With nearly four decades of dedicated coverage, we have developed a true understanding of the cycle-driven complexities and unique interdependencies that drive performance in the mission-critical energy, power and infrastructure markets. GulfStar leverages its extensive track record and deep network of relationships to deliver a practiced, analytical approach that emphasizes positioning and timing to optimize transactional options.
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- Downstream Industrial Services
- Energy Consulting
- Energy Engineering
- Energy Trading & Transportation
- Fuel Distribution
- Infrastructure Services
- Midstream Construction
- Midstream Services
- Oilfield Construction & Fabrication
- Oilfield Products Manufacturing & Distribution
- Oilfield Services
- Power Generation Services
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Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Environmental & Sustainability
Mergers & Acquisitions
Founded in 1985 and based in Deer Park, Texas, Miller Integrated Solutions is a leading industrial cleaning, environmental, and mechanical services company that operates within the downstream, midstream, and upstream hydrocarbon processing markets. With six strategically located facilities across its Gulf Coast footprint, Miller Integrated Solutions leverages its 400+ field-based crewmembers to support over 100 master service agreements across multiple recurring, maintenance-driven, service disciplines including tank cleaning, unmanned hydroblasting, vacuum truck services, spill cleanup, air mover & hydro excavation, chemical cleaning, vapor control, rubber lining & coating services, field specialty welding, mechanical maintenance and fabrication. The Company also has extensive experience in the environmental spill response industry and can build, clean and demolish equipment and structures, as well as support any environmental needs throughout the lifecycle of its customers.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Environmental & Sustainability
Mergers & Acquisitions
Based in Odessa, Texas, and established in 2003, eTech is a leading environmental remediation business providing regulatory mandated environmental consulting, soil sampling & testing, remediation, waste management, and long-term compliance services to a large base of blue-chip customers in the upstream, midstream, government, and industrial end markets throughout the Permian Basin. With over 125 skilled environmental technicians and professionals in the field, a top-tier safety record, and a robust portfolio of Master Service Agreements, the Company’s services allow them to work in a diverse array of environmental disciplines, including soil and groundwater testing, remediation, asbestos, mold and lead consulting, federal and state permitting assistance, and a broad range of compliance support. The partnership with KLH will enable the Company to accelerate its growth and continue to expand its service offerings throughout the United States.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cross-Border Transactions
Headquartered in Houston, Texas and founded over 35 years ago, ZymeFlow is the worldwide leader in decontamination of hydrocarbon process equipment for entry, inspection, maintenance and effluent management. The proprietary ZymeFlow process prepares equipment for entry by simultaneously de-oiling while eliminating pyrophoric iron sulfide, hydrogen sulfide, benzene and other explosive gases. ZymeFlow products and services are currently utilized in refining, petrochemical, and LNG facilities for both onshore and offshore customers in more than 55 countries. ZymeFlow’s ecofriendly and patented products and services are highly efficient in the decontamination and maintenance of energy and chemical processing facilities in the United States and around the world.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Founded in 1997, FCI is a vertically integrated provider of high-quality forged, heat treated, and machined pressure control connection products for the downstream, midstream, upstream, LNG, marine, aerospace, and defense markets. FCI’s product portfolio along with its forging and heat treat capability are highly complementary to Westbrook’s current offerings and will allow the combined platform to better serve a wider range of customers.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Environmental & Sustainability
Mergers & Acquisitions
Through its subsidiaries, Matrix is a leading North American industrial engineering, construction, and maintenance contractor headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma with offices located throughout the United States and Canada, as well as Sydney, Australia and Seoul, South Korea. The Company provides services in three key operating segments: utility and power infrastructure, process and industrial facilities, and storage and terminal solutions.
Financial Advisory Services
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Advisory Services
Adams is engaged in the marketing, transportation, and storage of crude oil through its subsidiaries GulfMark Energy, Inc, Victoria Express Pipeline, L.L.C., GulfMark Terminals, LLC; the transportation of liquid chemicals and dry bulk through its subsidiary Service Transport Company; and the recycling and repurposing of off-spec fuels, lubricants, crude oil and other chemicals through its subsidiaries, Phoenix Oil, Inc. and Firebird Bulk Carriers, Inc. The Company is listed on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol “AE.”
Financial Advisory Services
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Advisory Services
Adams is engaged in the marketing, transportation, and storage of crude oil through its subsidiaries GulfMark Energy, Inc, Victoria Express Pipeline, L.L.C., GulfMark Terminals, LLC; the transportation of liquid chemicals and dry bulk through its subsidiary Service Transport Company; and the recycling and repurposing of off-spec fuels, lubricants, crude oil and other chemicals through its subsidiaries, Phoenix Oil, Inc. and Firebird Bulk Carriers, Inc. The Company is listed on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol “AE.”
KSA Industries, Inc.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Advisory Services
Adams is engaged in the marketing, transportation, and storage of crude oil through its subsidiaries GulfMark Energy, Inc, Victoria Express Pipeline, L.L.C., GulfMark Terminals, LLC; the transportation of liquid chemicals and dry bulk through its subsidiary Service Transport Company; and the recycling and repurposing of off-spec fuels, lubricants, crude oil and other chemicals through its subsidiaries, Phoenix Oil, Inc. and Firebird Bulk Carriers, Inc. The Company is listed on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol “AE.”
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
Adams is engaged in crude oil marketing, transportation, terminalling and storage tank truck transportation of liquid chemicals and dry bulk and recycling and repurposing of off-spec fuels, lubricants, crude oil and other chemicals through its subsidiaries, GulfMark Energy, Inc., Service Transport Company, Victoria Express Pipeline, L.L.C., GulfMark Terminals, LLC, Phoenix Oil, Inc., and Firebird Bulk Carriers, Inc. The Company is listed on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol “AE.”
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Thorpe Specialty Services is a leading specialty services provider in energy and industrial markets for maintenance and engineering for corrosion, refractory and scaffolding and insulation. Clients turn to Thorpe for reoccurring specialty services related to the maintenance of critical infrastructure assets operating in high-temperature and highly corrosive environments. From Fortune 500 companies to independent producers and EPC’s across oil & gas, chemical, power, pulp & paper, mining and other energy-intensive industries, Thorpe is a trusted partner for extending equipment lifecycles and increasing productivity for refineries, chemical, petrochemical and industrial plants.
