Edgen Group Inc. distributes specialty steel products to companies that operate in upstream, midstream, and downstream end-markets for oil and natural gas, civil construction, and mining operations. It offers steel pipes, valves, quenched and tempered steel, high yield heavy plates, and related components; seamless and welded pipes; specialty oil country tubular goods, OCTG, and piping materials for hydraulic fracturing, horizontal drilling, and others; steel products for oil and natural gas; and heavy walls, large diameter seamless and welded pipes, high-yield fittings and components, and valves and valve actuators. The company also provides materials for offshore production platforms and vessels; ferrous and nonferrous pipes, fittings, flanges, plates, shapes, bars, and valves; and nuclear-grade materials. In addition, it offers heavy wall pipes, sheets, and structural steel for heavy civil construction; and nickel alloy and hastelloy pipes and accompanying components. Further, the company provides services, such as coordination of high-performance coatings and linings, fabricated ends, wear bands, couplings, and weld rings. It serves multi-national and national oil and natural gas companies, integrated oil and natural gas companies, independent oil and natural gas companies, engineering, procurement and construction firms, onshore and offshore drilling contractors, oil and natural gas transmission and distribution companies, equipment fabricators, petrochemical companies, mining companies, public utilities, civil construction contractors, and municipal and transportation authorities; and hydrocarbon, nuclear, and renewable power generation companies around the world. Edgen Group Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It has stocking facilities in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Dubai, Azerbaijan, the Netherlands, and North America. As of November 20, 2013, Edgen Group Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation.