilton
Houston, TX
2009 Events
2009 Annual Convention
March 12-14, 2009
Beverly Wilshire
Beverly Hills, CA
2009 Summer Conference
May 28-30, 2009
Four Seasons Resort
Jackson Hole, WY
In writing this article I reference back to our
Pipeline Issue from the Fall of 2004 where
the President, at that time, Robert Griggs
said “Well it's been a crazy year with steel
prices at record highs and availability of
some items getting tricky”. This was four
years ago and isn't it funny how it fits
today's scenario perfectly?
One thing that has changed tremendously
since 2004 is our organization, look how
we have grown in numbers and strength.
Our staff has continued to exceed all of our
expectations, the meetings have continued
to add value to our business operations and
the membership has grown and benefitted
immensely.
This fall in Boston will be my last official
meeting as President and I cannot express
enough how honored I have felt in this
position. With continued involvement
and dedication of so many great members
Dianne Burger,
NASPD
President
and staff the future for our organization
continues to look very bright.
P.S. Be sure to get your employees, new and
old, registered for the Basic Education
Course, it's the best bargain the NASPD has
to offer!
2009 Fall Conference
October 1-3. 2009
InterContinental Chicago
Chicago, IL
2010 Events
2010 Annual Convention
February/March
City/State TBA
2010 Summer Conference
June
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2010 Fall Conference
September/October
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Dispatches
Contributed by NASPD Members
Northwest Pipe Company
Announces Houston
Expansion
VANCOUVER, WA -- Northwest Pipe
Company (NASDAQ: NWPX) announced
plans to construct a new tubular products
pipe manufacturing facility in the
Houston, Texas area. The Company is
finalizing site location and permitting
issues and expects to begin construction
this summer. The Company expects the
new facility to begin operations by April
2009. The new facility will focus on
producing casing pipe for the Oil Country
Tubular Goods ("OCTG") market.
"Our energy pipe business has grown
substantially over the last few years," said
Brian W. Dunham, CEO and president of
Northwest Pipe Company. "We see
additional opportunities, particularly in this
region of the country. This expansion will
enable us to participate in the market for
pipe used in gas exploration, which will
complement our existing position in pipe
used for gas gathering and transmission."
While this will be a new facility, the
Company already has the necessary
equipment located in Portland, Oregon.
"We will redeploy a complete and recently
modernized production line to address this
(continued on pg. 4 - DISPATCHES)
From the Executive Director
Robert Griggs
Dennis Hayden
Ken Hayes
Cliff Hobbs
Bobby Kanz
Don Karchmer
David Keiser
Tim Lally
Ray Schmidt
Greg Semmel
Nelson Smith
Wesley Solansky
Cathy Streff
Todd Womble
Pete Knowles
Our next Basic Education Course is
schedule in Houston October 27th and 28th.
Be sure to register now on our website at
www.naspd.com .
TMK, one of the world’s largest oil and gas
pipe producers, announced in June that it
completed the acquisition of the US
companies and assets of IPSCO Tubular’s
business from SSAB Svenkst Stal AB
under a back-to-back transaction with
Evraz S.A. (Evraz).
I am very excited about our Fall Conference
in Boston. The history in Boston gives one
such a sense of what America was founded
on, and to go during an election year, only
adds to the excitement.
Fred and Ted Kahn's sister, Dr. Barbra
Kahn, has graciously invited us to have our
Friday dinner at the private Harvard
University Faculty Club. We will start our
evening with a brief walking tour of the
legendary campus.
TMK acquired 100% of share capital in
IPSCO Tubulars Inc. and 51% of share
capital in NS Group Inc. for approximately
1.25 billion USD. TMK and Evraz have
also entered into a call/put option for the
remaining 49% of NS Group Inc. which
may be exercised for approximately $0.5
billion subject to certain adjustments.
If you haven't been to Boston it really is
livingAmerican history and a place that will
inspire a true appreciation for how our
nation came to be. I encourage everyone to
read the book or watch the HBO miniseries
John Adams before going to Boston. Our
program will include Keith Busse and Joe
Alvarado with industry updates, an
insightful discussion on trade led by Mike
Evans and trade attorney Matt Nolan, and
an inside look at on of the worlds largest
municipal projects "The Big Dig".
The purchase of IPSCO Tubular’s US
assets is an essential part of TMK’s strategy
to expand the company’s global presence
and increase offer of high-tech, premiumclass, tubular goods for the oil and gas
industry.
TMK acquired ten production sites in seven
States with combined pipe production
capacity over one million tonnes, including
about 300 thousand tonnes of seamless
pipes and in-house steelmaking capacity of
450 thousand tonnes of billets per year. In
addition to pipe rolling and steelmaking
Be sure to thank to Fred Kahn and Mike
Evans for going above and beyond the call
of duty in putting together a memorable
program.
Jim Barnes
Charles Boatright
Dianne Burger
Bill Carleton, Jr.
Earle Cohen
Rusty Fisher
Steve Fowler
Andrew Grebe
John McClure
Jack McCarthy
Catherine McIntyre
John Mocker
Andy Pearl
Yves Pognonec
Jim Rollandi
Jason Rubenstein
market. Its capabilities are 2 inches to 7
inches in diameter with wall thicknesses up
to .375 inches," said Dunham. "We see this
as an excellent opportunity to put idled
capacity back into production, and to do so
in the heart of the market we expect to
serve. We believe the combination of our
equipment, location, the people we already
have in place in Houston and the
distribution system we already have set up
for our other products will make us a very
efficient and effective producer.”
