{"id":4464,"date":"2016-03-10T20:31:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T20:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=4464"},"modified":"2017-01-25T11:41:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T11:41:20","slug":"vallourec-opens-new-sales-office-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/vallourec-opens-new-sales-office-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Vallourec Opens New Sales Office in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French equipment manufacturer Vallourec has strengthened its proximity with Oil and Gas customers in East Africa by opening a new sales office in Nairobi, Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>According to Vallourec East Africa remains more than ever a strategic region, despite the current challenges in the global oil and gas markets with the new office san indication of \u00a0the Group\u2019s commitment to contribute to the development of the region\u2019s energy sector in the coming years<\/p>\n<p>\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b Country Manager Erwan Le Gouadec will be Vallourec\u2019s local representative, responsible for both the office and the commercial coverage of the Oil &amp; Gas sector in the East African regio\u200bn.<\/p>\n<p>Vallourec is a key player in Africa and is already well established in many countries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Nigeria, with a threading plant in Port Harcourt and a sales and services office in Lagos<\/li>\n<li>In Angola, with a sales and services office in Luanda<\/li>\n<li>In South Africa, with a sales and services office in Johannesburg<\/li>\n<li>In Gabon, with a sales and services office in Port Gentil<\/li>\n<li>\u200b\u200bIn Egypt, with a sales and services office in Cairo\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the oil and gas industry, the Group designs and develops a comprehensive range of products including seamless tubes and premium connections for drilling operations, line pipes and well equipment capable of withstanding extreme operating conditions: high pressure, high temperature, deviated wells, deep offshore, corrosive environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French equipment manufacturer Vallourec has strengthened its proximity with Oil and Gas customers in East Africa by opening a new sales office in Nairobi, Kenya. According to Vallourec East Africa &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/vallourec-opens-new-sales-office-in-kenya\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":4465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[4186,4185,4184,642,671,4177,955,4182,4183,1252,4180,1827,4179,4178,4176,4181],"class_list":["post-4464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-corrosive-environment","tag-deep-offshore","tag-deviated-wells","tag-drilling-operations","tag-east-africa","tag-erwan-le-gouadec","tag-gas","tag-high-pressure","tag-high-temperature","tag-kenya","tag-line-pipes","tag-oil","tag-premium-connections","tag-seamless-tubes","tag-vallourec","tag-well-equipment","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Vallourec.png?fit=930%2C615&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-1a0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14862,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/algeria-vallourec-receives-a-major-octg-notice-of-award-from-sonatrach\/","url_meta":{"origin":4464,"position":0},"title":"ALGERIA: Vallourec Receives a Major OCTG Notice of Award From Sonatrach","author":"","date":"April 14, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Vallourec has received a notice of award to supply Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG) to SONATRACH, the Algeria's National Oil and Gas company. 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