Ural Pipe Plant produced 73,248 tons of tubular goods in January-July 2009, which was 43.7% less than a year earlier, the enterprise’s Marketing Department reports.

The plant also cut its oil pipeline output by 8.1%, so only 43,032 tons of those were made in seven months of 2009. The shaped tubes output plunged by 2.76 times and came to 30,216 tons.

The company shipped 73,279 tons of tubes to consumers in January-July 2009, including 41,676 tons of oil country tubular goods and 31,603 tons of shaped tubes. The overall decrease in shipments came to 42.8%, with OCTG and shaped tubes shipments dropping by 9.2% and by 2.6 times, respectively.