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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION


Washington, D.C. 20549





Form 10-K


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|þ          |  | ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
    SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934    
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|           |  | For fiscal year ended December 31, 2004                                                     
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|or        
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|o          |  | TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
    SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
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|           |  | For the transition period
    from           to           .                                 

Commission file no. 1-13071


Hanover Compressor Company


(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


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|Delaware                                                           |  | 76-0625124                              
|(State or Other Jurisdiction of
    Incorporation or Organization) |  | (I.R.S. Employer
    Identification No.)

12001 North Houston Rosslyn, Houston, Texas 77086


(Address of principal executive offices, zip code)


Registrants telephone number, including area code:


(281) 447-8787


Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the
Act:


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|Title of Each Class                                                                           |  | Name of Each Exchange in Which Registered                                      
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|Common Stock, $.001 par value
    8.625% Senior Notes due 2010
    9.0% Senior Notes due 2014 |  | New York Stock Exchange
    New York Stock Exchange
    New York Stock Exchange

Securities registered pursuant to 12(g) of the Act:


Title of class:     None


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|PART I                                           
|                                                  | Item 1.  |  | Business                                                                                  |      |  | 3  | 
|                                                  | Item 2.  |  | Properties                                                                                |      |  | 19 | 
|                                                  | Item 3.  |  | Legal Proceedings                                                                         |      |  | 20 | 
|                                                  | Item 4.  |  | Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security
    Holders                                   |      |  | 20 | 
|PART II                                          
|                                                  | Item 5.  |  | Market for Registrants Common Equity
    and Related Stockholder Matters                 |      |  | 20 | 
|                                                  | Item 6.  |  | Selected Financial Data                                                                   |      |  | 22 | 
|                                                  | Item 7.  |  | Managements Discussion and Analysis
    of Financial Condition and Results of Operations |      |  | 24 | 
|                                                  | Item 7A. |  | Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures
    About Market Risk                            |      |  | 65 | 
|                                                  | Item 8.  |  | Financial Statements and Supplementary
    Data                                           |      |  | 67 | 
|                                                  | Item 9.  |  | Changes in and Disagreements with
    Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure  |      |  | 67 | 
|                                                  | Item 9A. |  | Controls and Procedures                                                                   |      |  | 67 | 
|                                                  | Item 9B. |  | Other Information                                                                         |      |  | 68 | 
|PART III                                         
|                                                  | Item 10. |  | Directors and Executive Officers of the
    Registrant                                    |      |  | 69 | 
|                                                  | Item 11. |  | Executive Compensation                                                                    |      |  | 69 | 
|                                                  | Item 12. |  | Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial
    Owners and Management                        |      |  | 69 | 
|                                                  | Item 13. |  | Certain Relationships and Related
    Transactions                                        |      |  | 71 | 
|                                                  | Item 14. |  | Principal Accounting Fees and Services                                                    |      |  | 71 | 
|PART IV                                          
|                                                  | Item 15. |  | Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules                                                   |      |  | 71 | 
|SIGNATURES                                        |          |  | 79                                                                                        |     
|Employment Letter - Anita H. Colglazier          
|Description of Change of Control Arrangement     
|Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges
|List of Subsidiaries                             
|Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP            
|Certification of CEO Pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)  
|Certification of CFO Pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)  
|Certification of CEO Pursuant to Section 906     
|Certification of CFO Pursuant to Section 906     



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PART I


SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS






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| |  | our inability to renew our short-term leases of equipment with
    our customers so as to fully recoup our cost of the equipment;                                                                                       
|
| |  | a prolonged substantial reduction in oil and natural gas prices,
    which could cause a decline in the demand for our compression
    and oil and natural gas production and processing equipment;                     
|
| |  | reduced profit margins or the loss of market share resulting
    from competition or the introduction of competing technologies
    by other companies;                                                                 
|
| |  | changes in economic or political conditions in the countries in
    which we do business, including civil uprisings, riots,
    terrorism, the taking of property without fair compensation and
    legislative changes;
|
| |  | changes in currency exchange rates;                                                                                                                                                                                     
|
| |  | the inherent risks associated with our operations, such as
    equipment defects, malfunctions and natural disasters;                                                                                                   
|
| |  | our inability to implement certain business objectives, such as:                                                                                                                                                        



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| |  | international expansion,                                                                                                
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| |  | integrating acquired businesses,                                                                                        
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| |  | generating sufficient cash,                                                                                             
|
| |  | accessing capital markets,                                                                                              
|
| |  | refinancing existing or incurring additional indebtedness to
    fund our business, and                                 
|
| |  | executing our exit and sale strategy with respect to assets
    classified on our balance sheet as assets held for sale;



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| |  | risks associated with any significant failure or malfunction of
    our enterprise resource planning system;                                       
|
| |  | governmental safety, health, environmental and other
    regulations, which could require us to make significant
    expenditures; and             
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| |  | our inability to comply with covenants in our debt agreements
    and the decreased financial flexibility associated with our
    substantial debt.





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Industry trends




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Notable Events in 2004


Debt Transactions.




Dispositions.






Securities Class Actions.


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SEC Settlement.


Industry Overview


Natural Gas Compression






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| |   |                                                                                   
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| |  | engineering, fabrication and assembly of the compressor unit;                     
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| |  | installation and testing of the unit;                                             
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| |  | ongoing performance review to assess the need for a change in
    compression; and
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| |  | periodic maintenance and replacement parts supply.                                

Production and Processing Equipment




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Business Segments






| |   |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
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| |  | U.S. rentals. Our U.S. rental segment primarily
    provides natural gas compression and production and processing
    equipment rental and maintenance services to meet specific
    customer requirements on Hanover-owned assets located within the
    United States.                                                                                                                                         
|
| |  | International rentals. Our international rentals segment
    provides substantially the same services as our U.S. rental
    segment except it services locations outside the United States.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
|
| |  | Compressor and accessory fabrication. Our compressor and
    accessory fabrication segment involves the design, fabrication
    and sale of natural gas compression units and accessories to
    meet unique customer specifications.                                                                                                                                                                             
|
| |  | Production and processing equipment fabrication. Our
    production and processing equipment fabrication segment includes
    the design, fabrication and sale of equipment used in the
    production and treating of crude oil and natural gas; and the
    engineering, procurement and manufacturing of heavy wall
    reactors for refineries and the construction of desalination
    plants and tank farms.
|
| |  | Parts, service and used equipment. Our parts, service and
    used equipment segment provides a full range of services to
    support the surface production needs of customers, from
    installation and normal maintenance and services to full
    operation of a customers owned assets and surface
    equipment as well as sales of used equipment.                                                       



Compression Rentals, Maintenance Services and Compressor and
Accessory Fabrication






