Leveraging its rich heritage of 70 years in this space, Archrock utilizes equipment and provides expert manpower to maximize compression uptime for its customers, while its aftermarket services keep customer-owned equipment well-maintained and reliably running.
Through our technological advancements and digital transformation, we are leading the industry in using innovative tools and remote monitoring to provide us with in-depth equipment knowledge necessary to maintain maximum uptime by predictively uncovering and proactively correcting mechanical issues before they escalate
Archrock’s contract compression services are designed to meet customers’ compression-specific objectives with precision, whether lifting oil out of the ground, or moving natural gas to end markets through midstream gas gathering and processing facilities.
Over its 70-year history, Archrock had developed robust, time-tested processes, procedures and designs to maximize consistent uptime. Archrock collaborates closely with its customers to ensure it deploys and utilizes the appropriate contract compression equipment from its significant fleet to meet the customer’s contract compression service needs.
In the early years of Archrock’s history, the focus of contract compression was smaller units for wellheads, ranging from 200 to 400 hp each. But, as the midstream sector expanded, larger customer facilities requiring the service of multiple, larger compressor packages became prevalent, often requiring equipment in the 1,500 to 3,000 hp per unit range and frequently requiring a total of over 10,000 hp per location. Currently, Archrock’s industry-leading fleet averages over 1,100 hp per unit, totaling 3.8 million hp, distinguishing itself in the market.
At a time when finding technically skilled manpower is difficult, Archrock addresses the challenge by prioritizing an ‘ADR’ strategy—attract, develop and retain talent. Utilizing a workforce with expertise ranging from 5 to 35 years, Archrock focuses on building the next generation through comprehensive technical training, certifications, and career advancement opportunities, helping to better ensuring retention and growth.
Archrock’s Aftermarket Services team excels in helping customers manage and maintain their owned equipment throughout its lifecycle. Preventive maintenance, overhaul and reconfiguration services keep customer equipment running at peak performance, thereby helping customers keep their operations as productive and lucrative as possible. Archrock’s extensive parts inventory is strategically located across the U.S. and serves both its contract compression services fleet and its aftermarket customers, both through part sales and installation and repair services.
Whether in the case of Archrock’s owned compression equipment— which Archrock operates to supply its customers with contract compression services—or in the case of customer-owned compression equipment, a single part failure can lead to cascading issues, requiring multiple parts to be repaired simultaneously and the equipment being out of service for a period of time. With respect to Archrock’s owned compression equipment, Archrock leverages advanced telematics and digital solutions to enable real-time insights, optimize equipment performance and proactively address issues.
Collaborating with a Permian Basin customer, Archrock, with a joint task force approach, leverages detailed analytics and telematics data on its compression equipment to help the customer address production issues and to allow Archrock to address mechanical issues unit by unit, location by location, resulting in an improved natural gas flowrate at each targeted location. Beyond the immediate benefits of increased gas sales, revenue and profitability for the customer, these technological advancements foster greater job satisfaction and enhanced work-life balance for Archrock’s employees.
In another instance, a South Texas customer aimed to reduce the volume of natural gas that it flared, thereby leaving a higher volume of natural gas for sale and reducing the associated emissions, namely CO2. Archrock leveraged its proprietary telematics technology to analyze the customer’s operations and help identify areas for improvement. Mechanical changes on the customer’s equipment and Archrock’s equipment resulted in a nearly 100 percent reduction in flaring and in optimizing gas flow for selling while significantly reducing CO2 emissions.
“We Power a Cleaner America™” is one of Archrock’s key strategic focuses, which it is accomplishing through initiatives like the one just described, through its various “New Ventures,” investments and efforts and by allocating approximately 20 percent of its growth CapEx to electric motor drive compression. It has recently deployed such compressors totaling 5,500 hp units to provide contract compression services to a customer in the Permian Basin, which was its largest installation to-date. Via its New Ventures initiatives, Archrock is partnering with innovative companies focused on emissions detection, measurement and reduction. It has invested in Ecotec, a company focused on methane emission notification, identification, and quantification. It has also developed a proprietary, patent-pending methane capture product, the Carbon Hawk™, that can be attached to multiple customer-owned compressor packages to help eliminate methane emissions from rod packings and blowdowns and helping customers ensure compliance with various environmental goals and obligations, including the EPA’s new Quad-Ob regulatory requirements.
Archrock’s compression services are in such high demand that it currently maintains an impressive 95-plus percent fleet utilization rate. A trusted partner, Archrock is empowering customers with a legacy of excellence in robust infrastructure, nationwide presence and superior quality of operations.
