OPTIMUM Pumping Technology provides design services to pipeline companies, compressor manufacturers, packagers, natural gas industry consultants and research and development organizations. Our design services complement our Performance Augmentation Network products. We employ a systems engineering, model based design and multi-objective optimization approach to all of our projects. OPTIMUM Pumping Technology has an exclusive license with our affiliated company OPTIMUM Power Technology to provide state-of-the-art design services to the natural gas industry. We use Virtual Pumping Station, the world's only one dimensional (1-D) real gas modeling and simulation design software, Virtual 2-Stroke and Virtual 4-Stroke together with Automated Design and OPTIMUM Power Technology's Network Supercomputer to deliver the best possible design services to all of our customers. We provide design services in the following areas: