PREFACE

The Gas Engineering and Operating Practices Series consists of five Volumes comprising twelve separate Books addressing the various topics of gas supply, transmission, distribution, utilization, and related technologies. Contributing authors are veteran practitioners in the gas industry who were selected for their subject knowledge from 22 technical committees in the A. G. A. Operating Section, as well as academics, consultants, interested suppliers, and other specialists.

This Compressor Station Operations Book is one of three that will constitute the GEOP Transmission Volume, the other two being Pipeline/Transmission Planning and Economics and Gas Control/Automation and Telecommunications.

A work of this sort, by its nature, does not afford the detailed treatment possible in more specialized texts. The references provided in the footnotes and the Bibliography expand many-fold the usefulness of the Compressor Book. Readers owe a special debt of gratitude to Florine Hunt and fellow members of the special GEOP Subcommittee of the A.G.A. Library Services Committee, who did a thoroughly professional job of reviewing the manuscript for helpful insertion of footnotes and assured the accuracy of the Bibliography. They also reorganized Appendix A, Codes and Standards, to make it easier to understand and use.

Also to be remembered is the support and wise counsel of the first GEOP Chairman, the late Ty Miller, one of the Series' chief architects and principal champions.