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Gold/Mining/Energy : Canadian Oil & Gas Companies -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kerm Yerman who wrote (9587)	2/20/2003 9:22:30 AM
From: Wendy McCluskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24921

IPSCO: MFG Operations Hi guys, I've been lurking. Regarding Ipsco (I used to sell pipe for them 12 years ago): In Alberta, they have pipe making operations in Red Deer and Calgary. In Red Deer they make line pipe to 12" or 16" OD and Calgary is used for downhole casing (at least as of 12 years ago). Large diameter pipe (16" to 80" spiral weld)is made pretty much exclusively in Regina, although Ipsco used to have a large OD mill in Edmonton (which I think has now been dismantled). Steel making operations are all in Regina and U.S. so Ipsco's major costs are obviously getting scrap to Regina and then moving skelp to the pipe mills and finished product to market. However, remember that every pipe mill has to bring in skelp (coiled steel) from somewhere and I'm pretty sure that Ipsco has the only steel making operation in Western Canada, although there may be mills south of the border which are as close to market - depends on exchange factors so I doubt if much skelp comes north. Prudential also has a mill in Calgary (I think limited to 12" or maybe 16" diameter - both line pipe and downhole), and there's a large diameter mill in Camrose (I think still owned by Stelco). I believe Camrose and Ipsco still get most of the large pipe orders (ie TransCanada). Hope this info isn't too out of date. Cheers, Wendy