Engineering insight for difficult gas compression decisions.
Practical technical analysis for oil & gas professionals making decisions about declining pressure, compression concept selection, production bottlenecks, compressor reliability, equipment life extension and major compression projects.
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Compression Strategy & Field Development
Explore concept selection, compressor location, integrated asset modelling, suction-pressure sensitivity, field-life strategy and compression investment decisions.
Explore Strategy Insights →Production Optimisation & Debottlenecking
Explore system interactions, pressure losses, compressor recycling, changing duties, production constraints and major modifications.
Explore Optimisation Insights →Compressor Performance & Life Extension
Explore performance benchmarking, condition monitoring, root-cause diagnosis, operating envelopes, ageing equipment, rewheels and reliability improvement.
Explore Reliability Insights →FEED, Procurement & Technical Assurance
Explore specifications, vendor evaluation, compressor testing, technical assurance, Owner's Engineering and investment decision quality.
Explore Project Insights →Start with one issue that cuts across almost every compression problem
Beyond the Machine
Why compressor reliability often depends on understanding the wider production system.
Beyond the Machine: How Understanding the Wider Process System Unlocks True Gas Compression Reliability
Troubleshooting often begins with the compressor itself. But changed suction conditions, upstream restrictions, process control, downstream pressures and wider facility behaviour can all push an otherwise healthy compressor into an undesirable operating regime.
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How We Shortlisted Compression Options for a $1bn+ Field Development
A practical walkthrough of systematically narrowing multiple compression concepts to an optimum development option.
Beyond the Machine: Understanding the Wider Process System
Why machine-only troubleshooting can miss the process-system conditions driving poor compressor behaviour.
Building a Watertight Business Case for Gas Compression Investment
How to connect compression engineering with production, cost and risk evidence that management can evaluate.
Boosting Gas Compression Reliability with Older Equipment
Practical considerations for improving reliability and protecting profitability as compression assets age.
Battling Post-Plateau Decline? Your Compression Strategy Matters
Why declining reservoir pressure should trigger a life-of-field compression strategy rather than a single-point equipment decision.
Integrated Asset Modelling & Gas Compression: A Powerful Combination
How reservoir, wells, production network and compression models can be combined to improve development decisions.
How to Handle Excessive Centrifugal Compressor Recycling
Causes and remedies for persistent recycle operation, including compressor selection, controls, rewheel and operating philosophy.
What Is the Secret to a Great Compressor Selection?
Why the best compression selection must fit both present requirements and the way process duties will change through field life.
Why Condition Monitoring of Rotating Equipment Is Never Enough
Condition monitoring can reveal that something has changed; deeper engineering analysis is needed to determine why.
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Technical presentations, guides and longer-form resources for engineers who need more depth.
Interpreting and Analysing Integrated Asset Modelling Results
Guidance on understanding IAM outputs, model limitations and how simulation results should inform engineering decisions.
View Publication →Guidelines for Selecting IAM Tools and Technology
A structured framework for choosing an integrated asset modelling approach appropriate to the engineering problem.
View Publication →The Insider's Guide to Centrifugal Compressors in Oil & Gas
A deeper guide to the distinguishing features, design and operation of centrifugal compressors used in oil & gas applications.
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Declining Pressure & Compression Strategy
For Development Managers, Facilities Engineers and Project teams deciding how future compression should be introduced.
Production Optimisation & Debottlenecking
For teams trying to determine why facilities are no longer delivering the production they were designed for.
Compressor Performance, Reliability & Life Extension
For Rotating Equipment, Operations and Maintenance teams managing unreliable or ageing compressor assets.
Compression Projects, Procurement & Technical Assurance
For Project Managers, Lead Engineers and procurement teams responsible for major compressor packages.
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Compression Strategy & Concept Selection
Determine what compression is required, where and when.
View Service →Production Debottlenecking & System Redesign
Identify constraints before committing additional CAPEX.
View Service →Compressor Performance & Life Extension
Diagnose underperformance and define the right intervention.
View Service →Owner's Engineering & Technical Assurance
Protect operator requirements from FEED through commissioning.
View Service →Is one of these technical issues more than an academic question?
If declining pressure, poor compressor performance, a production constraint or a major compression decision is affecting a live project or operating asset, we can discuss the engineering situation directly.