Sooner Pipe
Hemal Solanki serves as the General Manager of IT at Sooner Pipe since August 2019, following an earlier role as IT Application Manager at the same company from September 2011 to July 2019, where responsibilities included managing Oracle E-Business Suite applications and Oracle Business Intelligence. Prior to Sooner Pipe, Hemal held the title of Manager at Accenture Ltd in the System Integration group from August 2007 to September 2011 and served as the SERP Post Implementation Lead at Shell during 2009-2010. Earlier experience includes a position as Principal Consultant at QED Solutions from February 1998 to August 2007, where Hemal provided solutions for Fortune 500 companies through the software development lifecycle. Hemal started their career as a Senior Consultant at International Tech from November 1996 to February 1998, focusing on Oracle ERP and custom applications. Hemal's educational background includes a degree in Computer Engineering/Science from South Gujarat University and the National Institute of Technology Surat, both attained between 1988 and 1992.
Sooner Pipe
Sooner is the leading oil country tubular goods (OCTG) distributor in North America. We've been in business for more than 75 years - perfecting our process, cementing relationships, and building a reputation for absolute fairness and reliability. Today, we are the number one OCTG distributor in the industry, and our customers know they can count on Sooner to be there on time, every time. As part of the Marubeni-Itochu group, Sooner has the resources, capital, and global reach of a major multinational organization. Worldwide, Marubeni-Itochu has approximately $1 billion of inventory on the ground. Together, we are able to make considered, strategic investments in distribution infrastructure and inventory that make it possible for us to respond rapidly to customer demands across North America and around the world. We provide the experience, service, flexibility, competitive environment, and distribution infrastructure that no steel mill can directly offer to the end user. Sooner delivers more casing and tubing to more well sites across North America than any other supplier. We offer our customers more transparency into the purchasing process, more visibility over the progress of their shipment, and more certainty that their order will arrive complete, accurate, and on schedule. With the high cost of drilling operations, you can't afford to trust an inexperienced partner. Trust your business to the company that delivers. Trust your business to Sooner.