Milestones 2019
Burckhardt Compression acquires the
remaining 60% of Arkos Group LLC on
November 25, 2019. Arkos Field Services
thus becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary
of Burckhardt Compression and is
fully consolidated as of this date.
Through this transaction, Burckhardt
Compression, with Arkos Field Services,
is unique in its ability to provide its US
customers with compressors as well as
with compressor services for every segment
of the market – upstream, midstream
and downstream. The US is the
country with the highest number of
reciprocating compressor installations
in the world.
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Burckhardt Compression is supplying
Ganzair, a Hungarian company, with a
high-speed compressor that will inject
natural gas from a pipeline into an
underground storage facility. This
compressor will be compliant with
ISO 13631 and will be the first highspeed
compressor made by Burckhardt
Compression to be used for this purpose
in Europe. Burckhardt Compression
offers customers worldwide a line of
high-speed compressors with a wide
power range from 100 kW to 7.5 MW,
covering a wide variety of applications
in the upstream and midstream
segments.
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Burckhardt Compression has signed a
five-year service agreement with a
leading transporter of liquefied natural
gas (LNG) to service the Laby®-GI
compressors installed on nine of the
company’s LNG carriers. The long-term
service agreement covers all compressors
and compressor system parts
requiring maintenance, customer
support, remote diagnostics for
preventive maintenance, on-site field
services, and overall project management.
Maintenance will be performed
while the carriers are in operation in the
open sea for maximum efficiency. All
nine LNG carriers are ME-GI-powered
and equipped with Laby®-GI compressors
for handling BOG.
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Burckhardt Compression receives its
very first order for its recently launched
capex-optimized API 618-compliant
compressors in January 2020. The
compressors ordered by Hyundai
Engineering Company from this new
product line will be used in propane
dehydrogenation and propylene production
applications at a petrochemical
plant in Poland. Burckhardt Compression
makes the most of its global
manufacturing footprint, cost-efficient
engineering capabilities and global
supply chain by launching this new
product line.
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Burckhardt Compression strengthens its services operations in the Middle East by opening a new service center in Doha, Qatar, in collaboration with Oriental Trading Company (OTC). This “Authorized Service Center” offers maintenance, repair, and engineering services for Burckhardt Compression compressors as well as other brand compressors. The new center brings Burckhardt Compression even closer to its customers in this region and guarantees quick response times.
Burckhardt Compression has joined
forces with GRZ Technologies, a spin-off
of ETH Lausanne, Switzerland, to
develop a new hydrogen compression
technology for applications ranging
from hydrogen fuel stations to hydrogen
energy storage systems. The new
technology involves thermal active
metal hydrides. Burckhardt Compression
has developed a static hydrogen
compressor with no moving parts that
uses thermal active metal hydrides to
compress the hydrogen. Hydrogen is one
of several promising sources of carbonneutral
energy for industrial and
mobility applications.
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