CONCEPTCOMPRESSOR™ · SELECT
Select the right compression
concept before the wrong one
becomes expensive to reverse.
CONCEPTCOMPRESSOR™ is ETA's structured decision tool for evaluating compression location, timing, capacity, technology, configuration and life-of-field performance before major capital is committed.
Use it when...
Future production requires compression but the optimum concept is unclear.
Location
Wellhead, nodal, hybrid or centralised?
Timing
When should compression be introduced?
Configuration
How should the system evolve through field life?
Compression concept
selection is one of the
hardest decisions to
undo later.
A concept can meet today's design point while becoming inefficient, oversized,
capacity-limited or operationally inflexible as pressure and production decline.
CONCEPTCOMPRESSOR™ tests options against the field's changing
requirements rather than selecting a machine around a single duty.
The tool is designed to prevent:
- ✓ Premature commitment to one compression concept
- ✓ Over-specifying capacity and complexity
- ✓ Under-specifying future operating range
- ✓ Ignoring network and reservoir interactions
- ✓ Poor phasing of compression CAPEX
- ✓ Selecting equipment around one design point
- ✓ Failing to consider life-of-field flexibility
CONCEPTCOMPRESSOR™
Identification
Identify production
opportunities, constraints and
compression requirements.
Generate and screen
technically feasible
development options.
Evaluate leading options in
greater technical and economic
depth.
Test the preferred concept
across life-of-field scenarios.
Define the recommended
concept, phasing and route into
project definition.
More than compressor
technology
Wellhead, nodal, hybrid and centralised
alternatives.
Reservoir, well, network and compressor
interactions.
Impact of declining wellhead and suction
pressure.
Unit count, redundancy, parallel/series operation
and staging.
Electric, gas turbine and gas engine implications.
Production benefit, CAPEX, OPEX and project
phasing.
A defensible compression
development decision
The technically and commercially strongest option.
How duties change through field decline.
When investment should be introduced.
Unit count, sizing, staging and flexibility.
Technical and commercial decision evidence.
Route into pre-FEED, FEED and procurement.
Integrated modelling supporting a
field-development decision
Gas Compression
Strategy, Concept
Selection & Integrated
Asset Modelling
Tool vs service
CONCEPTCOMPRESSOR™ is the decision methodology. The
broader engineering service may also include integrated asset
modelling, hydraulic analysis, conceptual engineering, cost
estimation and business-case support.
Deciding what compression your
field will need next?
CONCEPTCOMPRESSOR™ is designed for decisions that need to remain right as pressure and
production conditions change.