Permico Founders, LLC
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Financial Restructuring
Permico Midstream is a development-stage midstream oil and gas company based in Houston, Texas. The Company is focused upon developing, constructing, and operating assets to transport and process natural gas liquids in Texas, as well as the domestic and international marketing of the end products.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cross-Border Transactions
Plasson USA is a full line manufacturer of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pressure pipe fittings from ½” to 65″ diameter and pressures up to 320 pound-force per square inch, and lower-pressure HDPE pipe up to 120″ in diameter under its Spirolite™ brand. The Company’s customers are distributors to industry, municipalities and commercial enterprises across North America. Following the acquisition, former parent company Plasson Ltd. will retain its core business distributing HDPE Electrofusion products throughout North America.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Business Services
Mergers & Acquisitions
Founded in 1988 and based in Houston, Texas, Power Plumbing is the largest plumbing-focused mechanical contractor serving multi-family builders throughout Texas. The Company has delivered best in class results, service, and value to customers for over 30 years while utilizing the latest technologies and offering a full range of capabilities that span the entire construction process.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Environmental & Sustainability
Mergers & Acquisitions
Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Baytown, Texas, EMSI is a leading environmental services company providing emissions leak detection and repair services. The Company designs and administers programs necessary for client compliance with a complex array of federal, state and local environmental regulations. EMSI employs more than 300 technicians within some of the largest refineries, petrochemical, natural gas processing, oil and gas pipeline, and specialty chemical plants in the United States. It serves more than 150 facilities in 38 states across the nation, with a leading presence in the Gulf Coast region.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Action Scaffold was founded in 1953 and operates as a leading provider of scaffolding rental equipment and services in its Southwest market. The Company brings industry leading experience on scaffolding products and safety, which has defined them as a top scaffold rental and erection business over the last 70 years. The Company understands the demands that scaffold dealers and contractors face, and accordingly provides its customers with quality products and services to meet stringent market requirements. Since 1953, Action Scaffold has built strong, long-lasting relationships in its region amongst industrial and commercial end users. As one of the founding members of the Scaffold & Access Industry Association, Action Scaffold continues to be a leader in the scaffold industry.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Founded in 1934 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, Griffin operates out of 11 locations across the country and is a leading provider of groundwater control solutions for large scale civil and infrastructure, industrial, power and commercial construction projects. With a legacy built around complex dewatering services, Griffin offers unique design, engineering, permitting and system installation capabilities with an extensive fleet of specialized pump equipment. Additionally, the Company provides a complete water management solution for its customers with its services, including highly technical water treatment system design, installation and management.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Based in New York and Texas, Flow Safe manufactures high quality and high-performance over-pressure protection solutions. Flow Safe’s experienced engineering and application staff are constantly developing unique and advanced OPP solutions for natural gas transmission and distribution, petroleum, chemical, power, food and beverage, marine and aerospace industries.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Environmental & Sustainability
Mergers & Acquisitions
TriStar Global Energy Solutions, one of the leading hydrocarbon cleaning and decontamination companies in the U.S., elected to divest two subsidiaries: TriStar PetroServ and Global Vapor Control (collectively referred to as TriStar Tank Services). TTS provides specialized services focused on technical tank cleaning and degassing in refineries and midstream facilities in the Gulf Coast and throughout the United States.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
Manufacturers and sellers of disposable setting tools, power charges, and igniters used in the completion of oil and gas wells.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cross-Border Transactions
W&W is a leading provider of production infrastructure-related services to oil and gas producers operating in the Permian Basin. The Company operates through two primary divisions: (1) Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (“MRO”) services, and (2) Pipeline Installation and Maintenance. W&W’s MRO division provides in-the-field, routine maintenance, monitoring, and inspection of production-related equipment, well-sites and pipelines that is required throughout the entire life cycle of a well. Additionally, W&W’s MRO division provides production facility construction, including the installation of tank batteries and compressor stations as well as their routine upgrades and expansions. The Company’s Pipeline division installs small diameter flexible and polyethylene pipelines, primarily for oil and gas gathering projects, well hookups and water transportation. Additionally, the Pipeline division provides ongoing retrofitting and maintenance services. W&W is headquartered in Odessa, Texas with additional facilities in Midland, TX, Monahans, TX and Carlsbad, NM.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Environmental & Sustainability
Mergers & Acquisitions
Tanknology is the largest provider of environmental compliance testing and inspection services for retail fuel providers in the United States. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, the Company services more than 50,000 petroleum fueling and storage facilities per year, offers more than 30 compliance-related service offerings and holds 22 patents for leak detection and tank monitoring technology. Internationally, Tanknology licensees span more than 30 countries, providing services to the largest petroleum operators in the world.
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Trinity Steel is a leading provider of structural steel fabrication services to the petrochemical, energy, diversified chemical, power, commercial construction and engineering industries. Headquartered in Trinity, Texas, the Company is one of the largest fabricators in the Gulf Coast region. The Company’s fabrication services include the cutting, drilling, welding, punching, burning and shearing of structural steel beams and plates.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Environmental & Sustainability
Mergers & Acquisitions
Founded in 1979 and headquartered in Seattle, Global is an international leader in the marine services industry with decades of experience managing complex, critical, and technical projects in and around the water. Operating in some of the most challenging environments, the Company’s skilled and seasoned professionals offer clients five core services: marine construction, casualty response, environmental services, commercial diving, and energy services. The Company has six locations in the western U.S. and serves clients both domestically and abroad. Global will continue to operate under its current brand as a wholly-owned subsidiary of MER.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Calculated Controls provides project control solutions and project management personnel to owners of industrial facilities, such as refineries and petrochemical plants, to assist in managing turnarounds and other major projects. The Company’s trained professionals include project controls managers, field planners, schedulers, cost engineers and similar professionals. Calculated Controls offers these resources on a temporary, as-needed basis.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Raising Capital
Renegade Holding Company, LLC (dba Renegade Well Services and Renegade Automation, collectively “Renegade” or the “Company”) is a leading provider of recurring wellhead production and infrastructure services, operations and maintenance employment services, and automation services to blue-chip oil and natural gas producers. The Company operates in the nation’s most established oil and natural gas fields including the Eagle Ford, Permian, Barnett, Bakken, DJ, Utica, and Mid-Continent basins. Renegade provides essential above-ground maintenance services for oil and natural gas well-sites, as well as the associated production gathering facilities and pipeline infrastructure. The Company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Granbury, Texas, with additional field operations in Dilley, Godley, Odessa, and San Angelo, Texas as well as Canton, Ohio, and Hobbs, New Mexico.
