In recognition of the performance of VAM® Licensed companies, every year VAM® Services presents awards for the best performance. Read more...
A new service of make-up graph review is now available. Submit your graphs online 24/7 and get an answer within 24 hours. For more information, please look at the brochure.
Dear All, we are pleased to announce that you can now compare CDS online. The tool is available in the toolbox / Data Sheet Comparison.
A new VAM® Services center will be launched in Brazil on October 4 to provide a better support to all the manufacturers of VAM® connections in South America.
Please be informed that the VAM® license of the company Cameron Singapore located in Singapore has been started by VAM® Services on October 7th, 2014.
Please be informed that the VAM® license of the company W.E.I s.r.l located in Fiorenzuola d’Arda, Italy has been terminated by VAM® Services on October 21st, 2013. This company has no more access to the VAM technology and should not be used to repair any VAM® joint or manufacture any VAM® Accessory.
Please be informed that the VAM® license of the company Weatherford Kazakhstan LLP located in Aksaï, Kazakhstan has been terminated by VAM® Services on October 15th, 2013. This company has no more access to the VAM technology and should not be used to repair any VAM® joint or manufacture any VAM® Accessory.
Please be informed that the VAM® license of the company PROBE OIL TOOLS has been terminated by VAM® Services on September 5th, 2013. This company has no more access to the VAM® technology and should not be used to repair any VAM® joint or manufacture any VAM® Accessory.
Please be informed that the VAM® license of the company PINNACLE MANUFACTURING LLC in Broussard, USA has been terminated by VAM® Services on May 27th, 2013. This company has no more access to the VAM technology and should not be used to repair any VAM® joint or manufacture any VAM® Accessory.
Please be informed that the VAM® license of the company NUOVA OMG located in Ravena, Italy has been terminated by VAM® Services on October 4th, 2012. This company has no more access to the VAM technology and should not be used to repair any VAM® joint or manufacture any VAM® Accessory.
Please be informed that the VAM® license of the company UCM Oil-Tex Threading Ltd located in Chonburi, Thailand has been terminated by VAM® Services on May 17th, 2013. This company has no more access to the VAM technology and should not be used to repair any VAM® joint or manufacture any VAM® Accessory.
Please be informed that the VAM® license of the company Amtex Machine Products Canada Ltd located in Nisku, Canada has been terminated by VAM® Services on May 27th, 2013. This company has no more access to the VAM technology and should not be used to repair any VAM® joint or manufacture any VAM® Accessory.
Please be informed that the VAM® license of the company PT Besmindo Borneo Semestra located in Balikpapan, Indonesia has been terminated by VAM® Services on May 27th, 2013. This company has no more access to the VAM technology and should not be used to repair any VAM® joint or manufacture any VAM® Accessory.
In recognition to their outstanding contribution of the high quality achieved in the manufacture of VAM® products according to VAM® Services standards, the best licensees in 2011 are :...
AOS Ghana Ltd has been licensed by VAM® Services and has already been qualified to machine the following VAM® premium connections: VAM® TOP, DINO VAM® andVAM® EIS.
Vallourec is partnering with Petrobras to establish a new research center in Brazil.
Vallourec announced last November that it would invest to install 2 premium threading lines at the V & M Star complex located in Ohio, USA.
The latest generation of VAM connections demonstrates performance for sour service HPHT casing application. A string of 9-7/8” 66.9# casing with VAM®21 connections was supplied to Marathon, Norway for the 25/10-11 Earb HPHT exploration well by Vallourec & Mannesmann Tubes.
The latest generation of VAM connections proves success in German operation. A string of 9-5/8” 47# L80 casing with VAM®21 connection was supplied to GdF Suez, Germany for Römerberg 3 well by Vallourec & Mannesmann Tubes.
In 2010, some VAM Licensees have demonstrated outsanding knowledge and implementation of the VAM specifications. VAM Services would like to congratulate them.
Change of colour coding on V&M Super 13%Cr grades: VM 95 13CRSS, VM 110 13CRSS. In order to be compliant with ISO 13680:2008 requirements, V&M has changed accordingly the colour coding of it proprietary grades VM 95 13CRSS and VM 110 13CRSS.
