Dresser Inc.  (Oil and Gas Journal  May, 2010)
Dresser, Inc., a highly diversified multi-billion dollar global oil and gas products and services company with a presence in over 100 countries, has a long history and wide regional footprint, charting over 129 years of technology innovation in the natural gas industry from its roots and foundational home in Bradford, McKean County, PA to its present-day scale. Dresser Inc. holds a well earned position as a global solutions provider, with brands: Wayne, Roots, Masoneilan, Consolidated, Waukesha and Dresser products.

The company supplies pressure regulators and flow control valves for the natural gas industry. This includes the Mooney, Becker and RedQ. All are known and proven throughout the distribution, transmission and midstream segments of the industry for unparalleled performance, positive shut off, ease of maintenance, low minimum operating differential, reliability and versatility. Coupled with no bleed pilots and control instrumentation, the result is a highly accurate pressure or flow control device that maximizes operations and uptime.

As John Schnitzer, manager of marketing for the Mooney and RedQ lines states, “customers that want a proven and rugged device that offers quick response to set point change and opens at minimal differential choose our solutions as their preferred choice. Not only do the Mooney FlowGrid, FlowGrid Slam Shut, FlowMax, FlowTap and FlowMax regulators provide performance that meets the demanding operational needs, they are also the industry’s easiest to maintain which means greater uptime and lower O and M costs.”

Schnitzer continues, “In terms of the Marcellus, Dresser is providing value from wellhead to pipeline within this highly active producer and midstream segment. With most of our customers running lean we are finding the need critical for ‘set it and forget it’ features; especially in the more remote locations. Our customers are looking for products that can operate effectively from very low flows to very high flows, with minimal parts, without having to disassemble; and with no special tools.”

As Greg Giernoth, manager of marketing for the Becker line states, “the Becker family of control valves including the T-Ball and V-Max provides self cleaning/non clogging operation, options for noise abatement trim, a wide range of flow/bidirectional operation and low differential performance.” He goes on to state that Becker instrumentation is, “unmatched in the prevention of fugitive gas emissions. The reduction in bleed gas can provide payback of the equipment costs in a short amount of time while also protecting the environment. Our Marcellus customer base knows our value set, knows our products and knows our people. This is about trust and reliability at the most basic level.”

Dresser, Inc. is also an approved station fabricator to all major gas transmission pipeline companies and one of the largest turnkey solutions providers located directly inside the Marcellus regional hub. Piping Specialties products and FloSystems solutions are designed and manufactured out of Dresser's 340,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility in Bradford, PA with a focus on an array of measurement and regulation solutions to producers, transmission companies, midstreamers and Utilities.