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Compressor Rental Fleet




|                             |       |          |       |                |  |            |       |       |  |  |    |     |  
|---------------------------- | ----- | -------- | ----- | -------------- |  | ---------- | ----- | ----- |  |  | -- | --- | -
|                             |       |          |       | Aggregate      |  |           
|                             |       | Number   |       | Horsepower     |  | % of      
|Range of Horsepower Per Unit |       | of Units |       | (In thousands) |  | Horsepower
|                             |       |          |       |                |  |           
|0-100                        |       |          | 1,926 |                |  |            | 130   |       |  |  | 4  | %  
|101-200                      |       |          | 1,340 |                |  |            | 203   |       |  |  | 6  | %  
|201-500                      |       |          | 1,150 |                |  |            | 375   |       |  |  | 11 | %  
|501-800                      |       |          | 574   |                |  |            | 366   |       |  |  | 11 | %  
|801-1,100                    |       |          | 489   |                |  |            | 491   |       |  |  | 15 | %  
|1,101-1,500                  |       |          | 862   |                |  |            | 1,182 |       |  |  | 36 | %  
|1,501-2,500                  |       |          | 176   |                |  |            | 321   |       |  |  | 10 | %  
|2,501-4,450                  |       |          | 72    |                |  |            | 241   |       |  |  | 7  | %  
|                             |       |          |       |                |  |            |       |       |  |  |    |    
|                             | Total |          |       | 6,589          |  |            |       | 3,309 |  |  |    | 100 | %
|                             |       |          |       |                |  |            |       |       |  |  |    |    



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| | -----------------------------------------------
| | Production and Processing Equipment Fabrication





| |                                  
| | ---------------------------------
| | Parts, Service and Used Equipment





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| | Sources and Availability of Raw Materials



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| | Market and Customers







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| | Sales and Marketing







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| | Competition





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| | Government Regulation





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International Operations




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| |   |                                                                                                                                                                                                        
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| |  | difficulties in managing international operations;                                                                                                                                                     
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| |  | unexpected changes in regulatory requirements;                                                                                                                                                         
|
| |  | tariffs and other trade barriers which may restrict our ability
    to enter into new markets;                                                                                                         
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| |  | governmental actions that result in the deprivation of contract
    rights;                                                                                                                            
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| |  | changes in political and economic conditions in the countries in
    which we operate; including civil uprisings, riots and terrorist
    acts, particularly with respect to our operations in Nigeria;
|
| |  | potentially adverse tax consequences;                                                                                                                                                                  
|
| |  | restrictions on repatriation of earnings or expropriation of
    property without fair compensation;                                                                                                   
|
| |  | difficulties in establishing new international offices and risks
    inherent in establishing new relationships in foreign countries;                                                                  
|
| |  | the burden of complying with the various laws and regulations in
    the countries in which we operate; and                                                                                            
|
| |  | fluctuations in currency exchange rates and the value of the
    U.S. dollar, particularly with respect to our operations in
    Argentina, Venezuela and Europe.                                      











|                    |                      |              |       |       |  |   |        |        |  
|------------------- | -------------------- | ------------ | ----- | ----- |  | - | ------ | ------ | -
|                    |                      | Year Ended  
|                    |                      | December 31,
|                    |                      |             
|                    |                      | 2004         |       | 2003 
|                    |                      |              |       |      
|Italy               |                      | $            | 4,170 |       |  | $ | 221    |       
|Argentina           |                      |              | (624  | )     |  |   | 494    |       
|Venezuela           |                      |              | 1,165 |       |  |   | (2,443 | )     
|All other countries |                      |              | 511   |       |  |   | (820   | )     
|                    |                      |              |       |       |  |   |        |       
|                    | Exchange gain (loss) |              | $     | 5,222 |  |   | $      | (2,548 | )
|                    |                      |              |       |       |  |   |        |       

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Executive Officers of the Registrant




|                    |  |     |    |          |  |                                                     
|------------------- |  | --- | -- | -------- |  | ----------------------------------------------------
|Name                |  | Age |    | Position
|                    |  |     |    |         
|John E. Jackson     |  |     | 46 |          |  | President and Chief Executive Officer; Director     
|Gary M. Wilson      |  |     | 48 |          |  | Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
|Lee E. Beckelman    |  |     | 39 |          |  | Vice President and Chief Financial Officer          
|Anita H. Colglazier |  |     | 49 |          |  | Vice President Controller                          
|Peter G. Schreck    |  |     | 41 |          |  | Vice President Treasury and Planning               
|Stephen P. York     |  |     | 48 |          |  | Vice President Investor Relations and Technology   
|Mickey McDonald     |  |     | 57 |          |  | Vice President U.S. Operations                     
|Steve W. Muck       |  |     | 52 |          |  | Vice President International Operations            
|Hilary S. Ware      |  |     | 48 |          |  | Vice President Human Resources                     



John E. Jackson


Gary M. Wilson


Lee E. Beckelman


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Anita H. Colglazier


Peter G. Schreck


Stephen P. York


Mickey McDonald


Steve W. Muck


Hilary S. Ware


Employees




Electronic Information


http://www.hanover-co.com. http://www.sec.gov.


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http://www.hanover-co.com.









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|Item 2. | Properties



|                              |  |        |        |        |  |      |         |  |  |                                     
|----------------------------- |  | ------ | ------ | ------ |  | ---- | ------- |  |  | ------------------------------------
|                              |  |        |        | Square |  |     
|Location                      |  | Status |        | Feet   |  | Uses
|                              |  |        |        |        |  |     
|Broken Arrow, Oklahoma        |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 127,505 |  |  | Compressor and accessory fabrication
|Houston, Texas                |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 190,531 |  |  | Compressor and accessory fabrication
|Houston, Texas                |  |        | Leased |        |  |      | 51,941  |  |  | Office                              
|Anaco, Venezuela              |  |        | Leased |        |  |      | 10,000  |  |  | Compressor rental and service       
|Casacara Station, Colombia    |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 14,000  |  |  | Compressor rental and service       
|Casper, Wyoming               |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 28,390  |  |  | Compressor rental and service       
|Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina |  |        | Leased |        |  |      | 21,000  |  |  | Compressor rental and service       
|Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 26,000  |  |  | Compressor rental and service       
|Davis, Oklahoma               |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 393,870 |  |  | Compressor rental and service       
|Farmington, New Mexico        |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 20,361  |  |  | Compressor rental and service       
|Farmington, New Mexico        |  |        | Leased |        |  |      | 18,691  |  |  | Compressor rental and service       
|Gillette, Wyoming             |  |        | Leased |        |  |      | 10,200  |  |  | Compressor rental and service       
|Houston, Texas                |  |        | Leased |        |  |      | 13,200  |  |  | Compressor rental and service       
|Kilgore, Texas                |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 33,039  |  |  | Compressor rental and service       
|Maturin, Venezuela            |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 20,000  |  |  | Compressor rental and service       
|Midland, Texas                |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 53,300  |  |  | Compressor rental and service       
|Neuquen, Argentina            |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 30,000  |  |  | Compressor rental and service       
|Pampa, Texas                  |  |        | Leased |        |  |      | 24,000  |  |  | Compressor rental and service       
|Pocola, Oklahoma              |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 18,705  |  |  | Compressor rental and service       
|Santa Cruz, Bolivia           |  |        | Leased |        |  |      | 30,622  |  |  | Compressor rental and service       
|Victoria, Texas               |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 28,609  |  |  | Compressor rental and service       
|Walsall, UK  Redhouse        |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 15,300  |  |  | Compressor rental and service       
|Walsall, UK  Westgate        |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 44,700  |  |  | Compressor rental and service       

