3rd Annual Steel Tube & Pipe Conference

AMM Events’ invites you to join us in Houston for a specialized event that will give answers to what is ahead for the world of the steel tube and pipe markets and its consumers.  Industry leaders from the energy and non-energy pipe and tube markets will examine market conditions and impacts that will shape 2010 and beyond.

Among the other topics addressed during this event, speakers will examine the economic and trade case climate to see what impact they have had on steel tube and pipe market, as well as breaking down the sectors of tube and pipe from structural to OCTG to linepipe, to give attendees the most up-to-date views and news from industry leaders and experts.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: 

German Cura, Managing Director, North America, Tenaris     
Roger Lindgren, President, V&M Star  

HIGHLIGHT SPEAKERS:

Byron Dunn, Principal, Tubular Synergy Group  
Gregg Eisenberg, Chief Executive Officer, Boomerang Tube
K. K. Purohit, CEO, Hazira Pipe Mill Ltd, Essar Group 
Brian Vaill, CEO, PSL-North America LLC  

PANEL SPEAKERS:

Scott Barnes, Chief Commercial Officer, TMK IPSCO  
Peter Brebach, President, Iron Angles of Colorado
Donald B. Cameron, Practice Group Leader, Troutman Sanders
Dolty Cheramie, President, Pipe Exchange  
Bhaskar Dutta, CEO, Al Jazeera Steel Products Co.
Randall Edwards, President, Drill Pipe Products Group, NOV Grant Prideco 
Dr. Malcolm Gray, President, ITI International LLC   
J. Boyd Heath, President and CEO, Network International
N. Kalyan, Executive Vice President, Marketing, ISMT Limited 
Lewis Leibowitz, Partner, Hogan & Hartson & Counsel to Citac  
Kimberly Leppold, Analyst, Metal Bulletin Research  
James Ley, Consultant, Hatch Consulting  
Tom Marchak, Vice President, Commercial, Severstal North American  
Dan Meinzen, Vice President, JSW Steel USA
Steve Nanney, Project Manager, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) - New Speaker  
Jason Norris, Vice President, Commercial, Dura-Bond  
Alan Price, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP  
Roger Schagrin, Trade Attorney, Schagrin Associates  
David Seeger, President, Atlas Tube  
Alex Tsukernik, Director, Investment Banking, Rodman & Renshaw, LLC
Garry Varney, VP Procurement, Devon Energy
Gary Wade, CEO, Omni Pipe Solutions

Topics Include:

Trade Cases, a Legal Point of View
- What product might be targeted next?
- Will future cases aim for importers other than Chinese firms?
- When might the filings finally stop?

International Pipe and Tube
- Importing standard pipe and square/rectangular tubing
- Potential for growth in the Indian market
- API imports to the U.S.

Oil Country Tubular Goods Outlook
- Analysis of the OCTG “inventory overhang.”
- What are opportunities for OCTG exports from the U.S.?
- How have the cases against China changed the landscape of the international OCTG trade?
- Will there be enough supply for U.S. end users with China out of the picture?

Line Pipe Outlook
- Opportunities for line pipe imports in the U.S. What are the big projects that everyone wants a piece of?
- Is overcapacity a permanent concern for the line pipe sector? Or might new project work pick up again and absorb the newly added domestic capacity?
- Outlook for HSAW vs LSAW large OD line pipe.

Structural Tube
- Construction and automotive tubulars
- How do you pass on increased coil costs to distressed end users?

End User & Distributor Point of View
- What does a customer looks for in a pipe supplier?
- Have the U.S. trade petitions against imports from China changed how domestic companies look at foreign product?
- What does a “supermajor” look for a in a steel pipe supplier? Can foreign material meet those specs?
- What are the challenges that an independent E&P company faces in sourcing steel pipe and tube for shale oil and gas plays?