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Frontier Terminal is a 245 acre property located near Tulsa and the Port of Muskogee with over 4,300 feet of frontage on the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. The property consists of a 348,000 barrel liquid asphalt blending, storage and distribution facility, a barge dock terminal and transloading facility with BNSF mainline rail running through the property. At the time of the sale, nearly 200 acres of the property remained available for further development.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Environmental & Sustainability
Mergers & Acquisitions
Perennial, a provider of environmental consulting and inspection services, specializes in the preparation of environmental documents that comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and other federal, state, and local environmental laws and regulations. The Company’s capabilities include complete surveys and evaluations for biological and physical resources, cultural resources, and other environmental studies and inspections essential to ensuring environmental compliance. Perennial’s team of biologists, scientists, toxicologists, and environmental professionals provides technical environmental solutions and management with fresh perspectives and unparalleled efficiency.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Specialty Distribution
Mergers & Acquisitions
Founded in 2005, PitStop is a leading distributor of heating oil, propane, kerosene and motor fuels serving retail and commercial customers throughout Southern Maine. The fastest growing portion of its fuel distribution business is its propane delivery segment, driven largely by the continued customer trend of converting from heating oil to propane. The Company delivers its services using its modern truck fleet and its network of bulk fuel terminals strategically-located throughout the Maine Lakes Region. The cold temperatures, high number of degree days and a lack of pipeline infrastructure make this one of the most attractive route-based heating oil and propane delivery markets in the country.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Founded in Midland, Texas in 2004, Peregrine Pipeline Company, L.P. is a full service natural gas pipeline company specializing in midstream operations. Peregrine provides gathering and transportation of natural gas as well as compression, dehydration and marketing services.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
JAG Energy Holdings is a Texas LLC that manufactures Automatic Custody Transfer (“ACT” or “LACT” when at the lease level) units and provides meter proving, vacuum, and other midstream related services. JAG Energy Holdings LLC owns 100% of JAG Energy USA Midstream, JAG Tanking of Texas, and Mission Measurements.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Specialty Distribution
Mergers & Acquisitions
Founded in 1980, GB Tubulars is a leading distributor of Oil Country Tubular Goods and a provider of proprietary specialty connections. The Company’s key customers are major and large independent exploration and production companies and other tubular good distributors in the Gulf of Mexico. GBT’s tubular goods and proprietary specialty connections are used in all types of drilling operations with increasing use in U.S. land-based shale plays.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Sand Products Wisconsin operates a frac sand mine with mineral rights to more than 50 million tons of Northern White sand reserves across 1,100 acres in western Wisconsin. SPW’s wet and dry sand processing plants and unit train load-out facilities have an annual capacity of up to 1.4 million tons.
Strox Systems
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Screen Logix, a subsidiary of AXON Pressure Products, is a leading provider of aftermarket shale shaker screens used in the drilling of oil and gas wells. Shale shakers are part of the drilling fluid filtration system employed on rigs to remove solids from fluids as they return to the surface and are processed for re-use or disposal. The company manufactures replacement screens for nearly every make and model of shale shaker, and supplies manufacturers of solid control systems with private label screens.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Alternative Well Intervention was founded by veterans of the well servicing industry in December 2012 to design, build and operate a best-in-class HWU optimized for offshore use in the GOM.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Alternative Well Intervention was founded by veterans of the well servicing industry in December 2012 to design, build and operate a best-in-class HWU optimized for offshore use in the GOM.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
MML Capital Partners is a leading transatlantic independent investment firm with over $2 billion invested in more than 100 platform businesses since 1988. MML backs leading management teams in companies that require capital for expansion, acquisitions, refinancing or recapitalizations. MML brings international resources and perspective to each market it serves through its investment teams in the UK, France and United States.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Headquartered in Inola, Oklahoma, ParFab, which is comprised of ParFab Industries, LLC and ParFab Field Services, LLC, is a provider of components and field services for heat and pressure intensive applications related to the downstream energy infrastructure markets. ParFab focuses on steel fabrication, ASME coil welding, piping, refractory and industrial coatings services from its fabrication facility, and its field services division focuses on process heater erection, revamp / re-tubing, and other activities stemming from the downstream new capital and recurring maintenance cycles.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Specialty Distribution
Mergers & Acquisitions
Based in Midland County, TX, Cactus Fuel is a leading provider of specialized fuel services to operators and drillers in remote locations in the Permian basin. Cactus Fuel was founded in 2012 by a management team with extensive oilfield service experience.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Raising Capital
Founded in 2000, Gibson Applied Technology & Engineering, Inc. (GATE) is a privately held consulting and engineering firm based in Houston, Texas that serves clients in the deepwater offshore oil and gas industry. GATE was established as a consultancy specializing in the areas of materials selection and corrosion control, subsequently expanding its capabilities to include flow assurance, commissioning & startup, water injection systems design, subsea engineering, operations readiness, chemical systems engineering and regulatory compliance.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Software & Tech-Enabled Services
Buy-Side Advisory
RigNet is a leading global provider of managed remote communications, telecoms systems integration and collaborative applications dedicated to the oil and gas industry, focusing on offshore and onshore drilling rigs, energy production facilities and energy maritime vessels. RigNet provides solutions ranging from fully-managed voice and data networks to more advanced applications that include video conferencing and real-time data services to over 1,100 remote sites in fifty countries on six continents, effectively spanning the drilling and production industry. RigNet is based in Houston, Texas.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Alternative Well Intervention was founded by veterans of the well servicing industry in December 2012 to design, build and operate a best-in-class HWU optimized for offshore use in the GOM.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Infinity is a leading U.S. industrial construction and maintenance contractor with in-house fabrication facilities providing services to the refining, petrochemical and gas processing industries. A family-owned business established in 1952, Infinity is headquartered in Clute, Texas, with six additional locations along the Texas Gulf Coast. The existing management team will continue to lead the business, which has approximately 2,500 personnel. Infinity currently has gross assets of around $92 million and is forecast to generate EBITA of $26 million in 2015.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cross-Border Transactions
T&T Engineering is a leading provider of proprietary products and engineering services to the energy industry. Products include state-of-the-art drilling structures and drilling equipment that deliver superior operational safety, reductions in non-productive work, greater reliability and improved interface with other rig equipment and operations.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Buy-Side Advisory
Headquartered in Houston, T-Rex is a leading fabricator of complex subsea equipment packages for use in the offshore oil and gas production industry. Its products include custom designed subsea production modules for managing the flow of oil and gas from offshore wells. T-Rex’s projects are deployed globally across the Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, Central and South America, and the North Sea.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Rocaceia is a leading provider of oilfield accommodations and related equipment and services to drilling rig operators and well completion companies in the Eagle Ford shale formation of south Texas. The company leases these assets to clients under the Quality Lease Service, LLC (“QLS”) and Quality Lease Rental Service, LLC (“QLRS”) names.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cross-Border Transactions
QIC is a leading testing, inspection and certification (“TIC”) company serving major and independent operators as well as manufacturers in the energy industry. The Company provides highly trained and experienced quality field inspectors, consultants, engineers and specialists to deliver customers mission-critical, quality surveillance and ensure asset integrity. Founded in 1990, and headquartered in Houston, Texas, the Company has expanded its presence globally with locations in Louisiana, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Malaysia.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Based in Houston, TriStar is the parent company of three industry leading specialty contractors: TriStar PetroServ™, Zyme-Flow® Decon Technology, and Global Vapor Control™. TriStar operates on a global basis and provides its customers with innovative and proven solutions for tank cleaning, waste processing, process unit decontamination, emissions control and degassing. These services are critical to the maintenance and operating efficiency of energy infrastructure in the downstream and midstream sectors, including refineries, petrochemical plants and midstream terminals.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Headquartered in Brenham, TX, Artex and its subsidiaries are a leading designer and manufacturer of custom wireline trucks as well as downhole tools and surface products. In addition to the core offering of custom wireline trucks, the Company performs comprehensive refurbishment services for both Artex and third party trucks. Artex’s trucks and associated products and services are critical to the production process and often designed to meet specific functional and geographic requirements for each customer, which have predominately been wireline service providers.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cross-Border Transactions
FHE USA LLC (“FHE” or the “Company”) designs, manufactures, pressure tests, certifies, assembles and distributes surface and subsurface wireline equipment primarily for the North American oil and gas industry. FHE markets new high-pressure equipment and expendables as well as delivers superior service and response time to provide customers with all the necessary tools and provisions to ensure economical and efficient wireline operations. The Company is headquartered in Fruita, Colorado with an additional location in San Antonio, Texas.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Universal Wellhead Services, LLC designs, sells, installs and maintains wellhead equipment and ancillary products, including valves, manifolds, and frac trees, as well as provides repair, remanufacture, and related field services for its customers in the oil and gas industry. UWS has in-house machine capabilities to quickly and efficiently repair existing customer owned wellheads. UWS has offices and full service shops based in Texas, Louisiana and Ohio.