TMK Completes
Transaction to Acquire
IPSCO U.S. Assets
by Susannah Feux Porr
NASPD Executive Director
Our Training Manual has been completely
renovated and renamed The Fundamentals
of Steel Pipe. Our sincerest thanks go out to
Bill Buckland for his leadership and hard
work, to Don Bohach and Gerald Merfish
for always giving their time and input on the
toughest questions and to all those who
contributed their time and expertise:
(continued from pg. 3 - DISPATCHES)
(continued on pg. 7 - DISPATCHES)
PIPELINE STAFF and NASPD CONTACT INFORMATION
Executive Director/Publisher Susannah Feux Porr
Office Administrator Gail Belcik
Editor/Publishing Services/Advertising Sales Linda W. Key
NASPD MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICES:
NASPD Headquarters:
1501 E. Mockingbird Lane, Suite 307
Victoria, TX 77904
Phone: 361-574-7878; Fax: 832-201-9479
E-mail: info@naspd.com
Office hours: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm CST
Web site: http://www.naspd.com.
ADVERTISING IN PIPELINE:
Linda Key: phone 361-649-5562;
fax 866-381-6172;
email: lwk@key-assoc.com;
delivery address for advertising materials:
103 Garden Place, Victoria, TX 77904.
© 2008 National Association of Steel Pipe Distributors, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be
reproduced or utilized in any form, or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy or other recording,
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Association of Steel Pipe Distributors, Inc. (NASPD), a nonprofit organization representing the steel pipe and tubing
industry. The views expressed herein are the opinions of the authors, and do not necessarily represent the policies or
opinions of NASPD.
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Guest Article
By Scott Playfair
There are many ways to improve
productivity investing in technology,
utilizing time management techniques,
outsourcing purely administrative tasks
even proper document control. But the one
thing that all organizations have in common
are people and the processes that they
perform.
Frequently, issues affect those people and
processes resulting in less than optimum
productivity. Some of the factors that
contribute to substandard productivity are
lack of clearly defined job responsibilities,
unclear work flow, no clear mission guiding
employee focus, redundant or out of control
processes, and lack of teamwork. Today's
global business leaders depend on
significant productivity increases to
maximize the bottom line. Consequently,
employees are asked to do more each day
with less, many times resulting in
inefficiencies and loss of productivity.
Fortunately, employee productivity
Amazing Productivity Increase
with No Additional Resources
increases can be achieved
by knowing more
about how your
employees
spend their time
performing the
processes that
they own.
Operations of all
types of companies from
manufacturers to service providers
to distribution are comprised of a series of
business processes. Using proven methods,
obtaining employee ownership of those
processes is simple - by working with the
process owners, map out their processes and
have them identify problems and
opportunities for improvement. By
streamlining and clarifying processes,
eliminating waste, and applying common
sense process improvement tools, an
organization can vastly improve their bottom
line.
One approach for team based process
improvement provides breakthrough results
by empowering employees to
understand their own
processes and to take the
initiative to identify those
opportunities that improve your
bottom line. They understand
how to not only identify the
projects that offer the most
substantial benefit/return, but also
how those projects can be efficiently
and economically implemented.
Implementation is most often the biggest
single challenge for the organization.
Clarifying and streamlining an
organization's processes, making straight
forward improvements, and allowing the
same resources do more, not only increases
productivity but also translates into
significantly improved morale. All of these
activities result in a better bottom line.
Consider this example: Recently, during a
review with a company who had completed
a significant process improvement but
before the project completion, the head of
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(continued from pg. 4 - DISPATCHES)
capacity, the acquired assets boast 450 thousand tonnes of annual
heat treatment capacity, about 750 thousand tonnes of threading
capacity and up to 240 thousand joints of Premium connection
capacity.
“We are very pleased with the acquisition of IPSCO Tubular’s US
assets that became TMK’s largest acquisition to date. The
consolidation of the new assets into TMK will considerably expand
the Company’s product mix with additional production and
finishing capacity of high-technology tubulars in the world’s largest
oil and gas pipe market”, said TMK Chairman, Dmitriy
Pumpyanskiy.
Founded in 2001, TMK is the largest pipe producer in Russia and
one of the three global market leaders. In 2007, TMK shipped over 3
million tonnes of pipes. TMK supplies to companies in more than 60
countries.
Marmon/Keystone announces expansions
Marmon/Keystone has announced
Pennsylvania, Ohio and California.
International Inc.
INVENTORY
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Stewart Lichtman, regional director, who will oversee the new
facility, said, “Expanding in Pottstown will facilitate our growth in
the region through increased and deeper inventory levels. With rail
service already in place, we can maximize our
inbound shipments of bulk products.” The
company plans to add additional plate
NASPD
processing equipment to service their
growing industrial base.
Marmon/Keystone also announced the recent
opening of a new depot to handle hot rolled
seamless mechanical tubing. The material is
available at the company’s present breakbulk facility in Bucyrus, Ohio. In addition to
housing large volumes of hot rolled seamless
tubing, the 150,000 sq. ft. building contains
multiple state-of-the-art Amada automated
CNC saws that can provide value added
services for cut-to-length orders.
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The original break-bulk facility was
established in 2005 as a receiving source for
incoming material from several mills. The
inventory is shipped to locations across the
country and has resulted in more efficient
service and reduced lead times.
(continued on pg. 8 - DISPATCHES)
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24800 Pitkin Road, Suite A • The Woodlands, TX 77386
Phone (281) 367-6608 •Fax (281) 367-9017
www.primepipe.com
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“The new HRS depot offers a tremendous
range of hot rolled mechanical seamless
tubing in one location,” said Ron Lenhart,
national marketing manager, “This provides
our twenty-six locations with greater
accessibility for large volume requirements,
yielding faster delivery to our customers.”