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|                         |  |        |        |        |  |      |         |  |  |                                                
|------------------------ |  | ------ | ------ | ------ |  | ---- | ------- |  |  | -----------------------------------------------
|                         |  |        |        | Square |  |     
|Location                 |  | Status |        | Feet   |  | Uses
|                         |  |        |        |        |  |     
|Yukon, Oklahoma          |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 22,453  |  |  | Compressor rental and service                  
|Houston, Texas           |  |        | Leased |        |  |      | 28,750  |  |  | Parts, service and used equipment              
|Broussard, Louisiana     |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 74,402  |  |  | Production and processing equipment fabrication
|Calgary, Alberta, Canada |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 97,250  |  |  | Production and processing equipment fabrication
|Columbus, Texas          |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 219,552 |  |  | Production and processing equipment fabrication
|Corpus Christi, Texas    |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 11,000  |  |  | Production and processing equipment fabrication
|Dubai, UAE               |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 106,218 |  |  | Production and processing equipment fabrication
|Hamriyah Free Zone, UAE  |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 52,474  |  |  | Production and processing equipment fabrication
|Mantova, Italy           |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 680,484 |  |  | Production and processing equipment fabrication
|Tulsa, Oklahoma          |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 40,100  |  |  | Production and processing equipment fabrication
|Victoria, Texas          |  |        | Owned  |        |  |      | 50,506  |  |  | Production and processing equipment fabrication








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|Item 3. | Legal Proceedings








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|Item 4. | Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders






PART II







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|Item 5. | Market for Registrants Common Equity and Related
    Stockholder Matters



|                             |  |       |       |     |  |   |       | 
|---------------------------- |  | ----- | ----- | --- |  | - | ----- | 
|                             |  | Price
|                             |  |      
|                             |  | High  |       | Low
|Year ended December 31, 2003 |  |       |       |     |  |   |       | 
|First Quarter                |  | $     | 10.10 |     |  | $ | 6.00  | 
|Second Quarter               |  | $     | 11.70 |     |  | $ | 6.85  | 
|Third Quarter                |  | $     | 12.19 |     |  | $ | 9.00  | 
|Fourth Quarter               |  | $     | 11.50 |     |  | $ | 9.21  | 
|Year ended December 31, 2004 |  |       |       |     |  |   |       | 
|First Quarter                |  | $     | 13.25 |     |  | $ | 10.47 | 
|Second Quarter               |  | $     | 12.44 |     |  | $ | 10.26 | 
|Third Quarter                |  | $     | 13.65 |     |  | $ | 10.97 | 
|Fourth Quarter               |  | $     | 14.60 |     |  | $ | 12.43 | 



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|Item 6. | Selected Financial Data

SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA (HISTORICAL)




