USA Compression Partners LP engages in the provision of compression services in terms of total compression fleet horsepower. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas and currently employs 730 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2013-01-15. The firm provides compression services to its customers primarily in connection with infrastructure applications, including both allowing for the processing and transportation of natural gas through the domestic pipeline system and crude oil production through artificial lift processes. The company engineers, designs, operates, services and repairs its compression units and maintains related support inventory and equipment. The firm also provides compression services in mature conventional basins, including gas lift applications on crude oil wells targeted by horizontal drilling techniques. The company has over 3,716,854 horsepower in its fleet. The firm provides compression services in a number of shales plays throughout the United States, including the Utica, Marcellus, Permian Basin, Delaware Basin, Eagle Ford, Mississippi Lime, Granite Wash, Woodford, Barnett, Haynesville, Niobrara and Fayetteville shales.