Dora Partners & Co. Introduce Partnership with TMI, Compressor Market Report

Although the industry consistently provides forecasts on the gas turbine and overall power generation markets, a sizable equipment sector is typically left out of the conversation: reciprocating and centrifugal compressors. These vital machines are integrated across every aspect of the oil and gas chain, including upstream, midstream, and downstream, in addition to the petrochemical and industrial markets.

Dora Partners & Co. fills this niche with its own report—the Annual Centrifugal & Reciprocating Compressor Market Analysis & Forecast, 2025 Edition. Dora Partners’ own Anthony Brough and Christean Kapp sit down to address their newly founded partnership with Turbomachinery International and highlight the centrifugal and reciprocating compressor markets.

TURBO: What is driving the wave of investiture and expansion in the compressor OEM market?

Kapp: Well, there are a couple factors at play. We’ve fully recovered from the COVID downturn and people are producing as normal. Another big factor is the growth of liquefied natural gas, as Europeans are replacing Russian gas and other sources with LNG from the Middle East and the United States. Power generation for data centers also represents a huge bubble.

While compressors are not always directly found in power generation, they’re required for fuel gas boosting, pipeline compression, and upstream so, as is the case for all these power generation facilities, you need more gas. We also have the third area of discussion: People, at least in most parts of the world, are getting into renewables, emission abatement, and carbon reduction.

TURBO: Why will positive displacement compressors help to grow hydrogen production more than other models in development, such as centrifugal compressors? Are there technological or cost considerations?

Kapp: I’d say yes to both [technological and cost considerations]. Both reciprocating positive displacement and rotating technologies have been used in hydrogen, but reciprocating compressors have an advantage for this very low mole weight, high-power gas. They can compress hydrogen easier than centrifugals with less mass, so they also tend to be a bit cheaper for these operations.

For more information on the 2025 Compressor Market Report, please visit https://www.dora-partners.com/dora-reports.php.