Wyatt Energy, LLC & Whelk Bay Resources, LLC
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Raising Capital
Nautilus is a newly formed private firm specializing in direct investments in oil and gas assets located in the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico. The Company’s principal strategy for growth is to seek out quality, producing or exploratory oil and gas properties, which leverage the Company’s technical expertise. The Nautilus executive team averages over 30 years of experience and is led by CEO Stuart Burbach.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Headquartered in Houston, Affiliated Power Services, LP is the holding company for a portfolio of companies focused on providing industrial, commercial and marine repair and maintenance services throughout the Southwest United States. With more than 70 years of industry experience, an immaculate safety record, and full service capabilities, APS has established itself as an industry leader in its core service categories, including value-added turnkey industrial and commercial boiler services as well as marine vessel repair and maintenance. The Company maintains locations in Dallas, Houston, and Corpus Christi, Texas, as well as an independent shipyard facility in Channelview, Texas.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Renegade (or the “Company”) is a leading provider of recurring wellhead production and infrastructure services, operations and maintenance employment services, and automation services to blue-chip oil and natural gas producers. The Company operates in some of the nation’s most established and prolific oil and natural gas fields including the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford, Barnett, and Utica shale regions. Renegade provides essential above-ground maintenance services for oil and natural gas wellsites, as well as the associated production gathering facilities and pipeline infrastructure. The Company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Granbury, Texas, with additional field operations in Dilley, Godley, Decatur, Stockdale, Odessa, Carrizo Springs and San Angelo, Texas, as well as Canton, Ohio. The Company will continue to be led by its current management team.
Undisclosed Buyer
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Terra Renewal rents frac tanks and half pits to oilfield service providers and operators of oil and gas wells. Its tanks are typically used to store water used in the completion of new wells and capture water and fluids flowing back from the wells as oil and gas is extracted, and are lined to resist the corrosive effect of these liquids. Terra Renewal’s tanks are located in major oil and gas production areas of Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas. The Company owns 248 wheeled frac tanks with 500 barrel capacity and 48 half-pits, which are essentially similar but smaller tanks used in the collection of used production fluids in lieu of earthen pits or other temporary, less environmentally friendly solutions.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Headquartered in Giddings, Texas, L.F. Manufacturing, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of fiberglass molded products primarily used in the oilfield, industrial and wastewater infrastructure industries. The Company utilizes state-of-the-art chop and filament winding equipment to produce high quality fiberglass products. LFM’s fiberglass reinforced plastic composite materials are a key technological alternative to steel or concrete based similar products, providing both product durability and longevity.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Headquartered in League City, Texas, CertifiedSafety Inc. is a leading provider of specialized safety and productivity services for major plant events such as turnarounds, shutdowns, outages, ongoing maintenance and capital projects. The Company serves the chemical, refining and power industries throughout the United States.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
QCS designs, engineers, manufactures and delivers deepwater and shallow water connector solutions to the subsea pipeline industry in the U.S. and internationally. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, the Company supplies products for pipeline construction, tie-ins, repairs, abandonments, hot taps and re-routes.
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Griffin is a national provider of groundwater control solutions with a breadth of integrated products and services tailored to meet the complex challenges of large-scale construction dewatering and groundwater control projects. Griffin was founded in 1934 in Bronx, New York as a family owned and operated business and has since grown to become the established leader in the groundwater control industry in North America.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, EnerSafe is a turnkey provider of hydrogen sulfide safety services and equipment rental to oil and gas operators throughout the Southwest.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Headquartered in Midland, Texas, TC is a leading provider of safety services, safety equipment and consulting services to the oil and gas industry. Mike Cunningham, President of TC, expressed his optimism.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Headquartered in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Leak Detection and Repair and Environmental Analytics divisions of Energy Maintenance Services USA, Inc. offers inspection and monitoring, leak detection, sampling and analysis, and information management to the petroleum refining, gas processing, chemical, and pulp and paper industries throughout the United States. LDAR provides its services at more than 140 customer facilities in 23 states across the United States, with a leading presence in the Gulf Coast region. The divisions will continue to be run by their existing management teams.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, with additional manufacturing facilities located in Casper, Wyoming and Bogota, Colombia, Teton Buildings (“Teton” or the “Company”) is one of the largest U.S. manufacturers and a leading global provider of customized remote workforce and semi-permanent facilities. The Company primarily supplies facilities to the energy exploration and production, energy infrastructure and pipeline, construction, mining and disaster relief markets.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Alliance Drilling Fluids, LLC (“ADF” or the “Company”) is a leading independent provider of drilling fluids, proppants and related services primarily in the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale markets. The Company is headquartered in Midland, Texas and was founded in 2004. ADF Co-founder and CEO Shawn Savage has joined Newpark to continue running the business in the Permian Basin.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Core is a supplier of highly engineered rubber components and supply chain solutions to a variety of end-use markets including, but not limited to, energy, heavy truck and trailer, flow control, general infrastructure, waterworks, aerospace and marine. The Company has developed a particular expertise and reputation for supplying large format, tight tolerance parts for mission critical applications in products such as blowout preventers, nuclear facilities, dams and bridges. Core will continue to be led by its existing management team.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Southwest Meridian Corporation is a leading provider of construction, maintenance and repair services for the petrochemical, chemical, refining and power industries in the Gulf Coast region. Headquartered near Houston, Texas, the Company specializes in providing refractory, fireproofing, acid and corrosion resistant linings and coatings, grouting and other maintenance services.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Rose is a rough, semi-finish and finish machine shop supplying mission critical parts to the oilfield, midstream oil and gas, petrochemical and related industries. The Company operates more than 75 CNC machines out of its 110,000 square foot facility and employs approximately 125 people. The Company’s significant investment in superior equipment, its proprietary machining techniques and highly experienced management team, enabled Rose to become a market leader in the machining industry. Founder and CEO Richard Rose will continue to run the operations of the business and has joined EGI as President of Ellwood Rose Machine.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Buy-Side Advisory
Trinity is a leading provider of steel fabrication services to the petrochemical, energy, diversified chemical, power, and construction and engineering industries. The Company’s fabrication services include the cutting, drilling, welding, punching, burning and shearing of structural steel beams and plates.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Victory designs, engineers, manufactures and services boilers, fired packaged boilers, waste heat boilers, and heat recovery steam generators and related equipment utilized in a variety of end markets, including power generation, bio-renewable, oil sands, petrochemical, district heating, education and healthcare. The Company manufactures from its two locations in Collinsville and Cushing, Okla., and serves customers primarily in North America. Founder and CEO, John Viskup will remain a significant shareholder and continue to run the Company.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Founded in 1979, RWI is a leading provider of wellhead production and upstream infrastructure services to blue-chip oil and natural gas producers in the Permian Basin, one of the nation’s most established and productive oil sources. The Company provides essential above-ground maintenance services for oil and natural gas well-sites, as well as the associated production gathering facilities and pipeline infrastructure. RWI is headquartered in Midland, TX with additional operations in Monahans, TX and Hobbs, NM. The Company will continue to be led by its existing management team.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Based in Houston, DOYLES is a leading manufacturer of pressure control equipment to the onshore oil and gas exploration and production industry. The Company is an API certified manufacturer of valves, blowout preventers, choke and kill manifolds, gauges, flanges, replacement parts and other related equipment.
