Siemens

Scope Of Work

In recent years, the oil and gas industry worldwide has responded to severe market-pricing pressures by finding ways to gain new efficiencies. That includes the industry’s many thousands of suppliers, large and small. Among those is Tenaris, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of steel piping and related services needed for exploration and production (E&P) operations. Each year, the company’s plants in North America, South America, Europe, and Eastern Hemisphere produce more than six million tons of steel pipes. With a focused eye on plant safety while staying competitive and profitable, Tenaris is always seeking to drive greater production quality and efficiency. In 2017, it achieved these goals with the opening of its newest showcase plant, TenarisBayCity. Five years before, with about 40 percent of its sales from North America, Tenaris began planning the world’s largest and most automated seamless pipe making plant for Bay City, Texas. The location is ideal. The $1.8 billion plant covers 1.2 million square-feet and employs more than 600 people. It sits on 1,500 acres in the heart of Texas oil country, near E&P customers in the high-growth Permian Basin and Eagle Ford shale formations. After four years of construction, the facility completed commissioning and began operations. The plant adds 600,000 tons of seamless pipe-making capacity and services to the output from five other Tenaris facilities in the U.S. as well as the company’s integrated global manufacturing network. “We were excited that Siemens technology could help solve the novel engineering challenges Tenaris faced with this innovative plant,” said Raj Batra, president of Siemens Digital Factory USA. “The TenarisBayCity plant is a testimony to the power of digitalization for driving innovative manufacturing into a new age.”