For deal sourcers, staying current on private company activity is critical to spotting active buyers, tracking market trends, and uncovering emerging investment opportunities ahead of competitors.
In March alone, we added more than 1,800 new private company transactions, bringing the total to over 19,000 searchable deals across sectors, industries, and transaction types in Dakota Marketplace.
Inside Dakota Marketplace, you’ll find the transactions tab that provides structured, filterable data on deal types, values, and dates, while our editorial team curates daily updates through the dakota transactions newsletter, helping you cut through the noise and focus on what matters most.
To ensure the most comprehensive coverage of private market activity, Dakota monitors over 10,000 websites including company websites, newswires, and numerous third-party news providers to capture and verify transaction data as it happens.
Below are the top 10 energy transactions.
- Transaction Date: 3/30/2026
- Industry: Oil & Gas & Consumable Fuels
- Type: Buyout / Private Equity
- Transaction Value: $2.25B
Abu Dhabi-based global investment firm ePointZero, a subsidiary of Two Point Zero Group, agreed to acquire 100% of Traverse Midstream Partners from The Energy & Minerals Group for $2.25 billion, gaining strategic minority stakes in two key U.S. natural gas infrastructure assets. Those assets include Rover Pipeline, a large-scale interstate pipeline moving production from the Utica and Marcellus shale regions to markets across the Midwest, Gulf Coast, and Eastern Canada, and Ohio River System, a dry natural gas gathering system serving core Appalachian production areas.
- Transaction Date: 3/17/2026
- Industry: Oil & Gas & Consumable Fuels
- Type: Growth Equity
- Transaction Value: $1.29B
MidOcean Energy, an LNG platform formed and managed by EIG, raised more than $1.2 billion in initial equity commitments — including a $500 million anchor investment from Idemitsu Kosan — surpassing its $1.0 billion cover target as part of a broader capital formation program targeting up to $2 billion from new investors. The raise reflects sustained institutional appetite for long-term LNG exposure as MidOcean builds a diversified global portfolio that already includes stakes in LNG Canada, Gorgon LNG, Pluto LNG, QCLNG, and Peru LNG.
- Transaction Date: 3/10/2026
- Industry: Energy Equipment & Services
- Type: Acquisition / Merger
- Transaction Value: $840M
Atlas Energy Solutions signed a Global Framework Agreement with Caterpillar covering approximately 1.4 gigawatts of natural gas power generation equipment — representing roughly $840 million in purchase obligations — with orders scheduled from 2027 through 2029 to support its private grid development pipeline. The deal secures supply certainty as Atlas builds toward an owned-and-operated target of approximately 2.0 gigawatts by 2030, positioning the company to meet surging behind-the-meter power demand driven by AI infrastructure buildout and manufacturing reshoring.
- Transaction Date: 3/10/2026
- Industry: Oil & Gas & Consumable Fuels
- Type: Acquisition / Merger
- Transaction Value: $525M
Parex Resources agreed to acquire Frontera Energy's Colombian exploration and production assets for approximately $750 million in firm value — comprising $525 million in cash consideration plus the assumption of $390 million in debt — outbidding GeoPark by $125 million and creating the largest independent Colombia-focused E&P company with pro forma production of 80,000 to 88,000 boe/d. The deal, expected to close in Q2 2026, will transform Frontera into a pure-play infrastructure company while Frontera plans to distribute approximately $470 million of the net proceeds to shareholders.
- Transaction Date: 3/17/2026
- Industry: Oil & Gas & Consumable Fuels
- Type: Acquisition / Merger
- Transaction Value: $450M
Petrobras agreed to acquire Petronas' 50% stakes in the Tartaruga Verde and Espadarte Module III fields in Brazil's Campos Basin for $450 million, exercising its pre-emptive right to block Brava Energia from completing a previously announced purchase on similar terms. The deal restores Petrobras as sole owner and operator of assets currently producing approximately 55,000 barrels of oil per day via the Cidade de Campos dos Goytacazes FPSO.
- Transaction Date: 3/23/2026
- Industry: Energy Equipment & Services
- Type: Acquisition / Merger
- Transaction Value: $400M
Paratus Energy Services agreed to sell its Fontis drilling operations and jack-up fleet to Borr Drilling and CME for $400 million — structured as $148 million in cash at closing, $15 million in deferred consideration, and a $237 million seller's credit — completing a strategic pivot toward becoming a pure-play pipe-laying support vessel company. The deal caps Paratus' ownership of Fontis with approximately $760 million in total value distributed to stakeholders since 2022, while significantly reducing the company's operational risk exposure in Mexico.
- Transaction Date: 3/3/2026
- Industry: Energy Equipment & Services
- Type: Acquisition / Merger
- Transaction Value: $200M
Flowco Holdings completed its acquisition of Valiant Artificial Lift Solutions, a leading ESP systems provider in the Permian Basin, for approximately $200 million — funded through $170 million in cash drawn from its ABL facility and roughly 1.5 million shares of Class A common stock. The deal expands Flowco's artificial lift portfolio by adding ESP capabilities that support operators earlier in a well's producing life, deepening the company's full-lifecycle production optimization offering across the Permian and other key basins.
- Transaction Date: 3/3/2026
- Industry: Oil & Gas & Consumable Fuels
- Type: Venture
- Transaction Value: $132.1M
Iron Fuel Technology raised €113.8 million — comprising an €83.1 million Series B led by PGGM and a €30.7 million EU Innovation Fund grant — to build its first commercial iron fuel production facility targeting industrial heat decarbonization at scale. The Dutch cleantech company aims to be operational by 2029, with the facility expected to deliver approximately 340 GWh of decarbonized industrial heat annually and avoid more than one million tonnes of CO₂ emissions over its 15-year lifetime.
- Transaction Date: 3/16/2026
- Industry: Energy Equipment & Services
- Type: Venture
- Transaction Value: $44.1M
GA Drilling secured $44.1 million — comprising $24.7 million in fresh capital and $19.4 million converted from a prior SAFE — led by TomEnterprise, the investment platform of former EQT CEO Thomas von Koch, to commercially deploy NexTitan, its autonomous downhole anchoring and drive system designed to make deep geothermal drilling economically viable. Following a successful field validation in Norway delivering 32,000 lbf of confirmed output, the company is advancing commercial drilling engagements with geothermal developers and oil and gas operators across multiple geographies in 2026.
- Transaction Date: 3/30/2026
- Industry: Energy Equipment & Services
- Type: Venture
- Transaction Value: $6.2M
TerraSpark, a European startup developing space-based solar energy, raised €5 million in pre-seed funding led by Daphni and Sake Bosch to advance radio frequency-based wireless energy transmission technology ahead of planned orbital deployment. The company, co-founded by a former ESA Solaris program manager, is taking a ground-first commercialization approach — targeting industrial pilot applications and a 2027 orbital technology demonstrator before its first space-to-Earth power transmission planned for 2028.
At Dakota, we understand how important it is to stay current on deal activity as it happens. That’s why our editorial team continuously monitors the news for real-time updates on platform investments, add-ons, divestitures, and more to deliver daily highlights straight to your inbox through our transactions newsletter.
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