Onshore natural gas transmission compression means any combination of compressors and associated equipment involved in moving natural gas from production fields or natural gas processing plants through transmission pipelines to natural gas distribution pipelines and storage facilities.

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And Bord Gais also owns the gas transmission pipelines to the northwest and south which are not affected, but the distribution network to the 10 towns feeding off those pipelines is part of the likely sale.

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