Ridgetop launches energy services business

Ridgetop Capital Partners has launched a new business to capitalize on new opportunities from the energy sector downturn. Ridgetop Energy Services LP is an engineering consultancy and acquirer of companies that provide core services for the oil and gas sector, such as explosives, cementing wells and hydraulics. It is chiefly focused on the Marcellus and Utica shale plays, said Principal Martin Comini, who has worked in the energy sector for three decades for companies including Schlumberger Ltd.…