Vallourec was awarded a major contract by Subsea7 to supply about 130 km of carbon steel line pipe, over 15,000 tons, plus thermal insulation coating for Petrobras' Sepia 2 pre-salt project in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil.

Vallourec secured a significant contract from Shell to supply OCTG seamless pipes, VAM premium connections and value-added services for Shell's offshore Orca project in Brazil, with drilling expected from April 2027 and 12,000 to 15,000 tons of pipes.

Vallourec was awarded a long-term Petrobras contract to supply seamless OCTG pipes and VAM premium connections plus services for offshore wells in Brazil from 2026 to 2029, worth up to USD 1 billion.

Changzhou Max Metal Package signed a contract with a Brazilian partner for easy-open tin can lids worth about $20 million, following the FI South America food processing exhibition.

Vallourec has signed a significant contract with Petrobras to supply premium OCTG tubes and services for the Sepia 2 and Atapu 2 pre-salt projects. Deliveries of up to 25,000 tons over three years will come from its Brazilian plants.

Vallourec signed a 5-year turnkey contract to supply premium tubes, connections, accessories and services to Equinor in Brazil for the Bacalhau, Raia and Peregrino fields, with first deliveries expected in the second half of 2025.

Vallourec has secured a contract to supply Petrobras with 1,800 tonnes of premium carbon steel tubes with GRE liners and CRA accessories, plus related services, for offshore wells in the Campos pre-salt basin. The products will be manufactured at Vallourec's plant in Barreiro, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Vallourec will supply 35,000 metric tons of line-pipe, including 2,000 metric tons of X80 grade, to ExxonMobil Guyana for the deep-water Uaru project in the Stabroek Block. The order is the third under a long-term agreement and will be served from Vallourec's Jeceaba factory in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Novelis completed a $150 million investment adding 100 kilotonnes each of rolling and recycling capacity at its Pindamonhangaba plant in Brazil, lifting annual capacity to about 680 kilotonnes of aluminum sheet and 490 kilotonnes of recycling.

Sandvik won a contract to supply more than 500 km of super duplex stainless steel umbilical tubes, encapsulated by Prysmian, for Brazil's Mero pre-salt oilfield in the Santos Basin. The order is for the Mero 1 phase, operated by the Libra Consortium.

Vallourec Soluções Tubulares do Brasil was awarded a contract by TechnipFMC to supply about 12,000 tons of seamless steel rigid line pipe for the Mero 1 pre-salt field in the Libra block. Pipe supply starts at the end of 2019.

Novelis has started work on expanding its Pindamonhangaba plant in São Paulo state, Brazil, with an investment of 650 million reais (about US$167 million) including a rail terminal. The expansion adds 100,000 t/y of rolling capacity and 60,000 t/y of recycled output, with completion expected in 2021.

thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions won an EPC contract from ArcelorMittal to replace one coke battery at the Tubarão steel plant in Espírito Santo, Brazil, maintaining 600,000 tons per year of coke output. More than 700 jobs will be created at peak construction, which is expected to start in mid-2019.

Novelis announced a $175 million investment to add 100 kilotonnes of rolling and 60 kilotonnes of recycling capacity at its Pindamonhangaba plant in Brazil, with construction starting February 2019 and completion expected in 2021.

Vesuvius Steel Flow Control and ThyssenKrupp CSA signed a turnkey contract to install Vesuvius Robotic Casting Technology at ThyssenKrupp's facility outside Rio de Janeiro.