M&A Deal Summary

Forum Energy Technologies Acquires Cannon Services

On July 5, 2011, Forum Energy Technologies acquired manufacturer Cannon Services from SCF Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Forum Energy Technologies’ 1st transaction in the Manufacturing sector.
  • This is Forum Energy Technologies’ 2nd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Forum Energy Technologies’ 1st transaction in Texas.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2011-07-05
Target Cannon Services
Sector Manufacturing
Buyer(s) Forum Energy Technologies
Sellers(s) SCF Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Cannon Services

Stafford, Texas, United States
Cannon Services Ltd. is a manufacturer of protection systems for downhole completion control lines and cables.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Forum Energy Technologies

Houston, Texas, United States

Category Company
Founded 2005
Sector Energy Services and Equipment
Employees1,600
Revenue 739M USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION

Forum Energy Technologies is a provider of manufactured technologies and applied products to the energy industry, serving the subsea, drilling, completion, production, and flow control segments. Forum Energy Technologies was founded in 2005 and is based in Houston, Texas.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 22
Sector (Manufacturing) 1 of 3
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 5 of 19
State (Texas) 1 of 9
Country (United States) 2 of 13
Year (2011) 3 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-05-17 Specialist ROV Tooling Services

Insch, United Kingdom

Specialist ROV Tooling Services Ltd. is a provider of intervention tooling and custom engineered product solutions for the subsea intervention market.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-07-12 P-Quip

Kilbirnie, United Kingdom

P-Quip Ltd. is a manufacturer of proprietary mud pump fluid end assemblies. P-Quip’s products include mud pump rod systems, a liner retention system, valve cover retention systems, discharge strainer systems, valve seat pulling jack, special mud pump pistons, an automatic self- supporting mud bucket and a washpipe system.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

SCF Partners

Houston, Texas, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1989
PE ASSETS 2.0B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

SCF Partners Ltd. is a specialist private equity firm that targets investments in energy service and equipment companies with operations around the world. SCF provides both equity capital and strategic guidance over the life of the investment which typically lasts five years. The Firm's target investment size is $10 to $100 million. SCF looks to grow portfolio companies through internal growth initiatives and through acquisitions. SCF Partners was formed in 1989 and is based in Houston, Texas, with additional offices in Aberdeen, Scotland and Calgary, Alberta.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 14 of 23
Sector (Manufacturing) 4 of 4
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 3 of 8
State (Texas) 10 of 13
Country (United States) 10 of 14
Year (2011) 5 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-06-01 EnerMAX Services

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

EnerMAX Services Limited Partnership is a leading fluid management services provider offering fluid sales, storage, transport, pumping and recovery and disposal services from 26 service centres throughout Alberta, British Columbia and North Dakota U.S.A. EnerMAX has over 7 million liters of fluid storage capacity, 2,000 pieces of rental equipment and a fleet of over 450 tank, vacuum, hydro-vac, pressure, hot-oiler and steamer trucks. EnerMax stores fluid on a rental basis in its permanent tank farms, as well as offers for sale and distributes KCL, methanol, frac oil, hot and cold water and other oilfield chemicals. Additional EnerMAX services include crude and chemical transport, well batching, frac packages, drill site and tank rental, pipeline cleaning, tower, tank and equipment cleaning, pressure testing, fluid heating and fluid disposal services.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-02-01 Integrated Production Services

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Integrated Production Services dba IPS Canada, formerly of Complete Production Services. IPS offers a range of evaluation, completion and intervention services from nine locations throughout Western Canada and is one of Canada’s leading providers of multistage perforating services in horizontal wells. The company designs and runs perforating systems that are conveyed on casing, electric line, jointed tubing and coiled tubing and has one of the largest inventories of pressure control equipment in Canada.

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