Revenue. Revenue increased by $582.4 million, or 123.8%, to $1,052.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2017 from $470.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2016. 20.7% and 5.9% of the increase, or $120.8 million and $34.4 million, was attributable to an increase in the average prices of OCTG and line pipe, respectively, while 59.6% and 11.8% of the increase, or $346.9 million and $68.9 million, was attributable to an increase in OCTG and line pipe sales volumes, respectively. Both of the increases in sales volume and prices were driven by an increase in demand for OCTG and line pipe as a result of E&P operators increasing their capital expenditures on drilling and production activity following a recovery in oil and natural gas prices. Increased consumption of OCTG and line pipe products is a result of increased drilling activity and longer lateral lengths used in the exploration and production of oil by E&P operators. The remaining 1.9% increase for the year ended December 31, 2017, or $11.3 million, was driven by increases in sales pricing and increases in sales volumes for industrial pipe.

Our operations benefit from our broad, strategically positioned geographic footprint, which supports our ability to supply seamless and welded OCTG to the most active major oil and gas basins in the United States and Canada. We own and operate 11 production facilities in the United States and Canada that produce a wide range of OCTG in various sizes and grades and together offer approximately 1.5 million tons of annual steel pipe production capacity, approximately 1.5 million tons of annual threading capacity and 674,000 tons of annual heat treating capacity. We have finishing facilities in close proximity to our end-users’ E&P operations, which allows us to provide our customers with customized technical solutions and to synchronize our production and logistics with evolving demands. We also import seamless OCTG and line pipe in sizes that we do not produce domestically from our parent, PAO TMK, and its non-U.S. subsidiaries. We refer to PAO TMK and its affiliates

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Continue to improve operational efficiencies to maintain a leading edge cost structure. During the recent industry downturn we focused on improving our operating efficiencies and optimizing our interplant logistics. These initiatives included re-designing operational structures and consolidating facilities through the implementation of our “balanced-campus” approach, which led to significant reductions in inter-plant logistics costs. As a result of these initiatives, we believe that we have significantly improved our right first time, or RFT, yield (both in seamless and welded pipe), reduced customer claims and increased overall equipment effectiveness, or OEE. We use OEE to measure manufacturing productivity by identifying the percentage of manufacturing time that is truly productive and benchmarking our facilities against one another to determine where to invest our resources and how to improve our manufacturing process. This, in turn, helps us to implement a cost-effective capital spending program. We have developed a detailed plan for additional structural cost savings and continue to identify and invest in projects to improve interplant logistics and value-added projects. Our 2018 initiatives include significant cost reduction

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Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017

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During 2017 and the six months ended June 30, 2018, our primary sources of liquidity were cash flows from our operations, existing cash balances and intercompany borrowings from our affiliated companies in the TMK Group. Our cash and cash equivalents were $1.9 million and $7.1 million as of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively. In March 2017, we received a capital contribution from PAO TMK, our