ABERDEEN-BASED diversified energy service company Senergy said yesterday it had snapped up a business in America and was looking to make further acquisitions across the Atlantic.
The group’s Senergy Alternative Energy (SAE) division has just bought Maine-based SGC Engineering, which will become a subsidiary of newly established Senergy Alternative Energy Inc. The value of the deal was not disclosed.
SGC is a multidisciplinary engineering firm providing consultancy services to gas and electrical power transmission companies, power generation firms, municipalities, windpower developers, and utilities.
Founded in 2002, it employs about 70 people at five US offices providing electrical, civil-engineering, land-surveying and project-planning/management services to clients mostly in New England and the mid-Atlantic states.
SAE managing director Nial McCollam said: “This acquisition puts us collectively in an excellent position to capitalise on the extensive opportunities afforded within the energy sector in the coming months and years ahead.
“We’re now in a strong position to pursue further acquisition opportunities in North America. We already have a number of other prospects under discussion.”
Senergy, founded in 2005, employs nearly 500 people at offices in the UK, Norway, the Middle East, south-east Asia, Australia and now the US.
The group is looking to its new acquisition to help it to introduce its UK and European offshore-wind experience into North America and further develop a broader offering to power-sector clients across international markets.