In 2009, some VAM Licensees have demonstrated outsanding knowledge and implementation of the VAM specifications. VAM Services would like to congratulate them.
VALLOUREC & MANNESMANN TUBES will participate in the NEFTEGAZ exhibition, which will take place from June 21-25 in Moscow, Russia. We will be pleased to welcome you at the booth 1D68 - Pavilion 1
A string of VAM® EWT, the Expandable connection from Vallourec & Mannesman Tubes, threaded on the V & M proprietary grade VM50 ET was recently installed in an Off-shore well operated by Chevron located in the UK sector of the North Sea.
V & M TUBES celebrates the opening of its threading workshop in Onne: VAM Onne Nigeria....
V & M TUBES will be present at AOG, the Australasian Oil & Gas exhibition and conference to be held in Perth Convention Exhibition Centre, Australia on 24-26 March 2010.
VAM® 21 Success in StatoilHydro First Commercial Run - 45 years after launching the first generation of VAM® connections, VAM® 4th generation T&C premium connection VAM® 21 was successfully run as a first commercial deployment for StatoilHydro offshore Norway, May 13th, 2009.
In 2008, some VAM Licensees have demonstrated outsanding knowledge and implementation of the VAM specifications. VAM Services would like to congratulate them.
The former low torque test plug / cap fixture were designed to be made up with a power tong at a lower torque than normal torque values specified for coupling. It has never been approved by VAM with the combination of a PTFE ring. [...]
VALLOUREC & MANNESMANN TUBES (V & M TUBES) has been supplying SEA VAM® TTR, a threaded and coupled connection for Top Tensioned Riser (TTR) applications since 2005.
VAM® Changzhou threaded the first tubes in October 2007. Since, production has been ramping up and the team is now mastering the production of VAM® TOP to serve our Chinese clients.
V & M TUBES presented VAM – VAM RISER – VAM DRILLING products at the Deep Offshore Technology (DOT) Conference in Perth.
The first ''commercial'' string of VAM HTF has been run in the USA for DEVON Energy, in an on-shore well located in East Texas.
VAM is pleased to announce that the Jetlube Run-N-Seal ECF was successfully qualified on 13 3/8" 72# N80 DINO VAM at an independent testing facility.
More details on the recent qualification test that was successfully completed on DINO VAM
In 2007, some VAM Licensees have demonstrated outsanding knowledge and implementation of the VAM specifications. VAM Services would like to congratulate them.
We've got high torque sealed. High torque flush premium connection.
V & M TUBES sponsored the 10th edition of the Expandable Technology Forum on October 30th-31st in Château Pommery in Reims, France.
On Friday 13 July, a 5 1/2'' x 17 lbs/ft VM50 VAM ET WISE expandable string was successfully run (with no rejects) and expanded in the 7'' section of a well in the Middle-East desert.
A successful field trial confirms V&M do Brasil qualification to manufacture V&M most innovative solution for the environment. From now on, V&M customers can count on the Brazilian facility to order the dope free premium connection.
V&M would like to answer to customers and Licensees' questions by officially stating that genuine VAM connections are not compatible with VAM copies.
In June 2005, VAM PTS ran the first dope free integral connections in the Gulf of Mexico.
Following the success in July 2004 of the CLEANWELL rig demonstration in Aberdeen performed by VMOG UK, witnessed by many North Sea operators, Petro-Canada has successfully achieved its first UK field run of V & M Tubes' CLEANWELL dope free system.
A demonstration of the V & M dope-free solution, CLEANWELL was performed on the DTL Rig., Aberdeen Bridge of Don. The reliability of the industrial efficiency of V & M CLEANWELL solution was confirmed to be ''field practical''
Late April to early May, the world's first 7-5/8'' 13Cr solid expandable tubular was run in Malaysia. During these jobs V&M has demonstrated once again its ability to develop, manufacture, supply & support the oil industry with efficient gas tight expandable products.