Finish
84’
operation expansions in
Bushwick-Koons Steel of Parker Ford, Pa., a division of Bushwick
Metals, Inc. has announced the leasing of a 120,000 sq. ft. facility in
the Pottstown Industrial Complex, Pottstown, Pa. A general line
steel service center, Bushwick-Koons specializes in wide flange
beams, pipe, tubing, and flat roll products. Value added services
include saw cutting, shearing, flame cutting, cambering, and
bending.
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Welcome
New Members
---SINCE 1980--Specializing in heavy wall Pipe &
Tubing cut to length. Prime X-Grade
heavy wall Line Pipe.
320 ft
3.500 x .875
APIX42
2500 ft
3.500 x .600
Structural
1700 ft
4.500 x .674
Structural
4000 ft
6.625 x .500
APIX65
3000 ft
6.625 x .611
A106C
2900 ft
10.75 x .625
Surplus
1500 ft
12.75 x .500
APIX52
850 ft
14.00 x .500
Structural
3000 ft
16.00 x .250
APIX65
5800 ft
16.00 x .250
#2 Used
1000 ft
16.00 x .500
A106B
520 ft
16.00 x .906
Structural
7100 ft
18.00 x .750
#1 Used
530 ft
24.00 x .375
APIX65
800 ft
24.00 x .688
Structural
(continued from pg.3 - DISPATCHES)
Please join NASPD in
welcoming our newest members.
Ready Pipe & Steel, LLC.
Ready Pipe & Steel, LLC is a Regular
Member. Products manufactured 4” - 132”
O.D. steel pipe, ASTM A-53B, A252-2,
API5LX, and A120. Product grade are
prime, reject, limited service and used of
domestic and imported origin.
Specifications handled are A106, A53, API
and AWWA. Sizes range from 4” - 132”.
Services offered include cut, weld, coat,
and roll with a specialty of structural grade
line pipe. Transportation is by common
carrier.
Otis Naff is the NASPD contact.
Ready Pipe & Steel, LLC.
Otis Naff
9766 19th St. #127.
Alta Loma CA91701 USA
909-483-5790
909-483-3140 (FAX)
otiewon@charter.net
1000 ft
24.00 x .750
Structural
5250 ft
24.00 x .857
APIX70
3248 ft
24.00 x .942
APIX70
SEBA Pipe Ltd.
4800 ft
24.00 x .955
APIX70
700 ft
24.00 x 1.00
Surplus
680 ft
26.00 x .750
APIX56
290 ft
26.00 x 1.50
Structural
3076 ft
42.00 x .630
APIX70
Seba Pipe Ltd. is an Associate member.
They offer prime grade products from
Turkey, Russia, China, Korea and South
Africa. Specs handled are ASTM A53,
A106, A500, A519, API 5L, and API 5CT.
OCTG specs handled are J-55, K-55, L-80
and P-110. Sizes ranges are casing to 133/4” and line pie to 24”. Specialties are
ERW and seamless (including heavy wall)
to 24” O. D. Seba also offers logistic
services.
The Omega Steel Group consists of
Omega Steel, Premium Pipe, and
Sligo Steel, the oldest Steel Company
west of the Mississippi, established in
1834.
F. Don Baysal is the NASPD contact.
SEBAPipe, Ltd.
9801 Westheimer Ste. 203
Houston TX 77042 USA
713-780-9116
sebaint@aol.com
1-800-325-9000
3460 Hollenberg Drive
St. Louis, MO 63044
(314) 209-0992
Fax (314) 209-0998
www.omegasteel.com
(continued from pg. 7 - DISPATCHES)
The third announced expansion is for
AZCO Steel, a division of Bushwick
Metals, Inc., with plans for opening a
distribution center in Pomona, California.
This facility is expected to be operational
by October 1.
David Maslin, director of sales &
marketing as AZCO Steel Co., will have
full responsibility for the new location.
“Our entry into California will give our
West Coast customers easier access to our
expanded inventory of 10,000 tons of hot
rolled carbon steel jumbo beams, angles,
and channels,” stated Maslin, “The facility
is well situated to receive rail shipments
from our main distribution point in
Blytheville,Arkansas.
AZCO Steel specializes in the distribution
of structural steel products in sizes and
grades ofA588 andA992.
Bushwick Metals and Marmon/Keystone
are Marmon Distribution Services
Companies and members of the Marmon
Vonnie
Grether
Personnel, Inc.
Vonnie Grether specializes in
supplying quality candidates for
the Steel Pipe and Tube Industry.
Recruiting emphasized
experience in the industry and
team building within a company.
• Administrative Staffing
• Accounting/Financial
• Sales Assistants
• Logistics
• Inside Sales
• Outside Sales
• Management
15470 Bay Tree Landing
Cypress, TX
713-463-0202 Office
713-963-0202 Cellular
vgrether@entouch.net
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Group, an international association of more
than 125 companies that operate
independently within diverse business
sectors.
Novolipetsk Steel to
Acquire John Maneely
Company
Moscow, Russia and Washington, DC Novolipetsk Steel, the leading Russian
steel producer, has signed a definitive
agreement to acquire U.S. steel pipe and
tube manufacturer John Maneely Company
(JMC) from a shareholder group including
global private equity firm The Carlyle
Group and the Zekelman family for
US$3.53 billion, acquiring the company on
a debt free, cash free basis. The transaction
is subject to customary regulatory
approvals and is expected to close in the
fourth quarter of 2008.
JMC is the largest independent tubular
manufacturer in North America, with the
most diverse product platform in the North
American pipe and tube industry. Through
its Wheatland and Atlas Tube divisions, it
maintains a #1 market position in North
America in each of its three core product
categories: Hollow Structural Sections
(HSS), standard pipe and electrical conduit.