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|----------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------- | ---- | ------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------- | --------- | --------- | - | ------- | --------- | ------- | - | ------- | --------- | ------- | - | ------- | ------- | 
|                                                                        |                            | Years Ended December 31,                                
|                                                                        |                            |                                                         
|                                                                        |                            | 2004                                                     |                   | 2003 |         | 2002      |           | 2001(1) |         | 2000(1)  
|                                                                        |                            |                                                          |                   |      |         |           |           |         |         |          
|                                                                        |                            | (in thousands, except per share data)                   
|Income Statement Data:                                                  |                            |                                                          |                   |      |         |           |           |         |         |           |           |   |         |           |         |   |         |           |         |  
|                                                                        | Revenues and other income: |                                                          |                   |      |         |           |           |         |         |           |           |   |         |           |         |   |         |           |         |   |        
|                                                                        |                            | U.S. rentals                                             |                   | $    | 341,570 |           |           | $       | 324,186 |           |           | $ | 328,600 |           |         | $ | 269,679 |           |         | $ | 172,517 |        
|                                                                        |                            | International rentals                                    |                   |      | 214,598 |           |           |         | 191,301 |           |           |   | 175,337 |           |         |   | 116,990 |           |         |   | 65,165  |        
|                                                                        |                            | Parts, service and used equipment                        |                   |      | 180,321 |           |           |         | 164,935 |           |           |   | 223,685 |           |         |   | 214,867 |           |         |   | 113,526 |        
|                                                                        |                            | Compressor and accessory fabrication                     |                   |      | 158,629 |           |           |         | 106,896 |           |           |   | 114,009 |           |         |   | 223,519 |           |         |   | 90,270  |        
|                                                                        |                            | Production and processing equipment fabrication          |                   |      | 270,284 |           |           |         | 260,660 |           |           |   | 149,656 |           |         |   | 184,040 |           |         |   | 79,121  |        
|                                                                        |                            | Equity in income of non-consolidated affiliates          |                   |      | 19,780  |           |           |         | 23,014  |           |           |   | 18,554  |           |         |   | 9,607   |           |         |   | 2,568   |        
|                                                                        |                            | Gain on change in interest in non-consolidated affiliate |                   |      |        |           |           |         |        |           |           |   |        |           |         |   |        |           |         |   | 864     |        
|                                                                        |                            | Other                                                    |                   |      | 3,413   |           |           |         | 4,088   |           |           |   | 3,600   |           |         |   | 7,796   |           |         |   | 6,655   |        
|                                                                        |                            |                                                          |                   |      |         |           |           |         |         |           |           |   |         |           |         |   |         |           |         |  
|                                                                        |                            |                                                          | Total revenues(2) |      |         | 1,188,595 |           |         |         | 1,075,080 |           |   |         | 1,013,441 |         |   |         | 1,026,498 |         |   |         | 530,686 | 
|                                                                        |                            |                                                          |                   |      |         |           |           |         |         |           |           |   |         |           |         |   |         |           |         |  
|                                                                        | Expenses:                  |                                                          |                   |      |         |           |           |         |         |           |           |   |         |           |         |   |         |           |         |   |        
|                                                                        |                            | U.S. rentals                                             |                   |      | 144,580 |           |           |         | 127,425 |           |           |   | 122,172 |           |         |   | 95,203  |           |         |   | 60,336  |        
|                                                                        |                            | International rentals                                    |                   |      | 63,953  |           |           |         | 61,875  |           |           |   | 52,996  |           |         |   | 41,095  |           |         |   | 23,651  |        
|                                                                        |                            | Parts, service and used equipment                        |                   |      | 135,929 |           |           |         | 123,255 |           |           |   | 179,843 |           |         |   | 152,701 |           |         |   | 79,958  |        
|                                                                        |                            | Compressor and accessory fabrication                     |                   |      | 144,832 |           |           |         | 96,922  |           |           |   | 99,446  |           |         |   | 188,122 |           |         |   | 76,754  |        
|                                                                        |                            | Production and processing equipment fabrication          |                   |      | 242,251 |           |           |         | 234,203 |           |           |   | 127,442 |           |         |   | 147,824 |           |         |   | 62,684  |        
|                                                                        |                            | Selling, general and administrative                      |                   |      | 173,066 |           |           |         | 159,870 |           |           |   | 150,863 |           |         |   | 90,214  |           |         |   | 50,336  |        
|                                                                        |                            | Foreign currency translation                             |                   |      | (5,222  | )         |           |         | 2,548   |           |           |   | 16,727  |           |         |   | 6,658   |           |         |   |        |        
|                                                                        |                            | Provision for cost of litigation settlement(3)           |                   |      | (4,163  | )         |           |         | 42,991  |           |           |   |        |           |         |   |        |           |         |   |        |        
|                                                                        |                            | Other                                                    |                   |      | 407     |           |           |         | 2,906   |           |           |   | 27,607  |           |         |   | 9,727   |           |         |   |        |        
|                                                                        |                            | Depreciation and amortization(4)(5)                      |                   |      | 175,308 |           |           |         | 169,164 |           |           |   | 148,141 |           |         |   | 85,762  |           |         |   | 48,896  |        
|                                                                        |                            | Goodwill impairment(4)                                   |                   |      |        |           |           |         | 35,466  |           |           |   | 52,103  |           |         |   |        |           |         |   |        |        
|                                                                        |                            | Leasing expense(5)                                       |                   |      |        |           |           |         | 43,139  |           |           |   | 90,074  |           |         |   | 78,031  |           |         |   | 45,484  |        
|                                                                        |                            | Interest expense(5)                                      |                   |      | 146,978 |           |           |         | 89,175  |           |           |   | 43,352  |           |         |   | 23,904  |           |         |   | 15,048  |        
|                                                                        |                            |                                                          |                   |      |         |           |           |         |         |           |           |   |         |           |         |   |         |           |         |  
|                                                                        |                            |                                                          | 1,217,919         |      |         |           | 1,188,939 |         |         |           | 1,110,766 |   |         |           | 919,241 |   |         |           | 463,147 |  
|                                                                        |                            |                                                          |                   |      |         |           |           |         |         |           |           |   |         |           |         |   |         |           |         |  
|Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes            |                            |                                                          | (29,324           | )    |         |           | (113,859  | )       |         |           | (97,325   | ) |         |           | 107,257 |   |         |           | 67,539  |  
|Provision for (benefit from) income taxes                               |                            |                                                          | 24,767            |      |         |           | 3,629     |         |         |           | (17,114   | ) |         |           | 40,777  |   |         |           | 26,114  |  
|                                                                        |                            |                                                          |                   |      |         |           |           |         |         |           |           |   |         |           |         |   |         |           |         |  
|Income (loss) from continuing operations                                |                            |                                                          | (54,091           | )    |         |           | (117,488  | )       |         |           | (80,211   | ) |         |           | 66,480  |   |         |           | 41,425  |  
|Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax(2)               |                            |                                                          | 10,085            |      |         |           | (3,861    | )       |         |           | (35,857   | ) |         |           | 6,097   |   |         |           | 8,214   |  
|Cumulative effect of accounting change, net of tax(4)                   |                            |                                                          |                  |      |         |           | (86,910   | )       |         |           |          |   |         |           | (164    | ) |         |           |        |  
|                                                                        |                            |                                                          |                   |      |         |           |           |         |         |           |           |   |         |           |         |   |         |           |         |  
|Net income (loss)                                                       |                            | $                                                        | (44,006           | )    |         | $         | (208,259  | )       |         | $         | (116,068  | ) |         | $         | 72,413  |   |         | $         | 49,639  |  
|                                                                        |                            |                                                          |                   |      |         |           |           |         |         |           |           |   |         |           |         |   |         |           |         |  
|Earnings (loss) per common share:                                       |                            |                                                          |                   |      |         |           |           |         |         |           |           |   |         |           |         |   |         |           |         |  
|Basic earnings (loss) per common share from continuing operations       |                            | $                                                        | (0.64             | )    |         | $         | (1.45     | )       |         | $         | (1.01     | ) |         | $         | 0.92    |   |         | $         | 0.67    |  
|                                                                        |                            |                                                          |                   |      |         |           |           |         |         |           |           |   |         |           |         |   |         |           |         |  
|Diluted earnings (loss) per common share from continuing
    operations |                            | $                                                        | (0.64             | )    |         | $         | (1.45     | )       |         | $         | (1.01     | ) |         | $         | 0.82    |   |         | $         | 0.62    |  
|                                                                        |                            |                                                          |                   |      |         |           |           |         |         |           |           |   |         |           |         |   |         |           |         |  
|Weighted average common and common equivalent shares:                   |                            |                                                          |                   |      |         |           |           |         |         |           |           |   |         |           |         |   |         |           |         |  
|Basic                                                                   |                            |                                                          | 84,792            |      |         |           | 81,123    |         |         |           | 79,500    |   |         |           | 72,355  |   |         |           | 61,831  |  
|                                                                        |                            |                                                          |                   |      |         |           |           |         |         |           |           |   |         |           |         |   |         |           |         |  
|Diluted                                                                 |                            |                                                          | 84,792            |      |         |           | 81,123    |         |         |           | 79,500    |   |         |           | 81,175  |   |         |           | 66,366  |  
|                                                                        |                            |                                                          |                   |      |         |           |           |         |         |           |           |   |         |           |         |   |         |           |         |  