$20,000,000
Energy Telecom Investment, LLC & Affiliates
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Software & Tech-Enabled Services
Raising Capital
TEN is deploying wireless data networks to cover the oil and gas producing regions of the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale, using the latest available fourth-generation Long-Term Evolution (“4G LTE”) communications technology over exclusively licensed 700 MHz and AWS spectrum. The Company’s network will provide oilfield communications capabilities that are faster and more reliable than existing satellite and private radio network solutions at substantially lower prices. The implementation of this network will finally enable the energy industry to fully and cost-effectively realize the long-anticipated efficiencies in centralized monitoring, reporting, troubleshooting and mobile communications offered by the “Digital Oilfield.” TEN’s service will replace existing technologies and, due to its attractive price point, greatly expand the addressable market. Applications include remote drilling data collection and analysis, real-time reporting of well production and equipment performance, centralized expert analysis and troubleshooting, mobile connectivity for field operations, including oilfield services providers, site access control and security monitoring, and Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) and video conferencing applications. Founded in 2010 by telecommunication industry veterans, TEN commenced initial network operations in Andrews County, TX in August 2011.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Specialty Distribution
Mergers & Acquisitions
Buy-Side Advisory
Thorpe Products Company is a leading fabricator and distributor of a comprehensive range of industrial, commercial, and mechanical insulation and related products to end-markets including the petrochemical, refining, utility and commercial construction industries. Founded in 1985, Thorpe Products has extensive experience working with customers on a wide array of maintenance and capital projects.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Sharewell is a recognized leader in providing directional services, equipment and technology to the oil and gas industry, offering complete, project-specific, directional and performance drilling systems from one quality source. Sharewell’s proprietary Electro-Trac™ EM MWD System is industry-leading technology ideally suited to facilitate measurement-while-drilling, well-logging, and other real-time downhole operations associated with oil and gas exploration. The Company employs this technology in providing directional drilling services. These services supply a full range of professionals and equipment required to plan and execute the directional drilling segment of a wellbore, including directional drillers, measurement-while-drilling equipment and drilling motors.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Located in Katy and Ingleside, Texas, SSCI is a leading provider of engineering, procurement, and construction service offerings to the oil and gas production industry, primarily engaged in the construction of oil and gas production facilities for the worldwide offshore market. From its strategically-located manufacturing facility in Ingleside, Texas, the Company executes major projects through its ability to deliver high quality, customized solutions to exploration and production companies. SSCI’s one-stop, turnkey design, fabrication and construction services distinguish it as one of the leading providers in its industry.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
DWL is a leading independent provider of mud logging services, equipment, personnel and technology to the onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration and production industry. The Company serves major, national and independent oil and gas exploration companies in the Gulf of Mexico, the Eagle Ford, Haynesville and Marcellus shale plays and other surrounding regions. Additionally, DWL has a market-leading presence in supporting deepwater drilling operations, both domestically and internationally. The Company is based in Reserve, LA, with additional offices in Corpus Christi, TX and Eighty Four, PA.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Located in Houston, Texas, Houston Services Industries, Inc. (“HSI”) engineers, manufactures and services blower systems utilized in multiple applications including water treatment, refining, landfill gas extraction, dust collection, pneumatic conveying, mining and other industrial applications. HSI’s extensive portfolio of proprietary technology and systems-based approach to the market have enabled the Company to develop one of the industry’s most advanced multistage centrifugal blower and high speed turbo blower product offerings.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, EA Services Inc., is a leading provider of pipe and infrastructure maintenance and repair services to a diverse set of industrial end markets, including refining, petrochemical, power generation and civil infrastructure. The Company’s products and services ensure and restore structural integrity for all types of piping and infrastructure, with a focus on those operating in highly corrosive, high-temperature and high-pressure environments.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Software & Tech-Enabled Services
Mergers & Acquisitions
Merrick Systems, Inc. is a market leader in providing industrial information technologies for the upstream and midstream oil and gas industry. Recognized for its industry expertise and innovative technologies, Merrick is committed to delivering best-of-breed solutions to improve production operations, help oil and gas companies extend the life of their assets, lower lifting costs, increase production and optimize operations. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Merrick is establishing a global infrastructure to sell, implement and support its technologies.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Business Services
Mergers & Acquisitions
Purvin & Gertz Inc. provides technical, commercial and strategic advice globally to clients in the crude oil, petroleum refining, natural gas, natural gas liquids, petrochemical and power generation industries and has become a preferred source for key energy market information, in-depth analysis and forecasts for supply, demand and pricing of energy products. Purvin & Gertz offers subscription-based research, analysis and consulting services involving short-term and long-range trends in supply, demand, trade, prices and margins in all aspects of the energy business.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Specialty Distribution
Mergers & Acquisitions
Buy-Side Advisory
PSS, headquartered in Houston, Texas, is one of the largest independent providers of industrial products and services to the domestic oil and gas transmission industry. PSS stocks and distributes one of the industry’s most comprehensive industrial and safety product offerings.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Environmental & Sustainability
Mergers & Acquisitions
Headquartered in Austin, Texas since its formation more than 25 years ago, Flare Industries is an industry leader in the design, manufacture and installation of combustion and pollution control technology and equipment. Through its offices in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and Singapore, Flare delivers high-quality flare systems, thermal oxidizers and ignition systems to clients in a range of industries worldwide. Flares are devices which burn, combust, or oxidize industrial gaseous wastes in a safe, controlled and efficient manner.
