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Title: Compression needs change with market

Abstract

Gas movement has changed. Gathering has changed. Operators concentrate their best resources on the core business of producing natural gas. These factors have created changes in the way compression affects production. From the 1960s into the early 1990s, Knox Western, Ariel and Gemini left their imprints on the industry. They filled that significant market for small, multistage reciprocating compressors that moved the gas from the wellhead to the main pipelines that were the only customers for gas, says Arne A. Kellstrom of Kellstrom Associates, working with Knox Western Gas Compressors. They put together the less-than-200-horsepower reciprocating compressors that made up half the compression in the nation. Knox Western makes high-speed reciprocating compressors in a range from 25 to 1,400 horsepower.

Authors:
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
576360
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Hart`s Oil and Gas World
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 89; Journal Issue: 7; Other Information: PBD: Jul 1997
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
03 NATURAL GAS; 58 GEOSCIENCES; NATURAL GAS FIELDS; NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS; PRODUCTION; NATURAL GAS; GAS COMPRESSORS; PIPELINES; ECONOMICS

Citation Formats

Lyle, D. Compression needs change with market. United States: N. p., 1997. Web.
Lyle, D. Compression needs change with market. United States.
Lyle, D. 1997. "Compression needs change with market". United States.
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abstractNote = {Gas movement has changed. Gathering has changed. Operators concentrate their best resources on the core business of producing natural gas. These factors have created changes in the way compression affects production. From the 1960s into the early 1990s, Knox Western, Ariel and Gemini left their imprints on the industry. They filled that significant market for small, multistage reciprocating compressors that moved the gas from the wellhead to the main pipelines that were the only customers for gas, says Arne A. Kellstrom of Kellstrom Associates, working with Knox Western Gas Compressors. They put together the less-than-200-horsepower reciprocating compressors that made up half the compression in the nation. Knox Western makes high-speed reciprocating compressors in a range from 25 to 1,400 horsepower.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/576360}, journal = {Hart`s Oil and Gas World},
number = 7,
volume = 89,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1997},
month = {Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1997}
}