During Carlyle's ownership, sales
increased by $800 million, a 36% percent
rise, from $2.2 billion in fiscal 2006 to an
estimated $3 billion in fiscal 2008.
Formed through the combination of John
Maneely Company and Atlas Tube in
December 2006 and headquartered in
Beachwood, Ohio, JMC operates eleven
plants in five U.S. states and one Canadian
province.
The acquisition of JMC fits with NLMK's
stated strategy of portfolio diversification
and downstream integration in the core
markets of the company. It strengthens
NLMK's position in North America and
provides an entry point into an important
and high margin end market.
NLMK, through its joint venture with
Duferco Group, has two manufacturing
facilities in the U.S., Duferco Farrell Corp.
and Sharon Coating, LLC. Duferco Farrell
is currently the key supplier of hot rolled
coils (HRC) to JMC and in particular the
largest supplier of HRC to JMC's
Wheatland division, to which it is closely
located.
Vladimir Lisin, Chairman of NLMK, said,
“We are delighted to have secured an entry
into the highly attractive U.S. pipe and tube
(continued on pg. 10 - DISPATCHES)
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KAYEM Pipe & Steel, Inc.
P.O. Box 130143, Dallas, TX 75313-0143
(214) 979-0042
(214) 979-0074 Fax
Over forty-five years of experience in servicing and supplying
the Oil & Gas Industry with Prime API OCTG and Line Pipe.
Our stock size ranges:
Casing: 4-1/2” thru 16” J-55 & Alloy Grade
Tubing: 1-1/4” thru 3-1/2” J-55 & Alloy Grade
Line Pipe: 2-3/4” thru 12-3/4” API 5L, X-42, & A-106
Please call or e-mail us for your tubular requirements.
d.kayem@kayempipe.com (Doug)
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ds.ashley@kayempipe.com (Donna Sue)
s.guckian@kayempipe.com (Sheila)
j.mustafaa@kayempipe.com (Joyce)
Houston Office: (281) 210-1090; Fax (281) 210-1091
f.lundberg@kayempipe.com (Fred) Cell (713) 253-0833
g.hillman@kayempipe.com (Garrett)
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Thankyou
Thank you
Sponsors
2008 Summer Conference
San Francisco - June 12-14
Platinum
Edgen Murray Corporation
North American INTERPIPE, Inc.
Gold
Kurt Orban Partners LLC**
Mill Man Steel, Inc.
North American INTERPIPE, Inc.
Northwest Pipe Company
Roscoe Moss Co.
ShawCor Pipe Protection LLC
Tenaris Global Services**
Challenger Pipe & Steel, LLC.
** Indicates two sponsorships on this same level
(continued from pg. 6 - PRODUCTIVITY)
the company was asked what the business
outlook for 2007 was forecast to be. He said
revenue / profit would be flat not because
more business wasn't available but because
he did not have corporate approval for
added resources and therefore couldn't
capitalize on opportunities to grow
organically.
Does this sound familiar? It seems that
many companies are in similar
circumstances these days, especially in the
booming Houston economy. It's a great
problem to have but what a frustrating
situation for leaders.
During the review, they talked about many
things, primarily focused on the
implementation of process improvement.
The conversation evolved to the subject of
how the business was doing since early
2007. The head of the company said that
profit was up 20% or more.
“That's great! So corporate did allocate the
added manpower and capital that you were
requesting?” He said that nothing had
changed in that regard and he had the same
people utilizing the same equipment. “If all
was the same with resources, how could
profit be up over 20%?” He said, “It was the
process improvement effort!” His company
was doing over 20% more with the same
Silver
Maurice Pincoffs Company, Inc.
Roscoe Moss Co.
TMK North America, Inc.
Bronze
BALL WINCH Pipeline Services**
CPW America Co.
Fortenberry Pipe & Supply Co.
Houston Steel & Pipe International
Independence Tube Corporation
Independent Pipe & Steel, Inc.
Interpipe, Inc.**
Kayem Pipe & Steel, Inc.
Liberty Companies**
Omega Steel Co.
SDB Trade International, LP
Tex-Tube Company
TMK North America, Inc.**
people and equipment. The only thing that
changed was the improvement of how they
performed their processes and their
committed ownership for the success of the
improvements.
They were not working any harder. They
were working smarter, resulting in
increased productivity, volume, efficiency,
morale, and profit.
This story really drives home that any
business's only “true” competitive
advantage is their people. The key to
capitalizing on that competitive advantage
is “team-based continuous process
improvement” with the support of a
committed management team. An elegantly
simple management philosophy that
always, always holds true.
Scott Playfair, President
P Squared Management Consulting
Web site: www.p2mc.com
NASPD
(continued from pg. 9 - DISPATCHES)
market and we are confident that the
incorporation of JMC's quality assets into
the NLMK group will prove to be a highly
attractive investment for NLMK's
shareholders as well as a beneficial
development for JMC's customers and
employees.”
Barry Zekelman, Chief Executive Officer
of JMC, said, “Our hard work these past
few years has demonstrated that Atlas and
Wheatland are formidable players in their
served markets. We are proud to become
part of the NLMK steel family and believe
the future is bright for the company and its
dedicated employees.”
Judges Trade Robes and
Gavels for Work Clothes,
Gloves and Grabbers At
‘Clean
'Clean & Green Judges Day'
In June, judges from the Harris County
Drug Treatment STAR (Success Through
Addiction Recovery) program got "down
and dirty" on a Saturday. They traded their
robes and gavels for work clothes, gloves
and "grabbers" and joined 100 volunteers,
in a two-hour successful clean-up on and
along the banks of Buffalo Bayou in
Houston.
(continued on pg. 15 - DISPATCHES)
12 Pipeline
Guest Article
By Curt Frisby
Despite record price spikes, long term
trends in the oil and gas exploration
industry bear close scrutiny by steel
marketing professionals. A balanced
marketing approach in today's
supercharged environment is essential,
having a sense of where the market has been
and its direction is paramount.
The modern drilling industry would be
unrecognizable if not for steel and tubular
goods. Virtually every
stage of energy
exploration evolves
from metal components
and tubing. Piping
platforms operate in
depths and reaches
unimagined by drilling
pioneers. Floating steel
drill ships ply waterways
to slake global thirst for
hydrocarbons,
accompanied by a
dizzying array of
products composed of
metal: liners, hangers,
packers, casing, drill
pipe, screens, tongs,
fishing tools, bits,
mandrels, couplings,
umbilicals, tongs, etc.
Pipelines traverse the
ocean bottom and earth
surface to bring oil and
gas to market.
The
relationship of alloying
steels to oil is more than
symbiotic, it is
axiomatic that as goes
demand for crude, so
goes steel.
Pricing volatility has
characterized
hydrocarbon extraction
markets since its
inception. The crashes of
1982 and 1986 are well
documented, suffice to
say even conservative
companies were savaged
by the downturn.
Compare the oil futures
benchmark of
$145/barrel for July 3,
2008, to the $10/barrel
OIL AND STEEL
cost of 1999. Predicting commodity energy
pricing is a fickle undertaking at best, how
should metal executives cope with price
swings endemic to the hydrocarbon extraction
industry? Perhaps the best plan is to emulate a
cardinal rule of stock market traders: it is not
how much you can make, rather, how much a
transaction can lose.
Estimates by the IEA of world oil usage are
targeted for the 3rd quarter at 85.4 million b/d,
down from 86.6 for the 4th quarter of 2007.
Current supply stands at 85.64 million b/d,
thus a positive balance of supply of .21
million. However, except for the last eight
months, global demand for years has been
exceeding supply by nearly a million barrels
a day. Economists are predicting a modest
3% annual global growth rate through 2013.
To match this rate, it is estimated it will take
an additional 28 million b/d of crude brought
to market. The global imbalance of supply to
demand points to an ongoing drilling trend, if
not a dramatic increase.
Whither, then, the benchmark price for
crude? And how to plan for stocking and
manufacturing levels in exploration-quality
alloy steels? As predictions are tricky
business, let us assume an absolute tanking
of the commodities
market. Today's price
hovering at between
$110 - $120/barrel is
halved, resulting in a
new benchmark issue
for crude at $55 - $60.
This would impact
some drilling
assumptions to be sure,
yet, consider that as
late as 2003, multibillion deepwater
drilling projects were
undertaken at $22 $25/barrel. Taking into
account increased
production costs as
high as 100 %, that still
leaves the $55.00
marker a reasonable
profit yardstick and
the $55 represents the
worst case scenario.
A recent undertaking in
the Permian Basin adds
credence to the low end
of $55.
Occidental
Petroleum plans to
separate carbon
dioxide from natural
gas obtained by
S a n r i d g e E n e r g y,
pumping the dioxides
then into its aging West
Te x a s f i e l d s t o
stimulate production.
The company stated the
$1.1 billion project
becomes practical with
crude oil prices in the
$50 range.
Geopolitical events are
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Photos From
2008 Conference
in San Francisco
June 12 - 14
Maurine & Danny Herbert and Cathy & George Streff
Cullen King & John Mortimer
Dan & Kathy O'Leary
David & April Schatte
Attendees enjoying the Welcoming Reception.
Mary Hermes & Herman Rosenberg
Ron Anderson and Christine Clary
Craig Lane and Peter Brebach
Dewey & Samantha Stout
Jane & Bruce Haupt
Randy & Claudia Wohlford and CiCi & Dolty Cheramie
Sharon & Chuck Woodward
Euegene Lyadov learning how to dance
Polynesian style.
Jim Owsley
Annye & Chuck King
Eric and Brian Doner
Richard & Elinor Gordon
Attendees network at the Hospitality Suite in the
historic Penthouse Suite.
Attendees enjoying the Tonga Room Dinner.
Fidel Nabor and CiCi Cheramie learning dancing techniques
during the entertainment at the Tonga.
Doug Highet, Philip Nicholas, and Susan Highet
enjoying the wine tour.
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(continued from pg. 10 - DISPATCHES)
certainly a part of the crude oil pricing
matrix, witness the rise of Chinese and
Indian economies and their combined use
of 23 million b/d. It would be arrogant to
assume third world countries accepting
less than their hard earned rise to top tier
status. Untapped new discoveries in the
near east and Brazil are encouraging,
however, geologists and industry veterans
point to the decline of global mega-fields,
such as Cantarell in Mexico. 70 % of world
hydrocarbons are controlled by state
entities, such as PDVSA (Venezuela) and
NIOC (Iran) can the world even include the
reserves of these countries as part of global
supply? And who is willing to bet on the
U.S. government sanctioning an
aggressive domestic drilling program?
Approximately 25 cubic yards of trash,
enough to fill a typical commercial
construction dumpster, was collected. This
clean-up effort was part of the Clean &
Green Port of Houston Program.
The preponderance of issues implies a
forward direction to drilling activities for
some time. Combined with future negative
supply ratios, steel marketing
professionals can look to $50/barrel as a
benchmark for a hard bottom on a possible
drilling bust.
