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    Oil States Sells Tubular Business to Marubeni-Itochu Steel

    Written by Sandy Williams


    Sooner Inc., the largest U.S. distributor of pipes for oil and gas, has been purchased by Tokyo-based Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc. for $600 million in cash.  MISI subsidiary Marubeni-Itochu Tubulars America, Inc., will gain a 100 percent of share of Sooner Inc.  The two companies are both based in Houston. 

     

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