U. S. Steel Announces New Standard and Line Pipe Authorized Distributors

DALLAS, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) today announced its new distribution network for Standard and Line Pipe sales in the United States resulting from its acquisition of Lone Star Technologies, Inc. and its related companies on June 14.

Similar to its strategy with Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG), U. S. Steel is committed to marketing its Standard and Line Pipe products in North America through a selective, authorized distribution network of 16 national and 13 regional distributors. These distributors will be responsible for selling Seamless and Electric Resistance Welded (ERW) products into Standard and Line Pipe applications.

The following companies have been named to the list of authorized Standard and Line Pipe distributors:

  Seamless and Electric Resistance Welded (ERW)

  -- Consolidated Pipe & Supply (national)
  -- Edgen Murray (national)
  -- Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. (national)
  -- La Barge Pipe & Steel (national)
  -- McJunkin Corporation (national)
  -- Red Man Pipe & Supply (national)
  -- Texas Pipe & Supply (national)
  -- Wilson Supply (national)
  -- Allegheny Pipe & Supply Company (regional)
  -- BBL Co. (regional)
  -- Charles D. Sheehy, Inc. (regional)
  -- Chicago Tube & Iron (regional)
  -- City Pipe & Supply (regional)
  -- Commercial Pipe & Supply Corp. (regional)
  -- The Ideal Supply Company (regional)
  -- Louis P. Canuso, Inc. (regional)
  -- Petroleum Pipe and Supply Company Inc. (regional)
  -- Youngstown Pipe & Supply (regional)

  Seamless Only

  -- Dixie Pipe Sales (national)
  -- Kelly Pipe Company (national)
  -- Pipe Distributor Inc. (national)
  -- Marmon/Keystone (national)
  -- Mattsco Supply Company (national)
  -- Tubular Steel (national)
  -- State Pipe & Supply Company (regional)

  ERW Only

  -- Pipe Exchange (national)
  -- Tex-Isle Supply (national)
  -- Columbia Pipe & Supply Co. (regional)
  -- Ken Miller Supply Inc. (regional)

  For more information about U.S. Steel, visit http://www.ussteel.com/.

SOURCE: United States Steel Corporation

CONTACT: John Armstrong, +1-412-433-6792 or Erin DiPietro,
+1-412-433-6845, both of United States Steel Corporation

Web site: http://www.ussteel.com/

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