For over 40 years, V&M Tubes had developed new products for the OCTG activities. More than 35 connections were created in Aulnoye Aymeries (North of France), for most of them, with the participation of SUMITOMO through an RD agreement signed 25 years ago. A common affiliate VAM North America (Houston USA) participate also to this development.

Vallourec Research Center building in Aulnoye Aymeries France

One of the keys of the success lies to the ability to perform FEA analysis and test at full scale these connections.

The main activities of R&D Premium Connections is :

• The development of VAM Products lines for oil & gas industry
• Design of gauging equipment
• Technical documentation
• Testing Facility

  Ressources
  
  3 TESTING FACILITIES

  • AULNOYE
  • AMAGASAKI
  • HOUSTON

  VAM a strong R&D

  The mission on V&M TUBES is to develop the most innovative and competitive solutions to our customer's challenges.

  V&M Tubes continue to develop connections for OCTG as well as solutions for High Pressure / High Temperature applications.

  V&M Tubes has developed a full range of connections for drilling and productions riser applications with excellent fatigue resistance. V&M is also developing expandable premium connections.

  2 to 4 New Products / Year are designed by VAM family

  Strengths :

  • 3 R&D Teams and testing faculties
  • Wide licensee network
  • CAD and FEA Equipments. More than 12000 documents dispatched of about 55000 copies/year.
  • ISO 9001 qualification
  • WORKING METHODOLOGY
    • Market survey Specifications R&D study Design validation
    • Development using project organization.
  • ADAPTABILITY TO CUSTOMER NEED
    • About 40 requests of Isolated products per year, concluded by about 30 specific products per year

  VAM family laboratories provides access to a powerful combination of equipment designed to perform a large range of research and testing requirement. 6 main frames are available. 50% of testing potential is dedicated to customer qualification tests, more than 300 VAM connections were tested and qualified by VAM customers since 1986.