$29,250,000
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
Strike LLC is a diversified provider of integrated infrastructure services, including pipeline integrity, maintenance, repair and construction services for customers in the midstream energy industry. The company operates from its 12 field offices located across Texas and Louisiana. Strike has developed an industry-leading reputation for its superior pipeline testing capabilities and performs hundreds of government-mandated pipeline integrity tests each year.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Pasadena, Texas, Ventech is the global leader in plant relocation and the design and construction of modular refineries. The company’s unique methodology integrates design, fabrication and shipment of its modular refineries enabling operators to dramatically accelerate construction timelines and achieve significant cost savings. The company has offices in Texas, Turkey, Moscow and the Philippines.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Pat’s P&A, headquartered in Bishop, Texas, is a leading provider of onshore plugging and abandonment services to the oil and gas exploration and production industry in south Texas. The company also offers electric wireline, coil tubing and cement mixing and pumping services.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Specialty Distribution
Buy-Side Advisory
Thorpe Products Company fabricates and distributes a comprehensive range of industrial insulation and related products to end-markets including the petrochemical, refining, utility and commercial construction industries. Thorpe Products has 10 branches located in Houston, Texas; Dallas, Texas; Beaumont, Texas; Corpus Christi, Texas; Gonzalez, Louisiana; Lake Charles, Louisiana; Mobile, Alabama; St. Louis, Missouri; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Memphis, Tennessee.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
The Western Company of Texas, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, is a leading provider of high-capacity overland water transfer services to the domestic oil and gas exploration and production industry. The Company operates principally in the Bakken, Barnett, Eagle Ford, Granite Wash and Haynesville shale plays. Western was founded in 2001 by Dale and Linda Behan and has grown to become one of the largest water transfer companies in the oil and gas industry.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Delcor USA, Inc. (“Delcor”) fabricates industrial steel structures and complex subsea equipment packages for use in the offshore oil and gas production industry. The company’s products include subsea production modules for managing the flow of oil and gas from offshore wells, production platform living quarters and other buildings, and topside structures. Delcor has been a leader and innovator in these fields since the advent of deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico more than 25 years ago.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Specialty Distribution
Mergers & Acquisitions
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Pipeline Supply & Service Company is one of the largest independent domestic providers of industrial products and services to the domestic oil and gas transmission industry. Furthermore, PSS stocks and distributes one of the industry’s most comprehensive and largest industrial and safety product offerings.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, EA Services, Inc. is a leading provider of pipe and infrastructure maintenance and repair services to a diverse set of industrial end markets including the refinery, petrochemical, power generation and civil infrastructure markets. Service lines include leak sealing, hot tapping and line stopping, composite wrapping, trenchless pipe rehabilitation, field machining, bolt tensioning and concrete restoration and repair.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Headquartered in Cleburne, Texas, HLI Energy Services, Inc. is an oilfield service company that provides well-site support and logistics services to oil and gas exploration and production companies operating in the Barnett, Haynesville, Marcellus and Eagle Ford shale regions.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Bayou Well Services provides well site support services for oil and gas companies operating in various climates throughout the United States. The company’s primary services center on workover/completion rig operations, water transfer services and frac tank rental.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Thorpe Corporation is the parent holding company for Thorpe Products Company, J T Thorpe Company and Thorpe-Sunbelt, Inc. Through its subsidiaries, the Company distributes specialty insulation, refractory and acid resistant masonry materials, and provides refractory maintenance, engineering and construction services primarily throughout the Gulf Coast region and also internationally. The Company serves a diverse customer base operating in the refining, petrochemical, alumina, utility and waste incineration industries among others. Thorpe has branch locations in Dallas, Texas; Beaumont, Texas; Corpus Christi, Texas; Gonzales (Baton Rouge), Louisiana; and a satellite office in Sulphur (Lake Charles), Louisiana.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Bayou Well Services provides well site support services for oil and gas companies operating in various climates throughout the United States. The company’s primary services center on workover/completion rig operations, water transfer services and frac tank rental.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Specialty Distribution
Mergers & Acquisitions
Founded in 1940 and headquartered in Roberts, Illinois, Hicks Oils & Hicksgas, Incorporated (“Hicksgas”) is a family-owned supplier of propane and water conditioning systems, operating 31 service centers, 15 satellite storage facilities and a fleet of 40,000 propane tanks throughout Illinois and Indiana. In addition, Hicksgas has completed 25 retail propane acquisitions since the current management team assumed operational leadership in 1989.
Mineral Trading Company, LLC
Senior Secured Structured Term Loan
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
Mineral Trading Company, LLC (“MTC”) is a leading U.S. coal supplier with mining, processing and disposal operations located in the Northern Appalachia region of Ohio. MTC primarily mines, processes and sells coal to electric, utilities, industrial and institutional end-users.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Financial Restructuring
Demay designs and manufactures multi-purpose oilfield pumps used for cementing, acidizing and fracturing oil and natural gas wells. The Company serves a global customer base that includes oil and gas drilling, well service and fabrication companies. Demay also offers replacement parts and repair / refurbishment services for its pumps.
Senior Secured Term Loan
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Raising Capital
Tulsa Power, headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, through its subsidiaries, is one of the leading manufacturers of specialty, proprietary, branded, material-handling equipment used in the manufacturing and handling of wire, cable, hose, pipe, tube and flexible materials. The Company’s products are sold to a variety of end markets, including energy, cable manufacturers and distributors, telecom and electric utilities. RadOil, based in Houston, Texas, offers proprietary spooling equipment specifically designed for offshore, deepwater drilling and production applications. RadOil’s largest product line is the umbilical reel, which handles cable on deepwater drilling vessels.
OVS Technologies
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Software & Tech-Enabled Services
Mergers & Acquisitions
Merrick is an established market leader in industrial information technology for the oil and gas industry, providing software solutions, electronics and associated professional services. The Company’s production and drilling technologies reduce costs and improve efficiencies, from back office to field operations and engineering tools. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Merrick has established a global infrastructure to sell, implement and support its products from offices around the world.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Specialty Distribution
Mergers & Acquisitions
Beta is a worldwide supplier of flow control products to the energy, transmission and infrastructure industries. In addition, Beta is recognized in the energy industry for its project management capabilities. The Company is headquartered in Houston, Texas with offices in The Netherlands, Mexico, Indonesia and Singapore.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Federal Flange is a leading manufacturer of high quality and precision engineered flanges and pipeline connections. The Company’s products are used globally in a wide range of energy infrastructure applications, including onshore and offshore crude oil and natural gas pipelines, refineries, petrochemical plants, natural gas processing facilities, oil and gas surface production facilities, LNG plants and offshore production platforms. Federal Flange has also developed a market-leading presence in the deepwater offshore oil and gas industry, where harsh and high pressure environments warrant only premier subsea connections with the highest yield strength. The Company will continue to be led by its current management team.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
ETS is a leading equipment management company, offering equipment rental, system sales, technical support and customer solutions to the marine and offshore industries. The Company is a one-stop resource for a wide array of acoustic survey, positioning and imaging equipment used in the offshore oil and gas industry with a focus on deeper marine construction applications, primarily in the Gulf of Mexico. ETS specializes in deepwater systems rated from 3,000 meters up to 5,000 meters.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Trinity Steel is a leading provider of structural steel fabrication services to the petrochemical, energy, diversified chemical, power and construction, and engineering industries. With operations throughout Texas, including its headquarters location in Trinity and additional facilities in Tomball and Lufkin, the Company is one of the largest fabricators in the Gulf Coast region with over 140,000 square feet of fabrication space. The Company’s fabrication services include the cutting, drilling, welding, punching, burning and shearing of structural steel beams and plates.
Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility
Senior Secured Term Loan A
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
With headquarters in Spring, Texas, Strike provides a variety of infrastructure services including pipeline integrity, maintenance, repair and construction to the midstream energy industry from its eight field offices across Texas. Strike has developed an industry-leading reputation for its superior pipeline testing capabilities and performs hundreds of government-mandated pipeline integrity tests each year.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Founded in 1996, CIMA is a full-service oil and gas marketing and producer services company.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Tetralene, a developer and manufacturer of specialized custom sealing components for the oil and gas industry based in Houston, Texas, manufactures custom high-performance thermoplastic and elastomeric components that range in diameter from 1/64″ to 72″. The Company’s products include custom spring energized seals as well as complete seal stack solutions for the most demanding applications and environments. Tetralene is a full-service supplier, providing mold design and material testing while producing a wide range of machined thermoplastic and custom molded elastomeric seals, packing and components for high temperature and/or high pressure environments.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Conservatek Industries, Inc. began in 1977 specializing in geodesic dome technology in the manufacture of lightweight, high-strength aluminum roof systems that have been put into service in a broad array of settings around the world. Today, some 5,000 roof systems later, the product line continues to evolve, meeting the clear-span cover and integrated roof system needs of a diverse worldwide customer base that includes petrochemical storage facilities, wastewater treatment plants, water storage facilities, bulk storage sites and architectural applications.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Specialty Distribution
Mergers & Acquisitions
Talen’s Marine and Fuel (“Talen’s” or the “Company”) is the largest privately-owned provider of marine fuel delivery services to the Louisiana and east Texas Gulf Coast. Chief Executive Officer Raymond Talen founded the Company in 1970 in Lake Arthur, Louisiana as a single-location provider of fuel and lubricants to the marine towing industry. From this beginning with a single tug boat and barge, the Company has developed into an integrated provider of midstream, dockside and land-based services that include delivery of fuel, lube, potable water and deck supplies, and collection for disposal of waste oil, water and trash.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Texas-based Sup-R-Jar LLC (“Sup-R-Jar” or the “Company”) makes drilling jars and related parts for the oil and natural gas industry. The company also rents tools to exploration and production companies for oil and gas wells located on land, in inland waterways and offshore. The deal value was $47,500,000.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Texas Honing, Inc. (THI) provides semi-finished engineered components for use in the drilling, completion and production of natural gas and oil. THI customers include oilfield service companies, specialty steel manufacturers, steel service centers, and machine shops. Located in Houston, Texas, the company performs value-added services to long steel products, including honing, boring, drilling, turning, machining and straightening.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Smith Equipment & Rental Services, Inc., (“Smith Equipment” or the “Company”) provides maintenance and construction services related to natural gas pipelines, gathering systems, well sites and compressor stations as well as equipment rental and vacuum and pressure truck services. The Company is headquartered in Carthage, Texas and operates throughout Eastern Texas, Western Louisiana and Northwest Arkansas.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
TNT Crane & Rigging (“TNT” or the “Company”) is a leading provider of manned hydraulic truck crane rental and associated rigging services. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, the Company provides a complete set of lifting services for large, complex industrial and construction projects via its fleet of more than 50 cranes ranging from 15 to 800 tons of capacity.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Bayou Tank Services, Ltd. (“Bayou Tank Services” or the “Company”) provides fluids management services to independent natural gas operators in the Southeast United States. The Company owns and operates a fleet of frac tanks, gas busters, winch trucks and vacuum trucks. It provides frac tank rentals and related services, water hauling services, and operates a saltwater disposal facility. Bayou Tank Services is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with additional offices in Dew and Henderson, Texas.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Twachtman, Snyder & Byrd, Inc. is a leading provider of well abandonment and decommissioning services to the international offshore oil and gas market. Based in Houston with field operations in Houma, Louisiana, TSB has extensive service capabilities in project management, contracting, consulting, and a host of related services. These services include assessing liability, acquisition and divestiture, and plugging the well to clearing the site and creating an artificial reef.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Houston-based VSC offers turnkey valve packages and systems for all facets of flow control operations, specializing in equipment and services for the coker industry. The Company also supplies integrated automation and controls technologies, products and services. VSC serves process industries worldwide, specializing in refineries, petrochemical plants and LNG operations.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Houston-based Seaboard International is a leader in the engineering, design, manufacture, repair and servicing of critical service oil and gas wellhead equipment. The Company’s high-pressure surface wellhead equipment and gate valves are used both onshore and offshore by major integrated and large independent oil and gas companies, primarily in the Gulf Coast region.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
National Energy & Trade Holding, LLC (“NET” or the “Company”) is an independent natural gas company acting as a marketer and a transport service provider through its pipeline network. The Houston-based company provides a wide range of services in the Gulf Coast, Midwest, Southeast and Northeast United States. Services include developing and operating pipelines, optimizing transportation, creating marketing and managing structured products and acquiring and marketing storage services. NET provides these natural gas marketing solutions and services to both producers and end use markets.
Business Services
Mergers & Acquisitions
Houston-based SEIS-Strat is a full-service provider of geological, geophysical and engineering consultants to the oil and gas exploration and production industry. The Company’s consultants provide geosciences consulting, on-site training, job placement and mentoring services to major and independent oil and gas companies worldwide.
Undisclosed Buyer
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
GulfStar Group announced that it acted as the financial advisor to Weatherford International Ltd. in arranging the sale of nine land drilling rigs to an undisclosed buyer. Weatherford International Ltd. is one of the world’s largest diversified upstream oilfield service companies with over $6.1 billion in annual revenues and over 30,000 employees in over 100 countries.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Buy-Side Advisory
MODEC, Inc. is a leading Tokyo, Japan-based provider of floating production facilities in the offshore oil and gas industry. The Company provides project management, engineering, procurement, construction, installation and operation services. FMC Technologies Floating Systems, Inc. develops and manufactures SOFEC turrets and mooring systems for floating production storage and offloading vessels and offshore marine loading systems.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Houston-based Altair is a leader in turnarounds and revamps for the refining, petrochemical and power industries. The Company is recognized as a premier specialty services company in Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit (“FCCU”) and Coker units (“Cokers”) turnarounds and revamps. Services also include: planning and management, distillation tower retrays and specialty packing, specialty welding services, ASME code welding, heater repair, boiler repair, pipe and vessel fabrication, and NOx and SOx system installations.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
OMNI Laboratories, Inc. was founded in 1983 as an oilfield service firm providing core analysis and reservoir evaluation services to the oil and gas industry. The Company specializes in the analysis of core samples retrieved from oil and gas wells. The data generated by the Company is used by oil and gas companies to determine the commercial viability of their oil and gas wells.
Sutton Ventures Group
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cinco Pipe & Supply was founded in 1976 as an OCTG distributor to the domestic oil and gas industry.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
The world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 80 countries with approximately 68,000 employees and serves more than 3 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential small molecules for life, matter and energy. They embody Air Liquide’s scientific territory and have been at the core of the company’s activities since its creation in 1902. The company offers industrial and medical gases, technologies and related services to customers in energy, industrial, electronics and healthcare markets.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Innova is a leading manufacturer of ruggedized printed circuit boards for the oilfield services industry and other technologies designed to operate in difficult environments.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Valkyrie Commissioning Services, Inc. was formed in 2000 to provide commissioning related services to oil and gas pipelines and process systems.
