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

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

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

NEWS RELEASE | February 20, 2026 PillarFour Capital Partners ("PillarFour"), is excited to announce that Paul Colucci, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, will be relocating from the firm’s London office to the United Arab Emirates as part of the company’s continued global expansion strategy. This leadership move reinforces PillarFour’s commitment to strengthening its presence in the Middle East, a region of growing strategic importance as both a leading global investment hub an

For this year-end letter, to mark the recent 10-year anniversary of the first commercial LNG cargo from the U.S. Gulf Coast, we had prepared a brief review of the U.S. LNG industry which, even after a decade of extraordinary growth, remains on course to double output by 2031, further extending U.S. dominance of the global LNG market. “Events, dear boy, events” 1 : however, at a stroke, the Middle East conflict has cut off 20% of global oil and LNG supply, a swift reminder of

Abstract Energy addition, not energy transition : Growing renewable energy capacity has served to expand the global energy supply rather than displace fossil fuel consumption, which has increased four years running despite the rapid expansion of renewable capacity. Significant upstream investment will be required: To address projected oil & gas demand growth and offset accelerating field decline rates, the IEA now estimates US$18.2 trillion of cumulative upstream investmen

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