in shale gas development in North America. SCOAs Non-Ferrous Metal Business is comprised partly from activities in the companys ownership stake in SC Minerals America Inc.(a joint... investment with SC). In addition, SCOA has an investment in Summit Mining International Inc. (SUMI), a human resource provider with deep expertise in the mining business. SUMI... was established in 2009 to support the operation of a silver, zinc and lead mine project in San Cristobal, Bolivia, that is wholly-owned by Sumitomo Corporation (SC). By utitlizing...

& Feedback SCOA, together with Sumitomo Corporation (SC), are investors in both Summit Discovery Resources LLC (SDR) and Summit Discovery Resources II LLC (SDR I). Both companies have... minority interests in shale gas projects in the U.S., with one in Texas and the other in Pennsylvania. In 2009, SCOA and SC jointly invested in a Barnett Shale project in Texas... through SDR. This investment represented the first time an Asian-based company joined a shale gas production operation. Following the Barnett Shale project, SCOA and SC participated...

in supporting the other mining businesses SC Tokyo operates, according to SUMI staff members. SUMI was established primarily to optimize the San Cristobal projects operation..., a hallmark of SC and SCOAs business philosophy of integrated corporate strength. SUMIs operation capability and SCs corporate strength are fused together; as an SC group company...

Summit Energy Pacific Summit Energy LLC (PSE) is a company engaged in trading natural gas and electricity in the U.S. SCOA and Sumitomo Corporation (SC) have ownership stakes...

the focus back to Japan, the birthplace of many of SCOA's rotating staff. Following the lead of Sumitomo Corporation's (SC) immediate contribution of 400 million yen ($4.9 million... subsidiaries in Japan contributed in-kind help to local towns and partner companies, including water, food, blankets, sleeping bags, batteries, towels, clothes and toiletries. SC Tohoku... was the first SC company to participate, delivering bottled water - about 6,000 liters -- to three evacuation centers in Minamisanriku-cho, a Japanese town that experienced severe...