Fifty years ago,a natural gas compressor
station in rural kentucky made history by harnessing the power of aviation
for the first time-and starting
something big.
Possum Trot Ridge has of the pace-mzzzakers
always been a quiet sort of in the fast-accelarating
place,a gentle backwater North American Oil And
among the rolling
paddocks gas industry of the 1950s
and woodlands of
western and 60s Burgeoning de-
kentucky.But 50 years ago, mand for energy in thePossum Trot Ridge hosted the 1950s created an urge-
start of something big:an inn- nt need for pipeline co-
ovation in the energy sector mpresors of higher effic-
that has since grown into a iency then existing equ-
worldwide business of multi- ipment to increase flow-
billion –dollar importance. S of natural gas through
The story
begins with new pipelines
across th-
Cooper-Bessemer (C-B), a e united states.
Long-established company Several com-
Founded in 1929,specialishing pressors manufacturers
In compressors and one had tried to meet this d-
Emand by developing gas turbines to supplement-
Or replace existing compre- ssors,many of which were
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