More than 1,500 cubic yards of trash has
been collected since the program started
last September. That equates to more than
60 garbage truckloads of trash; enough to
fill a basketball court more than nine feet
high.
Curt Frisby is an Account Manager for
Marmon/Keytone.
The effort enlisted judges, who worked
under a blistering summer morning sun
alongside 19 non-violent drug offenders
from the STAR program as they performed
community service work. They were joined
by volunteers from the Clean & Green
program partners: Shell Oil Company,
Buffalo Bayou Partnership, Greater East
End Management District, the Ogg Law
Firm and the Port of Houston Authority.
The volunteers, working the top of the
port's Turning Basin, collected litter and
separated plastics for recycling.
The Clean & Green program is an ongoing
environmental initiative that utilizes
community service workers from the
Harris County Community Supervision
and CorrectionsDepartment five days a
week to collect litter on land and in the
water, via a skimmer boat.
Houston Port Authority Commissioner
Elyse Lanier said, "It's gratifying that the
STAR judges wanted to see up close and
personal what Clean & Green is all about.
Now, the judges have seen exactly what
goes into the work they will be asking their
clients to do.”
The goal of Clean & Green is to restore
Buffalo Bayou to a cleaner, safer, pristine
waterway through removal of trash and
debris. Trash in the bayou ultimately floats
into the Houston Ship Channel and
Galveston Bay. The port authority and its
partners want consumers to realize that any
trash in the streets will go down storm
drains and end up in our bayous and finally,
the Houston Ship Channel and Galveston
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Conference Information
Register online at www.naspd.com or fax
registration form to: (361) 574-9347. For more
information or questions please call the NASPD
office (361) 574-7878. The deadline for regular
registration was Sept. 4, 2008. You may still
register, but late registration fees will apply.
Non-members can attend one meeting before
joining. Late registration fee is $50 and must be
included for each registration received at the
NASPD office after Sept. 4. Late registration
fee for single event registration is $25. Payment
for late registration will only be accepted by
credit card. Payment must be paid in U.S.
currency.
Speakers
Paul Pedini, Sr. Vice-President, Jay
Cashman, Inc.
“The Big Dig – An Inside Look Into the Largest
Civil Engineering Project in the World”.
Paul Pedini graduated in 1977 from Tufts
University with a Bachelor of Science in Civil
Engineering.
He has been employed with Jay Cashman since
2005. He holds the position of Sr. Vice
President. He was Vice President of Modern
Continental Construction from 1983 to 2005
and Project Engineer for Slattery Associates
from 1977 -1983.
He has served in many capacities ranging from
Chairman to Senior Vice President of Boston
Society of Civil Engineers from 1996 - 2002. He
has been a member of Moles (National honorary
society headquartered in New York City for
persons employed in underground construction)
since 1999.
He has received the following awards:
• Tufts University School of Engineering Distinguished Service Award - The highest
recognition given by the University to an
Alumnus - 2002
• American Segmental Bridge Institute Award
of Excellence.
• Tufts University School of Engineering Special RecognitionAward - 2004
• Next Generation Award 2004 - National
design award granted by Metropolis Magazine
in New York to acknowledge his re-use of heavy
construction materials in the design of
commercial building and residence.
• Holcim Prize for Sustainable Construction International competition (1400 entries from
118 countries) received one of five North
American awards for the Big Dig Building 2005
• American Institute of Architects/Boston
Society Architects - 2006 Housing Design
Award for the Big Dig House (his residence in
Lexington, MA)
The following are his publications:
NASPD Fall Conference
Boston - The Fairmont Copley Plaza • Oct. 9-11, 2008
For additional information visit www.naspd.com
Program
Thursday, October 9, 2008
1:00 –
5:00 p.m.
Registration
2:00 –
3:15 p.m.
Executive Committee Meeting
3:15 –
4:00 p.m.
Membership Committee Meeting
3:15 –
4:00 p.m.
Finance Committee Meeting
4:00 –
5:00 p.m.
Board of Directors
7:00 –
9:00 p.m.
Welcoming Reception at the Fairmont Copley Plaza
Friday, October 10, 2008
7:30 –
10:30 a.m. Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:15 a.m. – Noon
General Session
8:15 – 9:15 a.m.
Paul Pedini, Jay Cashman, Inc.
“The Big Dig - An Inside Look Into the Largest Civil Engineering Project in
History”
9:15 – 10:00 a.m. Mike Evans, Vice-President, Maurice Pincoffs, and Attorney Matt Nolan,
Partner, Arent Fox
“Free and Fair Trade Can They Co-Exist? And What’s Next?
10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Break
10:15 – 11:00 a.m. Joe Alvarado, Vice-President, U. S. Steel Tubular Products
“U.S. Steel's Role in the Energy Industry”
11:00 – Noon
Keith Busse, President and CEO, Steel Dynamics
“The State of the Industry”
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Boston Tea Party Networking Luncheon
1:45
– 3:30 p.m.
Boston City Duck Tour - Meet in Lobby. Bus leaves at 1:50
5:30
– 9:30 p.m.
Brief Tour of Harvard Campus, Dinner Reception at the Harvard Faculty Club,
and Greeting by Dr. Barbara Kahn, Harvard Professor (Sister of Fred & Ted
Kahn)
9:30 p.m. – Midnight
Hospitality Suite at the Fairmont Copley Plaza
Saturday, October 11, 2008
8:00 –
10:30 a.m. Full Breakfast and Networking
9:00 –
10:00 a.m. Prime Roundtable Discussion.
Facilitator: Art Shelton
10:00 –
1:00 a.m.
Structural, Limited Service and Used Roundtable Discussion
Facilitator: Chuck Betzler
All attendees are encouraged to participate in the committee meetings with the exception of the
Executive Committee.
“Partnering and technical innovation used to
stabilized slurry trench walls under commuter
rail station for Boston’s Big Dig” - Published in
Proceedings of the Deep Foundation Institute
International Conference, Nice, France 2002
“Design:e2” - Television program dedicated to
the creation and design of the Big Dig House Directed by Tad Fettig for PBS, narrated by Brad
Pitt - 2006
Paul will give a presentation of Boston's Big
Dig, the largest and most controversial civil
engineering project in the history of the United
States.
“Tieback Installation” - Slattery Press, Boston,
MA1983
He was project manager and/or vice president in
charge of over $1.5 billion of tunnel and bridge
construction contracts over a 10 year period.
“Collaboration Between Consulting and
Construction Engineers” - Structural Engineer
Magazine - February 2002
He will include photographs and computer
animations of some of the most challenging
aspects of the project, including
• Building the new tunnel under (and while
supporting) the existing elevated roadway
• Floating out concrete tunnel sections to create
a roadway under Boston Harbor 19
• Using thousands of precast segments to
construct I-93 through and around the Project
• Building an island park in Boston Harbor with
the excavated material
• The Big Dig's legacy
Mike Evans, Vice-President, Maurice Pincoffs
Company, Inc.
“Free and Fair Trade Can They Co- Exist? And
What’s Next?”
Mike is Vice President of Maurice Pincoffs
Company, Inc. He has been employed with
Maurice Pincoffs Company, Inc. since 1981.
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Member
Spotlight
Dilip Bhargava
Dilip Bhargava is President and CEO of NASPD member
company SDB Trade International, Inc. with offices located in
Houston, Texas.
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Dilip and Shalini Bhargava hosted an elegant
wedding at the luxurious Taj Palace Hotel in
New Delhi, India in July for their daughter Girija
and her fiancé Anant Patel. The wedding was
attended by more than 400 friends and family.
The NASPD was represented by Executive
Director Susannah Porr and her husband Don,
and from Atlas Tubular John & Rhonda Hubbard
and Danny & Sherry Rizzo. The main festivities
started on a Tuesday with a lunch at the
Bhargava's Jindal Farm House. Wednesday was a
Mehandi party where henna is applied to the
guests' hands in decorative patterns, followed by
a beautiful evening (named Jodha Night) with a
Rajasthani theme. The Evening's highlight was a
top Bollywood performer/singer from Mumbai.
Thursday the ceremonies continued with formal
engagement ceremonies and a festive reception
highlighted by a dance routine involving the
talented Bhargava family! Girija's years of
classical Indian dance lessons were obvious
when she wowed her guests, and when Dilip and
Shalini joined her on stage the audience erupted!
The only act worthy of following them was
another top “Bollywood” entertainer flown in
from Mumbai for the event. All the guests danced
late into the night.
Friday was a full day of traditional Hindu
ceremonies and Girija was a stunning bride in an
outfit (known as Lehenga) that weighed more
than 35 lbs and was covered in crystals and
jewels. The groom arrived in a horse drawn
carriage after parading through the streets of
Delhi lead by a band, and dancing guests, and
showered by flower petals. The groom and his
father were formally greeted by Dilip, his son
Narayan, and the Bhargava family as they
entered the wedding pavillion. The bride and
groom posed for pictures with all of their guests
and then navigated their way through hours of
traditional Hindu ceremonies with incredible
grace and resilience.
Shalini oversaw every detail with the help of a
full team of decorators and coordinators. Each of
the parties were filled with vibrant colors, cozy
seating arrangements, hookas, fragrant smells,
beautiful floral arrangements, and elaborate
displays of Indian food. It was truly a once-in-alifetime experience.
Northern Indian weddings are well known for
being spectacular events, but Dilip and Shalini
impressed even the most seasoned guests with an
attention to detail that was hard to
imagine. The Bhargavas have raised
a beautiful young woman who
upholds the tradition and ideals of her
proud culture.
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Mike graduated from Texas Tech with a B.A. in
political science. He earned a post graduate degree at
Thunderbird School of International Management in
Phoenix,Arizona.
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Mike's former employments were with Mitsubishi International, Intsel/Daval
Steel, and Commercial Metals Company.
Attorney Mathew Nolan, Partner, Arent Fox. “Free
and Fair Trade Can They Co- Exist? And What’s Next?”
Matthew Nolan's international trade and business
regulation practice encompasses customs regulations
and disputes, import investigations, US export controls
and trade sanctions, trade and investment disputes,
trade policy and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
With over twenty years of experience, he has worked
extensively on issues pertaining to trade and investment
in theAmericas, Europe, SouthAfrica, Turkey and other countries.
Matt also has experience in international commercial transactions, disputes
and arbitrations. Matt has worked extensively in Canada and Mexico on issues
related to the North American Free Trade Agreement; and has worked for
major US and foreign corporations on export control and sanctions matters;
antidumping, countervailing duty, safeguards and section 301 investigations;
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banking, telecommunications and insurance.
Before joining Arent Fox, Nolan practiced at a
nationally recognized law firm, where he was
chairman of the International Department from
1999 to 2003.
Matt is a member of the board of directors of the
Canadian American Business Council and the
Gulf States Partnership, and a member of the
International Council for the Elliott School of
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University.
Matt is an author and speaker on issues
pertaining to the World Trade Organization,
NAFTA, trade litigation issues and US trade
embargoes.
Joe Alvarado, VicePresident, U.S. Steel
Tubular Products
“U.S. Steel's Role in the
Energy Industry”
A native of East Chicago,
Indiana, Joseph Alvarado
graduated from the
University of Notre
Dame (Ind.) in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in
economics and earned a master's degree in
business administration from Cornell University
in Ithaca, N.Y., in 1976.
