Tracked deals
8
8 tracked deals across 2019-2025.
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Black Bay is a private equity firm that invests equity capital in partnership with entrepreneurial management teams building high-growth companies in the North American energy and chemical industries. The firm’s strategy targets companies with innovative products and services that help clients reduce costs, improve operations, and achieve ESG initiatives, driven by a partnership approach with portfolio management teams.
Tracked deals
8
8 tracked deals across 2019-2025.
Recent pace
0
0 tracked deals announced in the last 12 months.
Deal mix
Addon
4 addon · 2 growth capital · 1 buyout
Last 5 years
Supporting Data
Advanced Industrial Devices (AID), a portfolio company of Black Bay Energy Capital, has acquired Economy Control Systems (ECS), effective September 8, 2025. The acquisition adds ECS’s custom control-panel manufacturing and integration capabilities for water, wastewater, and industrial applications to AID’s platform, expanding AID’s presence in the water infrastructure and industrial dewatering markets on the U.S. East Coast.
Merichem Technologies, a portfolio company of Black Bay Energy Capital, has closed the acquisition of Chemical Products Industries (CPI), a specialty-chemicals maker based in Oklahoma City known for its SULFURTRAP adsorbents and industrial cleaning chemistries. The acquisition will integrate CPI's products into Merichem's Catalyst Division to expand its sulfur-treatment technology suite and strengthen service across markets including renewable fuels, biogas, midstream and downstream oil & gas.
Black Bay Energy Capital has made a growth capital investment in Capture Energy, LLC to accelerate production and distribution of Capture's patent-pending Capture Compressor for oil & gas production facilities. The funding will support scaling manufacturing and deployment to help operators meet emissions-reduction and regulatory requirements across U.S. production regions.
Advanced Industrial Devices (AID), a portfolio company of Black Bay Energy Capital, has acquired R.S. Integrators (RSI), a Pineville, North Carolina-based designer and manufacturer of industrial motor control panels and power distribution equipment. The add-on acquisition expands AID’s manufacturing and engineering capabilities and strengthens its presence in the southeastern U.S. water utility, wastewater and industrial dewatering markets.
Black Bay Energy Capital acquired Merichem Company's technology business — Merichem Process Technologies and Merichem Catalyst Products — which will be renamed Merichem Technologies and operated as a standalone sulfur-treating platform. Merichem Company will retain its caustic services business while the new platform will be led by former Merichem technology leaders to expand sulfur-treatment capabilities across energy and industrial end markets.
Black Bay Energy Capital, a private equity firm focused on the North American energy sector, has acquired a majority interest in Advanced Industrial Devices (AID) from Rock Island Capital. The investment will support AID's growth by expanding its manufacturing, engineering and service capabilities to meet rising demand for electric motors and variable frequency drive (VFD) control systems across oil & gas and industrial end markets.
ADS Services, a Black Bay Energy Capital portfolio company, has acquired the PowerChokes business unit from Expro Americas LLC. The deal expands ADS' geographic footprint, technology portfolio and asset base, enhancing its managed pressure drilling (MPD) and pressure-control offerings for onshore, offshore and international drilling markets.
Black Bay Energy Capital, an energy-focused private equity firm, has made an investment in Total Operations and Production Services (TOPS), a Midland, Texas-based provider of electric and gas-driven compression systems focused on gas lift applications in the Permian Basin. The partnership will provide capital and industry expertise to support TOPS' growth plans and expansion of its electric compression and automation capabilities.
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