$7,100,000
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
Azura Energy Systems, Inc. designs and manufactures wellhead and gate valve products for the oilfield industry. The company offers API flange data studs and nuts, assemblies, bottom hole test adapters, bull plugs and nipples, casing hangers, casing heads and spools, crosses and tees, flow tees, reducer bushings, TCM stripper rubbers, tubing hangers and heads, and tubing head adapters, as well as flanges, adapters, packoffs, and steel fittings. The company serves exploration, drilling, and production companies.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Buy-Side Advisory
T.D. Williamson Inc. is a leading worldwide supplier of products, services, integrity inspection, and maintenance of pipelines, both onshore and offshore. Founded in 1920, the family-owned company has operations worldwide.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cross-Border Transactions
RIMCO Production Company Inc. is an oil and gas exploration and production company focusing on developing reserves in the Gulf Coast through the use of 3-D seismic.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Buy-Side Advisory
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Business Services
Mergers & Acquisitions
Parsons E&C Corporation (“PEC”) is an engineering and construction firm that provides services primarily to the oil and gas, refining, chemical and petrochemical, and power industries. The company has designed and constructed more than 250 gas processing plants, 600 chemical and petrochemical projects, and 370 power plants worldwide. It is a top designer and builder of modular facilities for refineries and process plants in remote areas and harsh environments. PEC’s services also include procurement and project management. GulfStar provided financial advisory services to the Board of Directors of PEC with regard to the proposed sale of the company to Australian-based Worley Group for $245.0 million.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Total Safety is a provider of integrated safety services and solutions for hazardous environments.
$32,500,000
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
Total Safety provides integrated industrial safety services, strategies, and equipment to oil and gas, industrial, and process industry customers in the United States and internationally.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Financial Advisory Services
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Advisory Services
EOTT Energy Corp.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Advisory Services
EOTT Energy Partners, L.P. is engaged in the purchasing, gathering, transporting, trading, storing and reselling of crude oil and natural gas liquids and related activities.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Advisory Services
EOTT Energy Partners, L.P. is engaged in the purchasing, gathering, transporting, trading, storing and reselling of crude oil and natural gas liquids and related activities.
$4,825,000
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
RIMCO Production Company Inc. is an oil and gas exploration and production company focusing on developing reserves in the Gulf Coast through the use of 3-D seismic.
Financial Advisory Services
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Advisory Services
Universal Seismic provides three-dimensional seismic data acquisition and processing services to the energy industry.
ECT Wind River ECT Powder River
Enron Midstream Services
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Buy-Side Advisory
Northern Border Partners, L.P. owns and manages natural gas pipelines and is engaged in the gathering and processing of natural gas.
Management
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Universal Compression, Inc. provides natural gas compression services and products to the natural gas industry.
Financial Advisory Services
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Advisory Services
The Hitox Corporation of America is a manufacturer of innovative pigments and extenders that are used in paints, coatings, plastics and a wide variety of other products. These pigments are marketed internationally by distributors located world‐wide, in about 35 countries. Other services include materials handling, custom milling and packaging.
$1,275,000,000
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Advisory Services
EOTT Energy Partners, L.P. is engaged in the purchasing, gathering, transporting, trading, storing and reselling of crude oil and natural gas liquids and related activities.
Financial Advisory Services
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Advisory Services
Daniel Industries, Inc. manufactures measurement devices, including orifice, turbine and ultrasonic meters, and electronic instruments used in conjunction with flow measurement products, and flow measurement systems used by transporters, refiners, and processors of oil and natural gas. The company was founded in 1930 and is based in Houston, Texas.
Hazco Services, Inc.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Buy-Side Advisory
Total Safety provides integrated industrial safety services, strategies, and equipment to oil and gas, industrial, and process industry customers in the United States and internationally.
$56,000,000
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
Total Safety provides integrated industrial safety services, strategies, and equipment to oil and gas, industrial, and process industry customers in the United States and internationally.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
CompuSeis, Inc. is a systems integration company, that designs, manufactures and markets seismic data acquisition and processing hardware and software products for seismic contractors. The company was founded in 1991 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Airgas Safety Services
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Buy-Side Advisory
Total Safety provides integrated industrial safety services, strategies, and equipment to oil and gas, industrial, and process industry customers in the United States and internationally.
Allservice Environmental, Inc.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Buy-Side Advisory
Total Safety provides integrated industrial safety services, strategies, and equipment to oil and gas, industrial, and process industry customers in the United States and internationally.
Energy Zone Holdings, Inc.
Energy Zone, Inc.
Consumer Products & Services
Mergers & Acquisitions
Buy-Side Advisory
Herlin Industries, Inc.
Catalyst Energy Services, Inc.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Buy-Side Advisory
Sabre Specialized Protection Services, Ltd.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Buy-Side Advisory
Total Safety provides integrated industrial safety services, strategies, and equipment to oil and gas, industrial, and process industry customers in the United States and internationally.
Herlin Industries, Inc.
$9,800,000
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
CogniSeis Development, Inc.
Tech-Sym Corporation
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Tri-Union Development Corporation
$12,500,000
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
Tri-Union Development Corporation is a crude oil and natural gas exploration and production company.
Enron Liquids Pipeline Company
Enron Gas Processing Company
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Buy-Side Advisory
Enron Liquids Pipeline Company was formed to own and operate a pipeline system carrying liquid fuels.
$15,500,000
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
Total Safety provides integrated industrial safety services, strategies, and equipment to oil and gas, industrial, and process industry customers in the United States and internationally.
$77,333,351
North Dayton Storage Company
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
HNG Dayton Storage provides warehousing and storage.
Digicon, Inc.
$15,000,000
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
Digicon, Inc. acquires seismic data used to search for oil and natural gas.
Reunion Resources
200,000 Shares
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
Financial Advisory Services
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Advisory Services
American Oilfield Divers is a leading provider of subsea services and related products, including diving, marine construction and environmental services to the offshore oil and gas industry.
$3,100,000
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
HNG Storage Company provides warehousing and storage.
GFS Company
Digicon, Inc.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
AVA International, Inc.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
GFS Data Sales Company, Inc.
Universal Seismic Associates, Inc.
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Plains Gulf Coast Limited Partnership
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Mergers & Acquisitions
Buy-Side Advisory
Plains Resources, Inc. engages in the acquisition, development, and exploitation of crude oil and natural gas. The company also has interests in the midstream activities of marketing, gathering, transportation, terminalling, and storage of crude oil. Plains Resources, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Houston, Texas.
$6,500,000
Energy, Power & Infrastructure
Raising Capital
Quality Tubing manufactures and provides coiled tubing products. Its products are used for downhole applications. The company was founded in 1976 and is based in Houston, Texas.