Free, quarterly, scope-stated
The number no one else has.
Per-basin installed compression horsepower, owned versus contract, scope stated. Free, quarterly, built to be cited.
The Number
Q2 2026 ISSUE
64.8M HP
installed compression across twelve basins, roughly 74% of it operator-owned and invisible to filings
Permian ▲ +310KHaynesville ▲ +85KAppalachia ▼ −40K
Contract horsepower grew faster than the installed base for a third straight quarter. The outsourced share of this market is rising.
The lower 48 · every unitLIVE FROM THE CENSUS
operator-ownedassigned vendorquarterly addssized by installed HP · illustrative
Permitted field and gathering compression, ≥200 HP, excluding processing-plant and transmission compression, reconciled bottom-up where public disclosure allows.
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One number, three reads.
Each quarterly issue carries every basin's installed horsepower with the owned-versus-contract split, in one table and one chart, with quarter-over-quarter change. Every figure is written to the scope sentence. What the number tells you depends on which chair you sit in.
To be precise about which denominator this is: the market denominator, installed horsepower per basin. The production denominator, the BOE under your LOE, is a different number doing a different job. (Same word, two totals, conflated often enough that we gave the distinction its own page. See The Standard.)
For compression providers
Where this market is outsourced, and where it is growing. The owned-versus-contract split shows each basin's penetration; the quarter-over-quarter change shows where HP demand is moving. The rows underneath show whose units are terming there. That is The Census.
See the vendor read →For analysts & investors
A denominator you can footnote. Per-basin installed horsepower, scope stated, built to survive a fact-check. Size the supercycle instead of gesturing at it.
See the financial read →For operators
Your fleet, in context. Your basin's total is the base your share sits on, and the split tells you whether the operators around you are outsourcing while you still run your own iron.
See the operator read →The gate
The current issue, in your inbox.
The Report decays on schedule: next quarter the number moves, and the next issue is how you keep the current one current.
Quarterly, free. No calls unless you ask for one.
Nominally Hedged is the read on what moved and why. The Census is the rows underneath, for when a basin total stops being enough.