The agreement was reached during the international exhibition Adipec 2022 in Abu Dhabi, where Centravis presented its products.
We are talking about Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), with which Centravis has been cooperating for a long time. However, after a series of shelling of the territory of Ukraine this autumn, the client from Oman suspended cooperation due to possible security risks.
During the meeting at the exhibition in Abu Dhabi, the representatives of Centravis managed to convince the partners from Petroleum Development Oman in the ability to fulfill the order qualitatively and on time.
“After successful negotiations, we received a new order for the production of almost 20 tons of GTP duplex steel grade pipes,” said Natalia Ryazantseva, Head of Marketing Department.
According to her, Centravis currently uses various forms of communication with customers to ensure a stable order book. In particular, weekly letters with information about production and security situation in the region and the country are published on the company’s website. Also, representatives of Centravis regularly travel to meet with customers, the company participates in international exhibitions. This autumn, Centravis had separate stands at the exhibitions in Maastricht World Stainless Steel and Adipec 2022 in Abu Dhabi.
“In times of war, each order is even more important than in peacetime. We managed to preserve the main backbone of customers and, accordingly, the production volume and team. This is the main achievement and we are doing everything to keep the economic front and help the country”, – said Natalia Ryazantseva.
Centravis is one of the ten largest manufacturers of seamless stainless pipes in the world. The company’s production volume at the end of 2021 amounted to 19.43 thousand tons.
From the first days of the full-scale war against Ukraine, the company joined the support of the rear and the front. 119 employees of the company joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Also, funds were allocated for the purchase of necessary materials and equipment for the forces of the security and defense sector – in accordance with the requests received by the company.
First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Kornienko invited Oman to consider the possibility of participating in the restoration of Ukrainian regions affected by Russian aggression.
According to the press service of the office of the Verkhovna Rada, Kornienko made such a proposal during a meeting with a delegation headed by Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Sultanate of Oman Khalid Al-Maawali at the site of the Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Kigala (Rwanda).
He also called for the creation of inter-parliamentary friendship groups.
“The creation of inter-parliamentary friendship groups will be an important first step to enhance cooperation between the legislative bodies of Ukraine and Oman,” Kornienko said.
The First Deputy Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament invited members of the Omani delegation to take part in the first parliamentary summit of the Crimea Platform in Zagreb at the end of October.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Senik has held talks via videlink with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Oman Ahmed Yousuf Al-Harthy. These are the first talks at the level of deputy foreign ministers in the history of bilateral relations, the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported.
It is noted that the main topic of the conversation was practical steps that will enable intensification of the development of Ukrainian-Omani cooperation in the political, trade, economic and investment spheres.
“Ukraine and Oman have significant potential for expanding trade and economic cooperation. In particular, an increase in the supply of Ukrainian agricultural and food products to the Omani market will increase the level of food security of the Sultanate,” Senik said.
The parties noted the importance of maintaining a political dialogue between Ukraine and Oman, in particular in the format of regular consultations between the foreign ministries. In this regard, Senik invited Al-Harthy to visit Kyiv.
The Omani side also welcomed the initiative of the Deputy Minister to organize a visit of a business delegation to Muscat in order to intensify contacts between commodity producers.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, trade in goods between Ukraine and Oman amounted to $89.1 million (domestic exports accounted for $79.45 million) in 2019. In January-August 2020, it was equal to $78.88 million (of which Ukrainian exports was $63.78 million).
In December 2018, an export mission of Ukrainian producers visited Muscat. In April and October 2019, Ukrainian-Omani business forums were held with the participation of delegations from regional chambers of commerce and industry of North Ash-Sharqiyah and Al-Buraimi provinces. On November 6, 2019, the first round of political consultations between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and the Sultanate of Oman took place in Muscat.
The Cabinet of Ministers has authorized Finance Minister Oksana Markarova to sign an agreement with the government of Oman to avoid double taxation and prevent tax evasion with respect to income and capital taxes.
The government made the relevant decision at a meeting on July 24 without discussion.
In addition, the government authorized Markarova to sign a protocol on amendments to the agreement on avoiding double taxation with the government of the United Arab Emirates.
The State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumers’ Rights Protection and the competent authority of the Sultanate of Oman have agreed on the requirements for exports of Ukrainian dairy products to Oman, the press service of the Ukrainian agency has said.
According to information on the website of the service, Ukrainian manufacturers must provide a veterinary certificate, a certificate of origin of products and a certificate of tests for radiation.
According to the agency, the work on the promotion of Ukrainian dairy products to the markets of other countries of the Persian Gulf continues.
As reported, Ukraine in 2018 opened 85 export markets for various types of products and increased the number of enterprises that received the right to export food of animal origin. Some 126 national producers are allowed to export food to EU countries.
ETFX UK Group (Oman) has won a tender to use the facilities of PJSC Odesa Port-Side Plant on the tolling terms, First Deputy Director of the plant Mykola Schurikov has said. “After counting the points of the participants, ETFX UK Group receives the maximum number of points,” he wrote on Facebook. ETFX UK Group offered Odesa Port-Side Plant to pay for its work at $34 per tonne of produced ammonia and $46.5 per tonne of produced urea.
According to Schurikov, besides the winner, the bids were submitted by International V.T.I. Group Holding B.V. (the United States) and Boros LLC, but their packages of documents were incomplete.
International V.T.I. Group, as well as Trameta K.S. (Slovakia) requested an extension of the deadline for filing documents, but the tender commission did not find the necessary grounds for this.
As reported, Odesa Port-Side Plant refers to work on the tolling terms as the only possible option for resuming operations in the conditions of failure of privatization attempts and accumulated debt for gas to Naftogaz Ukrainy, which exceeds UAH 1.5 billion.
The state-owned Odesa Port-Side Plant produces chemical products, and also transships ammonia to sea transport.