Mr. Alvarado has spent his entire career in
steelmaking, beginning with his first job after
completing his master's degree. He was hired by
Inland Steel Company in 1976 to serve in the
finance department. In 1979, he moved to
Inland's sales department, where he progressed
through increasingly responsible management
positions in sales and customer service. Mr.
Alvarado was named manager-strategic
planning in 1985, was promoted to managerplate production one year later, and named
manager automotive marketing and
international development in 1987. In 1988, he
was appointed vice president and general
manager-sales and marketing for Inland Bar
Company and was promoted to president in
1995.
Mr. Alvarado assumed the role of executive vice
president-commercial at Birmingham Steel
Company in Birmingham, Ala., in 1997 and
joined Ispat North America Inc. in 1998 as vice
president-long products sales and marketing. In
2004, Mr. Alvarado accepted the positions of
president and chief operating officer at Dallas,
Texas-based Lone Star Technologies, Inc. and
held them until U. S. Steel named him vice
president-tubular in June 2007 after completing
its acquisition of Lone Star Technologies, Inc.
and its related companies.
Mr. Alvarado is a board member of the
Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association and
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the American Petroleum Industry, and a former
board member of the Metal Service Center
Institute. He is also a member of the Independent
PetroleumAssociation ofAmerica.
NASPD Members
Out & About
Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer, Steel
Dynamics, Inc.
“The State of the
Industry”
Submitted by NASPD members
Doug & His Big Catch
On a recent trip to Hawaii, Doug
Fortenberry caught a 150 lb. Blue Marlin
out of Oahu and a 771 lb. Blue Marlin out of
Kona. Doug said, “They had a tournament
going on at the time, had I been in it I would
have one 1st place with many thousands of
dollars.”
Keith headed up the team
that established SDI in
1993. He earned an
accounting degree from
International Business College and a bachelor's
in business finance from the University of Saint
Francis.
Right: Doug and his really big fish!
Upon completion of a master's degree in
business administration at Indiana University in
1978, Keith received the Wall Street Journal
award for academic excellence. He also received
a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Indiana
University - Purdue University Fort Wayne in
1991.
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In 2005, the Association for Iron and Steel
Technology named Keith its Steelmaker of the
Year. In 1997, BusinessWeek listed Keith and
SDI among the top 10 entrepreneurs and
entrepreneurial corporations in the United
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In that same year, Keith was named winner of the
Indiana Ernst & Young Emerging Entrepreneur
of the Year award. In May 1999, he was named
one of the five "Best Undiscovered CEOs" in a
feature article in Individual Investor magazine.
He's also been listed in Outstanding Young Men
ofAmerica and the Who's Who World Registry.
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Prior to founding SDI, Keith worked for Nucor
Corp. for 21 years, rising from division
controller to general manager, and then
ultimately becoming vice president and general
manager of the Nucor's facility at
Crawfordsville, Indiana. At Crawfordsville,
Keith led a team that built and operated the
world's first minimill to use thin-slabcasting
steelmaking technology.
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Keith and colleagues Mark Millett and Dick
Teets set out on their own in 1993 to form Steel
Dynamics, the first new U.S. steel producer in a
century to be formed without corporate backing
or pre-existing financial credentials. Based on
their reputation and a strong business plan, they
succeeded in raising $370 million in capital to
build SDI's flat-roll minimill at Butler, Indiana.
Constructed in a record 14 months, the
Greenfield mill began production of hot-rolled
steel early in 1996 and became profitable in its
sixth month of operation.
Under Keith's leadership, Steel Dynamics has
quickly grown to more than $3 billion in
revenues and is one of the most profitable steel
companies in the world.
HOUSTON TUBULARS,INC
Your Service
Center
• 50 Acre Storage Facility
• 30,000 Sq. Ft. Enclosed
Warehouse
• Direct Discharge
• Local Hauling
• Chloride-Neutralization
• Brush, Roll, & Spray
• Hydro-Abrasive Blasting
TMK
PRODUCTS INCLUDE:
· Mechanical Tubes
· CF Tubes (Carbon, Alloy,
Stainless)
· OCTG
· Seamless Line Pipe in Sizes
2” - 16” OD
· Spiral welded and DSAW line
pipe in sizes 20” 56”
· ERW line pipe in sizes 8” 20”
· Continuous Buttweld Pipe
· Coupling Stock
· Drill Pipe
· Semi-finished steel products
· Continuous cast blooms
TMK PRODUCING MILLS
• Abrasive Blasting
Principal Website:
www.tmkna.com
• Waterblasting
TMK's Holdings consists of 5
Pipe Mills:
- Volzhsky (www.vtz.ru)
- Seversky (www.stw.ru)
- Sinarsky (www.sinarsky.com)
- Taganrog (www.tagmet.ru)
- Artrom (www.artrom.ro)
• Descaling
• Machine Beveling
• Torch Beveling
• Plasma Cutting
• Cut-to-length
• Straightening
• Dedenting
• Threading 1/4" Thru 4" NPT
Details on products, size
ranges and grades for each of
above facilities are available on
the TMK Group website or the
individual mill websites .
CONTACT INFORMATION
1981-2008
27
Years of
Service
Tel: 281.485.9932
Fax: 281.485.6378
Email: hti@pdq.net
2700 Post Oak Blvd., Suite 2425
Houston, TX 77056
Phone: 713-961-0701
Fax: 713-961-0475
Chuck King - President
Mike Christopher - VP Sales
Pete Cronquist - Controller
Cara Davis - Mgr. Sales Service