Scott Energy Co

When AmeriGas left a Gloucester restaurant with no propane and a two-to-three-day wait, Scott Energy showed up within the hour with two full tanks — that's the kind of urgency people describe again and again on Google. The company delivers heating oil, propane, and diesel around Cape Ann and the North Shore, and also installs and services the heating and cooling systems it sells fuel for. Its own site traces the business back to 1946, when Ed Scott Sr. started what was then Scott Oil Co. with one used truck, and several reviewers say they've stuck with the company for 19 to 21 years. Reviewers keep coming back with the same kind of story: a driver knocking on the door before dawn to warn about black ice on a steep driveway, technicians walking another company's chimney crew through a boiler restart over the phone, trucks still running deliveries in the middle of a Saturday snowstorm. One 21-year customer credits the company's fuel quality and filtering as much as its round-the-clock service. The one sour note is a 2022 review describing pricing well above competitors and an oil burner left damaged after a paid tune-up. There's a wrinkle worth asking about directly: a 2022 trade-press report said Dead River Company, a larger New England fuel provider, had acquired Scott Energy's oil, propane and HVAC service business — yet the company's own site and reviews running through 2026 keep describing an independently run Gloucester operation. It's worth confirming exactly who you'd be contracting with before signing an auto-delivery or service agreement. For Cape Ann and North Shore homeowners who want a fuel and HVAC provider that answers emergencies fast, Scott Energy has the reviews to back that up — just nail down current ownership and get a firm price on tune-ups and delivery before committing.