Compressors are used in a wide range of applications in the oil and gas, energy, and petrochemical industries. The growing hydrogen, carbon capture, biofuels, and other energy transition markets present new opportunities for compressor companies. Many of these industries are being built from the ground up, offering years of growth for compressors and related equipment as the necessary infrastructure is built to handle growing demand.
Upstream and midstream oil & gas
Compressor technologies can be grouped into four categories: rotary, reciprocating (recips), centrifugal, and internally geared (Exhibit 1).
Exhibit 1: Segmentation of compressor technologies
ADI Analytics has performed numerous studies for clients across the oil and gas industry, where compressors find a number of uses. Across the value chain, most oil and gas process applications utilize centrifugals and recips (Exhibit 2). When looking at processes across the oil and gas value chain, centrifugals dominate most process application, but recips have important niche end-uses (Exhibit 3).
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