

PillarFour Capital Partners Announces Acquisition of The Bayou Companies’ Concrete Weight Coating and Anti-Corrosion Coating Businesses
NEWS RELEASE | June 05, 2026 PillarFour Capital Partners (“PillarFour”) is pleased to announce that it has completed its first investment out of its newest fund, PillarFour Capital Partners Fund III. Through a corporate carve-out, PillarFour is acquiring 100% of The Bayou Companies’ concrete weight coating and anti-corrosion coating businesses (“Bayou,” or the “Company”). Headquartered in New Iberia, Louisiana, Bayou is widely recognized as a market leader in offshore and ons


Q1 2026 Research Theme: Bottlenecks Slow Cloud-Based AI Data Centre Growth But Device-Embedded AI Is Powerful Alternative For Oil & Gas
Since we first wrote about AI some two years ago, the AI spend has gone through the roof – the hyperscalers are each spending substantially more than US$100 billion annually to build compute power! However, such explosive growth in AI spend has yet to be matched by sufficient on-grid or on-site power, gas-fired generation capacity included, coming onstream to address such AI-driven energy demand. Major multi-year supply chain and permitting bottlenecks are conspiring to delay


Metatek Group to launch first Toronto Stock Exchange technology IPO since 2021
Jameson Berkow > Capital Markets Reporter Metatek founder and CEO Mark Davies worked with his team to adapt full tensor gravity gradiometry to an airborne environment in order to create detailed underground maps by flying overhead with Metatek’s customized planes, such as this one. Canada is getting its first tech sector initial public offering in nearly five years. Shares of British geophysical services company Metatek Group Ltd. are due to start trading on the Toronto Stoc


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