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|                                    |                                                                         |                          |   |           |   |      |   |           |   |         |   |           |   |  |   |           |   |  |   |           |  
|----------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | - | --------- | - | ---- | - | --------- | - | ------- | - | --------- | - |  | - | --------- | - |  | - | --------- | -
|                                    |                                                                         | Years Ended December 31,
|                                    |                                                                         |                         
|                                    |                                                                         | 2004                     |   | 2003      |   | 2002 |   | 2001(1)   |   | 2000(1)
|                                    |                                                                         |                          |   |           |   |      |   |           |   |        
|                                    |                                                                         | (in thousands)          
|Cash flows provided by (used in):   |                                                                         |                          |   |           |   |      |   |           |   |         |   |           |   |  |   |           |   |  |   |          
|                                    | Operating activities                                                    |                          | $ | 131,837   |   |      | $ | 164,735   |   |         | $ | 195,717   |   |  | $ | 152,774   |   |  | $ | 29,746    |  
|                                    | Investing activities                                                    |                          |   | 11,129    |   |      |   | (43,470   | ) |         |   | (193,703  | ) |  |   | (482,277  | ) |  |   | (67,481   | )
|                                    | Financing activities                                                    |                          |   | (162,350  | ) |      |   | (84,457   | ) |         |   | (4,232    | ) |  |   | 307,259   |   |  |   | 77,589    |  
|Balance Sheet Data (end of period): |                                                                         |                          |   |           |   |      |   |           |   |         |   |           |   |  |   |           |   |  |   |          
|                                    | Working capital                                                         |                          | $ | 303,110   |   |      | $ | 279,050   |   |         | $ | 218,398   |   |  | $ | 284,619   |   |  | $ | 285,344   |  
|                                    | Net property, plant and equipment(5)                                    |                          |   | 1,877,041 |   |      |   | 2,027,654 |   |         |   | 1,167,675 |   |  |   | 1,151,513 |   |  |   | 574,703   |  
|                                    | Total assets(5)                                                         |                          |   | 2,762,163 |   |      |   | 2,942,274 |   |         |   | 2,176,983 |   |  |   | 2,275,321 |   |  |   | 1,248,786 |  
|                                    | Debt and mandatorily redeemable convertible preferred
    securities(5) |                          |   | 1,643,616 |   |      |   | 1,782,823 |   |         |   | 641,194   |   |  |   | 596,063   |   |  |   | 199,608   |  
|                                    | Common stockholders equity                                             |                          |   | 760,055   |   |      |   | 753,488   |   |         |   | 927,626   |   |  |   | 1,039,468 |   |  |   | 628,947   |  






|    |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
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|(1) | During 2002, we announced a series of restatements that
    ultimately reduced our initially reported pre-tax income by
    $0.4 million, or 0.3%, for the year ended December 31,
    2001 and $14.5 million, or 15.5%, for the year ended
    December 31, 2000, although certain restatements resulted
    in a larger percentage adjustment on a quarterly basis. Amounts
    have been adjusted to reflect such restatements.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
|   
|(2) | We have grown as a result of internal growth and acquisitions.
    For a description of significant business acquisitions, see
    Note 2 in Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in
    Item 15 of this Form 10-K. In the fourth quarter of
    2002, we decided to discontinue certain businesses. In November
    2004, we sold the compression rental assets of our Canadian
    subsidiary for approximately $56.9 million. Additionally,
    in December 2004 we sold our ownership interest in CES for
    approximately $2.6 million to an entity owned by Steven
    Collicutt. Hanover owned approximately 2.6 million shares
    in CES, which represented approximately 24.1% of the ownership
    interest of CES. These businesses are reflected as discontinued
    operations in our consolidated statement of operations. For a
    description of discontinued operations, see Note 3 in Notes
    to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 15 of this
    Form 10-K.
|   
|(3) | On October 23, 2003, we entered into a Stipulation of
    Settlement, which became final on March 10, 2004 and
    settled all of the claims underlying the putative securities
    class action, the putative ERISA class action and the
    shareholder derivative actions discussed in
    Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
    Condition and Results of Operations  Year Ended
    December 31, 2003 Compared to Year Ended December 31,
    2002  Provision for Cost of Litigation
    Settlement in Item 7 of this Form 10-K.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
|   
|(4) | In June 2001, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting
    Standards 142, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets
    (SFAS 142). Under SFAS 142, amortization
    of goodwill to earnings was discontinued. Instead, goodwill is
    reviewed for impairment annually or whenever events indicate
    impairment may have occurred. SFAS 142 was effective for us
    on January 1, 2002. For financial data relating to our
    goodwill, see Note 9 in Notes to the Consolidated Financial
    Statements in Item 15 of this Form 10-K.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
|   
|(5) | In accordance with FASB Interpretation No. 46,
    Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, an
    interpretation of ARB 51 as revised in December 2003
    (FIN 46), for periods ending after
    June 30, 2003, we have included in our consolidated
    financial statements the special purpose entities that lease
    compression equipment to us. As a result, on July 1, 2003,
    we added approximately $897 million of compression
    equipment assets, net of accumulated depreciation, and
    approximately $1,139.6 million of our compression equipment
    lease obligations (including approximately $1,105.0 million
    in debt) to our balance sheet. See Managements
    Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
    Operations  Leasing Transactions and Accounting
    Change for FIN 46 in Item 7 of this
    Form 10-K.                                                                                                                     

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|        |                                                                                          
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|Item 7. | Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
    Condition and Results of Operations



Overview






| |                       
| | ----------------------
| | Impact of Rapid Growth







| |                       
| | ----------------------
| | Management Initiatives





| |   |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
| | - | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| |  | Successfully implementing our new organizational
    structure. Hanover has developed three U.S. and four
    international geographic business units (GBUs). Our
    GBU managers have been given the authority to operate their
    business unit with profit and loss responsibility. Equally
    important, the GBU structure allows us to be closer to our
    customers in the key regions of the world in which we operate
    and the ability to react more timely as new opportunities arise.
    This allows us to better provide our full offering of products
    and services to our clients on a local basis.

