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gas compressor
(redirected from Gas compression)

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gas compressor [′gas kəm‚presĀ·ər]
(mechanical engineering)
A machine that increases the pressure of a gas or vapor by increasing the gas density and delivering the fluid against the connected system resistance.


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SonaHess began work on them in the third quarter of 2000, with its programme including 250 km 2D seismic, 1,000 km 3D seismic, 36 new wells, workover of 30 existing wells, and installation of water and gas injection and gas compression facilities and a 75-km gas pipeline.
5 bn were to be spent on 16 gas compression plants, with a major part of the compressed gas to be injected into the oilfields through high pressure systems.
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