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Sumitomo Corporation Group's Business

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Metal Products

We contribute to the development of local communities and industries with our global value chains for various metal products including iron steel, forged and casted products such as steel sheets, tubular products and railway products.

We cover a wide-range of metal products, from steel products such as steel sheets, tubular products to railway products, those of which are used in various fields and support our lifestyles. These fields include transport vehicles such as automobiles, ships, aircraft and trains; home appliances and office equipment; and tubular products such as Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG) and line pipes used for drilling and transporting oil and natural gas. In the automotive industry, we are responding to the trend toward body weight reduction and the shift toward electric vehicles through material supply which is intended to make a contribution to the building of an environmentally sustainable society. In the energy industry, we help ensure the stable supply of OCTG to the major international oil companies with long-term contracts, while providing high-quality services across the world through our global network.

Global Cases

Expanding the Metal Products and Equipment Business Value Chain in the Energy Industry

U.S.A. / France / Norway / Brunei

Tubular products supporting the energy industry

It is amazing that gasoline, which supports our daily life, is made from oil and transported across vast distances from oil-drilling regions abroad. Metal products and equipment, particularly tubular products, plays an important role in supporting this process to supply such gasoline and other oil and gas products essential to our comfortable modern lifestyles.

Sumitomo Corporation's metal products and equipment business in the energy industry consists of three segments: (1) metal products used in extracting oil and gas from underground (particularly, oil country tubular goods, or OCTG); (2) oilfield equipment, materials and services; and (3) pipes used to transport oil and gas to remote locations (line pipes).

Sumitomo Corporation has a long history and proven track record in dealing with these metal products and equipment used in the energy sector. While in Japan oil and gas production is very small and there is thus only a limited market for OCTG and line pipes, global demand for these products is huge. Customer requirements are demanding due to the harsh conditions under which the products are used. However, Sumitomo Corporation is well received with its provision of quality products and value-added services, supported by manufacturers with high technical capabilities.

Oil production has been expanded to offshore, thanks to technological development around method and equipment (Photo © Harald Pettersen, Statoil)

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