Wellhead Compression

Wellhead compression is a skid-mounted compressor sitting at the well, not at a central compressor station. Suction is the wellhead or nearby production piping. Discharge is the gathering line. Lowering wellhead pressure raises gas velocity in the tubing, which helps the well lift liquids and hold rate as reservoir pressure declines.

West Texas and southeast New Mexico wells often need this when line pressure climbs or when a well starts loading up between swab or plunger cycles. The package has to handle the actual suction pressure, discharge pressure, and liquids—not a catalog horsepower that assumes dry gas.

Redhead Services supplies and supports wellhead compression packages, including Platinum models described on our wellhead compressors page. We do not manufacture those Platinum-branded frames; we sell and support them for Permian producers. Related measurement is covered under meter runs.