Norwegian maker of medium-speed diesel and gas engines for ships and power plants (Bergen Engines AS, org. 997016238, Hordvikneset 125, 5108 Hordvik; 770 employees in the Norwegian register, almost 950 worldwide), with roots in Bergens Mekaniske Verksted of 1855, owned by Rolls-Royce from 1999 and by the UK’s Langley Holdings since 31 December 2021 after Norway blocked its sale to Russia’s TMH. Its Iberian subsidiary Bergen Engines Ibérica S.L. keeps a registered Lisbon branch (NIF 980460212) at Av. António Augusto de Aguiar 19, and the company names a sales manager and a service operations manager for Spain and Portugal. In 2026 it signed gas-genset agreements of about 750 MW with Crusoe and more than 500 MW with Liberty Energy for US AI data centres.
Bergen Engines builds medium-speed engines in the 1.4–12 MW class at Hordvikneset, north of Bergen, on a site whose history runs back to the Bergens Mekaniske Verksted shipyard of 1855; the diesel division dates from 1942 and delivered its first engines in 1946. The current platforms are the liquid-fuelled B32:40, B33:45 and C25:33 and their gas-fuelled counterparts B35:40, B36:45 and C26:33, sold to ferries, cruise ships, fishing and offshore vessels and, increasingly, to land-based power plants and microgrids. After two decades inside Rolls-Royce, and a 2021 sale to Russia’s Transmashholding that the Norwegian government stopped on security grounds, the company has belonged to the UK family-owned engineering group Langley Holdings since 31 December 2021; Langley said at the time that the group employed almost 950 people, more than 600 of them in Bergen, and the Norwegian register now lists 770 employees for Bergen Engines AS.
The Portuguese footprint is a service and sales presence rather than a factory. The Spanish subsidiary Bergen Engines Ibérica S.L. holds a registered branch in Lisbon, Bergen Engines Ibérica S.L. – Sucursal em Portugal (NIF 980460212), at Av. António Augusto de Aguiar 19, 4º, Sala B, filed under CAE 33190 (repair of equipment), and the company’s website names a sales manager and a service operations manager covering Spain and Portugal. The branch is the group’s local channel for sales, spare parts, planned maintenance and long-term service agreements in Portugal.
Bergen Engines is one of the few Nordic heavy-engineering manufacturers with a registered presence in Portugal, and its 2026 pivot towards on-site gas power for AI data centres is directly relevant to a country where Sines, Lisbon and Porto are attracting hyperscale campuses that cannot wait for grid connections. The Lisbon branch gives the company a legal base from which to bid for the same kind of grid-independent power packages in Iberia that it is now selling in the United States.
9 September 2026 — Company says it is strengthening its engagement with Mexico’s data-centre market, after the Norwegian embassy visited Bergen Engines Mexico in June.
3 June 2026 — Agreement with Crusoe for approximately 750 MW of gas-genset capacity for AI data centres in the United States — a contract of about 438 MW plus a 310 MW letter of intent.
8 May 2026 — Orders of more than 500 MW from Liberty Energy for on-site power at large US AI data-centre developments, combining Bergen gensets with Piller SHIELDX technology.
26 March 2026 — Bergen engines power what the company calls the world’s first long-distance cruise on biogas; on 8 June it reported that Hurtigruten’s MS Polarlys had passed 200,000 operating hours on Bergen engines.
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