Word: compressor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Deadlines for the pipeline were January 1984 for the first small shipments of gas and June 1984 for completion of the compressor stations that would bring the line to full operating capacity. With an air of satisfaction and triumph, Moscow announced two weeks ago that Siberian gas had started to flow into France on Jan. 1. Reported the Soviet news agency Novosti: "Whether Washington likes it or not, the pipeline is operating...
...even as the Soviets were proclaiming their success, reports were swirling in Moscow that the undertaking had suffered a setback. A fire at a compressor station in Urengoi, Siberia, was said to have damaged essential equipment. The Kremlin confirmed last week that the blaze had broken out on Dec. 15 in a pile of boxes lying on the floor of the station. The flames destroyed important electronic monitoring devices and control panels, but no one was injured. The Soviets denied that the accident would keep the pipeline from completion in June. Said Vasili Dinkov. Soviet Minister of the Gas Industry...
...residents, who earn their living from farming have seen their isolation jarred by the incessant sound of explosions, jackhammers and heavy construction equipment. Located along the pipeline's route, Pomary is not far from where the line passes under the Volga River. One of 41 compressor stations whose huge 25-megawatt turbine compressors will move the gas is also near...
...matter how long he survives, life will not be easy for Barney Clark. He is permanently tethered to 375 Ibs. of equipment that includes two compressors, a back-up compressor, a three-hour supply of pressurized air to operate the heart in case of a power failure, a drier to dehumidify the air, and mechanisms that control the air pressure and heart rate. All of this gear can be placed on what his doctors call a "shopping cart," which must always be within six feet of the patient, the length of the power lines that emerge from just below Clark...
Only 35 minutes after the Borodine set sail, the U.S. Commerce Department placed the two French companies involved in the compressor sale on a "temporary denials" list, a partial commercial boycott that prohibits them from buying any U.S. goods, services or technology. One of the firms, Dresser-France, the manufacturer of the three compressors, is the wholly owned subsidiary of Dresser Industries of Dallas. The other, Creusot-Loire, a Paris-based heavy-engineering firm, is the leading French contractor for Soviet pipeline orders...