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| |  | Expanding existing products and services into new
    markets. While continuing to take advantage of the promising
    growth opportunities presented to us in our traditional U.S. and
    Latin America markets, we are committed to establishing a
    presence in new, emerging areas for natural gas development.
    During the year we opened offices in Nigeria, Russia, and the
    Middle East. Long term, we believe there are tremendous growth
    opportunities in these markets, especially for a broader scope
    of Hanovers products and services. We believe our GBU
    structure will enhance our ability to deliver into these
    emerging markets.                                                                                                                                                                                              
|
| |  | Moving beyond compression. We have continued to develop
    and deliver products and services that extend beyond the rental
    of compression equipment. As we move forward, we are seeing new
    opportunities driven more by our ability to deliver a total
    solution rather than just a single product. A total solution
    will typically incorporate multiple Hanover product offerings,
    including compression, production and/or processing equipment,
    engineering, installation, and operating services.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
|
| |  | Focused approach to core operations. In an effort to
    intensify our focus on our core business, during 2004 we sold
    our used equipment business, a gas-driven power generation
    turbine, two fabrication facilities, and our Canadian
    compression rental operations, generating net cash proceeds of
    approximately $77.6 million that was utilized to reduce our
    debt. In 2003, we sold our interests in two non-oilfield power
    generation facilities for approximately $27.2 million,
    consisting of $6.4 million in cash, $3.3 million in
    notes (of which $2.8 matured and was paid in 2004 and $0.5
    matures in 2005) and our release from a capital lease that had
    an outstanding balance of approximately $17.5 million.
    These businesses or assets were sold because they were not core
    to our long-term objectives.
|
| |  | Maintaining a commitment to capital discipline and debt
    reduction. For 2004, Hanover had capital expenditures,
    including business acquisitions, of $90.5 million compared
    to $157.5 million in 2003 and $259.6 million in 2002.
    Additionally, during 2004 we reduced our debt and compressor
    lease obligations by approximately $149.1 million. Hanover
    is committed to continuing to reduce our leverage and to manage
    our capital under a disciplined, return-focused approach. While
    we plan to spend more in 2005 on growth opportunities, we intend
    this capital spending to be balanced with debt reduction from
    cash flow and to be approved under strict return-on-capital
    guidelines.                                                                                                                                





| |   |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
| | - | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| |  | Develop international opportunities. International
    markets continue to represent the greatest growth opportunity
    for our business. We believe that these markets are underserved
    in the area of the products and services we offer. In addition,
    we typically see higher risk adjusted returns in international
    markets relative to the United States. We intend to allocate
    additional resources toward international markets, to open
    offices abroad, where appropriate, and to move idle
    U.S. units into service in international markets, where
    applicable.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
|
| |  | Focus on process improvement. We believe we are well
    positioned to grow our business organically and to capitalize
    upon several existing opportunities in order to generate
    increasing returns on the capital we have deployed. We intend to
    take advantage of our recently implemented enterprise resource
    planning system platform to help us better evaluate our markets
    and business opportunities and make more informed and timely
    decisions. We plan to develop a more disciplined and systematic
    approach to evaluating return on capital, exercising cost
    controls and operating and managing our business. In addition,
    we will continue to take the best practices from across our
    organization and formalizing these practices into common
    company-wide standards that we expect will bring improved
    operating and financial performance.
|
| |  | Continue our capital discipline. We plan to continue our
    capital discipline by lowering the working capital we have
    deployed and reducing our substantial level of debt with both
    excess operating cash flow and proceeds from asset sales. We are
    also focused on improving the management of our working capital
    by lowering the number of days outstanding for our accounts
    receivable and reducing inventory levels. To reduce debt, we are
    committed to under-spending cash flow, and we                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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| |   | are currently planning to allocate approximately
    $180 million of our cash flow generated from 2004 through
    2006 to debt repayment. During 2004, we used cash flows from
    operations and asset sales to decrease our outstanding debt by
    approximately $149 million.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
|
| |  | Continue to improve our U.S. fleet utilization. By
    limiting the addition of new units, moving idle U.S. units
    into service in international markets and retiring less
    profitable units, we plan to continue to improve our
    U.S. fleet utilization.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
|
| |  | Increase prices selectively for our U.S. rental
    business. In early 2003, we began to selectively introduce
    price increases for our U.S. compression rental business.
    Such price increases, along with a slight improvement in market
    conditions, resulted in a 5% increase in revenue from our
    U.S. rentals business in the year ended December 31,
    2004 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2003. We
    are in the process of implementing additional price increases
    for our U.S. compression rental business as market conditions
    allow.



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| | -------------------
| | Industry Conditions







| |                   
| | ------------------
| | Summary of Results

Net losses.


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Results by Segment.


|                           |                                                 |                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |         |  
|-------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | --------- | ------- | - | ---- | --------- | ------- | - | - | --------- | ------- | -
|                           |                                                 | Years ended December 31,
|                           |                                                 |                         
|                           |                                                 | 2004                     |           | 2003    |   | 2002
|                           |                                                 |                          |           |         |   |     
|Revenues and other income: |                                                 |                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|                           | U.S. rentals                                    |                          | $         | 341,570 |   |      | $         | 324,186 |   |   | $         | 328,600 |  
|                           | International rentals                           |                          |           | 214,598 |   |      |           | 191,301 |   |   |           | 175,337 |  
|                           | Parts, service and used equipment               |                          |           | 180,321 |   |      |           | 164,935 |   |   |           | 223,685 |  
|                           | Compressor and accessory fabrication            |                          |           | 158,629 |   |      |           | 106,896 |   |   |           | 114,009 |  
|                           | Production and processing equipment fabrication |                          |           | 270,284 |   |      |           | 260,660 |   |   |           | 149,656 |  
|                           | Equity in income of non-consolidated affiliate  |                          |           | 19,780  |   |      |           | 23,014  |   |   |           | 18,554  |  
|                           | Other                                           |                          |           | 3,413   |   |      |           | 4,088   |   |   |           | 3,600   |  
|                           |                                                 |                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|                           |                                                 | $                        | 1,188,595 |         |   | $    | 1,075,080 |         |   | $ | 1,013,441 |        
|                           |                                                 |                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|Expenses:                  |                                                 |                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|                           | U.S. rentals                                    |                          | $         | 144,580 |   |      | $         | 127,425 |   |   | $         | 122,172 |  
|                           | International rentals                           |                          |           | 63,953  |   |      |           | 61,875  |   |   |           | 52,996  |  
|                           | Parts, service and used equipment               |                          |           | 135,929 |   |      |           | 123,255 |   |   |           | 179,843 |  
|                           | Compressor and accessory fabrication            |                          |           | 144,832 |   |      |           | 96,922  |   |   |           | 99,446  |  
|                           | Production and processing equipment fabrication |                          |           | 242,251 |   |      |           | 234,203 |   |   |           | 127,442 |  
|                           |                                                 |                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|                           |                                                 | $                        | 731,545   |         |   | $    | 643,680   |         |   | $ | 581,899   |        
|                           |                                                 |                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|Gross profit margin:       |                                                 |                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|                           | U.S. rentals                                    |                          |           | 58      | % |      |           | 61      | % |   |           | 63      | %
|                           | International rentals                           |                          |           | 70      | % |      |           | 68      | % |   |           | 70      | %
|                           | Parts, service and used equipment               |                          |           | 25      | % |      |           | 25      | % |   |           | 20      | %
|                           | Compressor and accessory fabrication            |                          |           | 9       | % |      |           | 9       | % |   |           | 13      | %
|                           | Production and processing equipment fabrication |                          |           | 10      | % |      |           | 10      | % |   |           | 15      | %



