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Note 27 - Cancellation of title deed in Saudi Steel Pipe Company
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022
Disclosure of Cancellation of title Deed in Affiliates [Abstract]  
Note 27 - Cancellation of title deed in Saudi Steel Pipe Company

27Cancellation of title deed in Saudi Steel Pipe Company

 

In early 2021, the Company learned through the Saudi Ministry of Justice’s online portal that the electronic title deeds to certain land plots of its Saudi Arabian subsidiary SSPC had become inactive due to cancellation by court order.

 

The affected land plots, with a total surface of 811,284 square meters, are located in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, and were purchased from a private entity on February 2010, pursuant to a written purchase agreement duly executed by SSPC in full compliance with the laws of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The purchase of the land occurred before Tenaris’s acquisition of a 47.79% interest in SSPC in 2019. The affected plots are not part of the production facility of SSPC, have been partially used as a warehouse, and have a carrying value on Tenaris’s financial statements of $56.2 million. 

 

As of the date hereof, neither the cancellation nor the court order have been notified to SSPC or otherwise been made public by the authorities, and the legal basis for the court order is unknown. On May 4, 2021, SSPC filed a petition with an ad-hoc newly-created special committee at the Saudi Ministry of Justice, seeking to have its title deeds reinstated. The proceeding is still ongoing and, at this time, it is not possible to predict the outcome of this matter.