Ariel Recip Compressors
Ariel Recip Compressors
(OP)
Gents,
we are planning to install a new recip gas compressor in one of our upstream fields.
One of the vendor options is Ariel - also due to its low costs.
Currently we have no experience with high speed rpm (~1200-1500) recip compressors.
What is your operational experience with high speed recips? Any specific experience with Ariel products?
All the best,
Wolfgang
we are planning to install a new recip gas compressor in one of our upstream fields.
One of the vendor options is Ariel - also due to its low costs.
Currently we have no experience with high speed rpm (~1200-1500) recip compressors.
What is your operational experience with high speed recips? Any specific experience with Ariel products?
All the best,
Wolfgang





RE: Ariel Recip Compressors
I've never heard them called "low cost", but with competent packaging and maintenance they are very "high reliability". You need to pay really close attention to the packaging specifications (as you would with any compressor) and packager performance.
David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering
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RE: Ariel Recip Compressors
I agree with David that the Ariel compressor is the vendor of choice for recips.
BTW, the Ariel compressor is manufactured in the same small Ohio town that used to manufacture the old Cooper Bessemer compressors. I think that you will find that a lot of the key Ariel employees are ex CB employees.
RE: Ariel Recip Compressors
It is the lovely community of Mt. Vernnon, Ohio. Cooper still makes some compressors there (I think they make Ajax slow-speed integrals there, but I'm not sure). Ariel has been there long enough now that many employees of either company are alumni of the other one.
David
RE: Ariel Recip Compressors
The old CB facility in Mt. Vernon now packages gas turbine driven units using Rolls Royce units. No recips.
They are now called Rolls Royce.
The recip part of their business was sold and moved to Houston where they sell the high speed type units.
RE: Ariel Recip Compressors
David
RE: Ariel Recip Compressors
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RE: Ariel Recip Compressors
Cooper Cameron still has them on their web page http
David
RE: Ariel Recip Compressors
-The future's so bright I gotta wear shades!
RE: Ariel Recip Compressors
No matter what course you take, force your packager's quotes to be as detailed as possible. Require a pulsation and a torsional analysis. To take a shortcut here can be catastrophic. Be especially aware of items from some packagers like to put off on your contractor (like shipped loose distance piece supports). The packager knows how to install these correctly but most contractors do not. The loopholes can only be solved by extensive documentation.
If the quotes do not provide the documentation, then your RFQ or follow up questions should.
This may not answer your specific question but this is what I do for a living.
Chris Foley
Chief Engineer
Compressor Systems, Inc.
PS Lead times are getting very bad due to high demand. Whatever you want to do, you might want to get with it. I have seen CAT engine deliveries in excess of 72 weeks!