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| | Facility Consolidation





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| | ---------------------------------------
| | Securities Litigation And Investigation







Critical Accounting Estimates




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| | Allowances and Reserves







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| | ----------
| | Tax Assets









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| | Revenue Recognition  Percentage of Completion
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| | ----------------------------
| | Contingencies and Litigation





Year Ended December 31, 2004 Compared to Year Ended
December 31, 2003




| |        
| | -------
| | Summary





|                                                                             |       |   |        |      |  
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----- | - | ------ | ---- | -
|Securities-related litigation settlement                                     |       | $ | (4,163 | )   
|Write-off of deferred financing costs (in Depreciation and
    amortization) |       |   | 1,686  |     
|Cancellation of interest rate swap (in Interest expense)                     |       |   | 2,028  |     
|                                                                             |       |   |        |     
|                                                                             | Total |   | $      | (449 | )
|                                                                             |       |   |        |     



|                                                                             |       |   |         |         | 
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----- | - | ------- | ------- | 
|Rental fleet asset impairment (in Depreciation and amortization)             |       | $ | 14,334  |        
|Cumulative effect of accounting change-FIN 46                                |       |   | 133,707 |        
|Securities-related litigation settlement                                     |       |   | 42,991  |        
|Belleli goodwill impairment (in Goodwill impairment)                         |       |   | 35,466  |        
|Write-off of deferred financing costs (in Depreciation and
    amortization) |       |   | 2,461   |        
|Loss on sale/write-down of discontinued operations                           |       |   | 21,617  |        
|                                                                             |       |   |         |        
|                                                                             | Total |   | $       | 250,576 | 
|                                                                             |       |   |         |        

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| | ------------------------
| | Business Segment Results

U.S. Rentals




|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |      | 
|----------------- |  | ------------------------ | ------- | -------- |  | ---------- | ------- |  |  |  | ---- | 
|                  |  | Years Ended December 31, |         |         
|                  |  |                          |         | Increase
|                  |  | 2004                     |         | 2003     |  | (Decrease)
|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |           
|Revenue           |  | $                        | 341,570 |          |  | $          | 324,186 |  |  |  | 5%   | 
|Operating expense |  |                          | 144,580 |          |  |            | 127,425 |  |  |  | 13%  | 
|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |      | 
|Gross profit      |  | $                        | 196,990 |          |  | $          | 196,761 |  |  |  | 0%   | 
|Gross margin      |  |                          | 58%     |          |  |            | 61%     |  |  |  | (3)% | 



International Rentals




|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |     | 
|----------------- |  | ------------------------ | ------- | -------- |  | ---------- | ------- |  |  |  | --- | 
|                  |  | Years Ended December 31, |         |         
|                  |  |                          |         | Increase
|                  |  | 2004                     |         | 2003     |  | (Decrease)
|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |           
|Revenue           |  | $                        | 214,598 |          |  | $          | 191,301 |  |  |  | 12% | 
|Operating expense |  |                          | 63,953  |          |  |            | 61,875  |  |  |  | 3%  | 
|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |     | 
|Gross profit      |  | $                        | 150,645 |          |  | $          | 129,426 |  |  |  | 16% | 
|Gross margin      |  |                          | 70%     |          |  |            | 68%     |  |  |  | 2%  | 



Parts, Service and Used Equipment




|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |     | 
|----------------- |  | ------------------------ | ------- | -------- |  | ---------- | ------- |  |  |  | --- | 
|                  |  | Years Ended December 31, |         |         
|                  |  |                          |         | Increase
|                  |  | 2004                     |         | 2003     |  | (Decrease)
|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |           
|Revenue           |  | $                        | 180,321 |          |  | $          | 164,935 |  |  |  | 9%  | 
|Operating expense |  |                          | 135,929 |          |  |            | 123,255 |  |  |  | 10% | 
|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |     | 
|Gross profit      |  | $                        | 44,392  |          |  | $          | 41,680  |  |  |  | 7%  | 
|Gross margin      |  |                          | 25%     |          |  |            | 25%     |  |  |  | 0%  | 



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Compression and Accessory Fabrication




|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |     | 
|----------------- |  | ------------------------ | ------- | -------- |  | ---------- | ------- |  |  |  | --- | 
|                  |  | Years Ended December 31, |         |         
|                  |  |                          |         | Increase
|                  |  | 2004                     |         | 2003     |  | (Decrease)
|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |           
|Revenue           |  | $                        | 158,629 |          |  | $          | 106,896 |  |  |  | 48% | 
|Operating Expense |  |                          | 144,832 |          |  |            | 96,922  |  |  |  | 49% | 
|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |     | 
|Gross Profit      |  | $                        | 13,797  |          |  | $          | 9,974   |  |  |  | 38% | 
|Gross Margin      |  |                          | 9%      |          |  |            | 9%      |  |  |  | 0%  | 



Production and Processing Equipment Fabrication




|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |    | 
|----------------- |  | ------------------------ | ------- | -------- |  | ---------- | ------- |  |  |  | -- | 
|                  |  | Years Ended December 31, |         |         
|                  |  |                          |         | Increase
|                  |  | 2004                     |         | 2003     |  | (Decrease)
|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |           
|Revenue           |  | $                        | 270,284 |          |  | $          | 260,660 |  |  |  | 4% | 
|Operating expense |  |                          | 242,251 |          |  |            | 234,203 |  |  |  | 3% | 
|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |    | 
|Gross profit      |  | $                        | 28,033  |          |  | $          | 26,457  |  |  |  | 6% | 
|Gross margin      |  |                          | 10%     |          |  |            | 10%     |  |  |  | 0% | 





| |              
| | -------------
| | Other Revenue





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| |         
| | --------
| | Expenses











|                    |                      |              |       |       |  |   |        |        |  
|------------------- | -------------------- | ------------ | ----- | ----- |  | - | ------ | ------ | -
|                    |                      | Year Ended  
|                    |                      | December 31,
|                    |                      |             
|                    |                      | 2004         |       | 2003 
|                    |                      |              |       |      
|Italy               |                      | $            | 4,170 |       |  | $ | 221    |       
|Argentina           |                      |              | (624  | )     |  |   | 494    |       
|Venezuela           |                      |              | 1,165 |       |  |   | (2,443 | )     
|All other countries |                      |              | 511   |       |  |   | (820   | )     
|                    |                      |              |       |       |  |   |        |       
|                    | Exchange gain (loss) |              | $     | 5,222 |  |   | $      | (2,548 | )
|                    |                      |              |       |       |  |   |        |       





