Gibraltar Lubricating Services

About Gibraltar Lubricating Services

Gibraltar Lubricating Services is a company that provides services that normally cannot be found elsewhere. Our main activity is specialized reciprocating compressor lubrication for once-through lubrication of the compressor crankcase, cylinder, and packing in sour, corrosive, wet, and/or high-pressure gas streams. In conjunction with this service goes our expertise in solving difficult and baffling compressor operational problems.

Quite often the operators do not know the reason for their troubles, and we then have to look at the whole system. If it is a lubrication problem and our oil formulation will eliminate the difficulties, we will say so. If the problem is other than lubrication, we will tell the operator what options he has for eliminating the complaints.

The Gibraltar line of compressor lubricating oils contains an additive package that protects the metal parts from corrosion and wear due to dirty, wet, and corrosive gases. Reciprocating compressor lubrication is a once-through application. Therefore, these oils are heavily fortified with anti-corrosion, metal-wetting, water-displacing, anti-scuff additives to cover a wide range of protection. These oils are intentionally designed to be the sacrificial component for protection of metal parts in dirty, corrosive, high-pressure gas compressor applications.

With corrosion and deposits becoming more of a problem for the maintenance people, this compressor lubricant information might be of interest to you!

The compressor manufacturer writes his instruction books and designs his compressors for dry, sweet, low-temperature, clean gases and applications below 1,000 psi pressure. Those units never give operators any trouble.

Where we earn our keep is at locations where compressor operating conditions are not ideal: water carryover; sour gases; dirty gases; high pressures; chlorides; and changed operating conditions. These compressor units require special metallurgy, different valve components, different operating clearances, different packing arrangements, and most importantly, a sacrificial lubricating oil not readily available on the commercial market.

Gibraltar Compressor Oils contain six additives for use in the most severe applications. They are expensive, but they have no commercial equal. That is why thirteen major oil companies buy our oil for use in their sour, wet, high-pressure compressors.

Reciprocating compressor lubrication is a very small niche of the lubricating market, but it is a very important part of the market requiring a specialty lubricant. The Gibraltar Compressor Oil could reduce your expenditures as far as spare parts are concerned and at the same time make heroes out of your maintenance people.

Gibraltar has an excellent compressor oil--one that is known for being catalyst-friendly and maintenance-friendly. That is how we get our customers, by referrals from satisfied customers who have reduced their down-time dramatically by using the Gibraltar Compressor Oil and getting a compressor to perform as it was designed to perform. Again, we work with our customers from the technical/mechanical standpoint when necessary.