Tenaris' new Bay City mill starts rolling pipe for oil wells
http://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Tenaris-new-Bay-City-mill-starts-rolling-pipe-12362301.phpNovember 16, 2017
Global steel pipe giant Tenaris commenced full operations Wednesday at its new $1.8 billion mill southwest of Houston in Bay City to start churning out piping for shale oil and gas wells in Texas, Oklahoma and beyond.
The state-of-the-art mill is designed to bring pipe manufacturing close to the oil and gas wells and compete with Asian imports. Tenaris, an Argentinian company with its roots in Italy, opted to build its most modern and robotically automated mill in Texas to serve the ongoing shale boom in West Texas' Permian Basin and other regions.
Despite the automation that moves the steel from station to station to manufacturing the finished piping, the mill employs about 600 people in Bay City.
"Tenaris is the architect of a new business model in the steel pipe sector – and the heart of this transformation is in Bay City with the most advanced pipe manufacturing facility in the world," said Germán Curá, Tenaris' president for North America....