Centrifugal compressor end-users across the oil and gas industry face a host of challenges in today’s environment. Chief among these include a growing need to conserve costs and reduce carbon ...

Most failures of refurbished compressor gas seals result from lack of clean and dry buffer gas supplied to the compressor, according to a recent analysis conducted by a leading supplier of engineered ...

Alex Schaefer and Michael Shaffer explain why advanced planning and clear communication are critical to make new projects, as well as upgrades, successful API Standard 692, “Dry Gas Sealing Systems ...

John Crane, a global leader in flow-control technologies and an innovator in solutions for rotating equipment, and a business of Smiths ...

John Crane is marking 50 years since a breakthrough that revolutionized gas compression sealing. In 1976, the introduction of the Type 28 dry gas seal transformed compressor reliability and set a new ...

Petrotec, a 100 percent Qatari-owned company and the American multinational Flowserve, jointly opened a dry gas seal repair and testing facility at the Petrotec Service and Technology Centre (STC), ...

Several tests conducted on various configurations of a two-stage supersonic ejector to capture low-pressure gas and discharge it for re-injection into a higher-pressure stream for use as fuel gas ...