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| |                                               
| | ----------------------------------------------
| | Provision for Securities Litigation Settlement







| |             
| | ------------
| | Income Taxes







| |                        
| | -----------------------
| | Discontinued Operations



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| |                                       
| | --------------------------------------
| | Cumulative Effect of Accounting Change







Year Ended December 31, 2003 Compared to Year Ended
December 31, 2002




| |        
| | -------
| | Summary



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|                                                                                              |       |   |         |         | 
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----- | - | ------- | ------- | 
|Rental fleet asset impairment (in Depreciation and amortization)                              |       | $ | 14,334  |        
|Cumulative effect of accounting change-FIN 46                                                 |       |   | 133,707 |        
|Securities-related litigation settlement (in Provision for cost
    of litigation settlement) |       |   | 42,991  |        
|Belleli goodwill impairment (in Goodwill impairment)                                          |       |   | 35,466  |        
|Write-off of deferred financing costs (in Depreciation and
    amortization)                  |       |   | 2,461   |        
|Loss on sale/write-down of discontinued operations                                            |       |   | 21,617  |        
|                                                                                              |       |   |         |        
|                                                                                              | Total |   | $       | 250,576 | 
|                                                                                              |       |   |         |        



|                                                                                                      |       |   |        |         | 
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----- | - | ------ | ------- | 
|Inventory reserves (in Parts and service and used equipment
    expense)                              |       | $ | 6,800  |        
|Severance and other charges (in Selling, general and
    administrative)                              |       |   | 6,160  |        
|Write off of idle equipment and assets to be sold or abandoned
    (in Depreciation and amortization) |       |   | 34,485 |        
|Goodwill impairments (in Goodwill impairment)                                                         |       |   | 52,103 |        
|Non-consolidated affiliate write-downs/charges (in Other expense)                                     |       |   | 15,950 |        
|Write-down of discontinued operations                                                                 |       |   | 58,282 |        
|Note receivable reserves (in Other expense)                                                           |       |   | 8,454  |        
|Write-off of abandoned purchase option (in Other expense)                                             |       |   | 500    |        
|                                                                                                      |       |   |        |        
|                                                                                                      | Total |   | $      | 182,734 | 
|                                                                                                      |       |   |        |        



| |                         
| | ------------------------
| | Business Segment Results

U.S. Rentals




|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |      | 
|----------------- |  | ------------------------ | ------- | -------- |  | ---------- | ------- |  |  |  | ---- | 
|                  |  | Years Ended December 31, |         |         
|                  |  |                          |         | Increase
|                  |  | 2003                     |         | 2002     |  | (Decrease)
|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |           
|Revenue           |  | $                        | 324,186 |          |  | $          | 328,600 |  |  |  | (1)% | 
|Operating expense |  |                          | 127,425 |          |  |            | 122,172 |  |  |  | 4%   | 
|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |      | 
|Gross profit      |  | $                        | 196,761 |          |  | $          | 206,428 |  |  |  | (5)% | 
|Gross margin      |  |                          | 61%     |          |  |            | 63%     |  |  |  | (2)% | 



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International Rentals




|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |      | 
|----------------- |  | ------------------------ | ------- | -------- |  | ---------- | ------- |  |  |  | ---- | 
|                  |  | Years Ended December 31, |         |         
|                  |  |                          |         | Increase
|                  |  | 2003                     |         | 2002     |  | (Decrease)
|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |           
|Revenue           |  | $                        | 191,301 |          |  | $          | 175,337 |  |  |  | 9%   | 
|Operating expense |  |                          | 61,875  |          |  |            | 52,996  |  |  |  | 17%  | 
|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |      | 
|Gross profit      |  | $                        | 129,426 |          |  | $          | 122,341 |  |  |  | 6%   | 
|Gross margin      |  |                          | 68%     |          |  |            | 70%     |  |  |  | (2)% | 





Parts, Service and Used Equipment




|                  |  |              |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |       | 
|----------------- |  | ------------ | ------- | -------- |  | ---------- | ------- |  |  |  | ----- | 
|                  |  | Years Ended  |         |         
|                  |  | December 31, |         |         
|                  |  |              |         | Increase
|                  |  | 2003         |         | 2002     |  | (Decrease)
|                  |  |              |         |          |  |           
|Revenue           |  | $            | 164,935 |          |  | $          | 223,685 |  |  |  | (26)% | 
|Operating expense |  |              | 123,255 |          |  |            | 179,843 |  |  |  | (31)% | 
|                  |  |              |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |       | 
|Gross profit      |  | $            | 41,680  |          |  | $          | 43,842  |  |  |  | (5)%  | 
|Gross margin      |  |              | 25%     |          |  |            | 20%     |  |  |  | 5%    | 



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Compression and Accessory Fabrication




|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |       | 
|----------------- |  | ------------------------ | ------- | -------- |  | ---------- | ------- |  |  |  | ----- | 
|                  |  | Years Ended December 31, |         |         
|                  |  |                          |         | Increase
|                  |  | 2003                     |         | 2002     |  | (Decrease)
|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |           
|Revenue           |  | $                        | 106,896 |          |  | $          | 114,009 |  |  |  | (6)%  | 
|Operating Expense |  |                          | 96,922  |          |  |            | 99,446  |  |  |  | (3)%  | 
|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |       | 
|Gross Profit      |  | $                        | 9,974   |          |  | $          | 14,563  |  |  |  | (32)% | 
|Gross Margin      |  |                          | 9%      |          |  |            | 13%     |  |  |  | (4)%  | 



Production and Processing Equipment Fabrication




|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |      | 
|----------------- |  | ------------------------ | ------- | -------- |  | ---------- | ------- |  |  |  | ---- | 
|                  |  | Years Ended December 31, |         |         
|                  |  |                          |         | Increase
|                  |  | 2003                     |         | 2002     |  | (Decrease)
|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |           
|Revenue           |  | $                        | 260,660 |          |  | $          | 149,656 |  |  |  | 74%  | 
|Operating expense |  |                          | 234,203 |          |  |            | 127,442 |  |  |  | 84%  | 
|                  |  |                          |         |          |  |            |         |  |  |  |      | 
|Gross profit      |  | $                        | 26,457  |          |  | $          | 22,214  |  |  |  | 19%  | 
|Gross margin      |  |                          | 10%     |          |  |            | 15%     |  |  |  | (5)% | 





| |              
| | -------------
| | Other Revenue





| |         
| | --------
| | Expenses





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| |                                               
| | ----------------------------------------------
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|                                          |  |   |         |  
|----------------------------------------- |  | - | ------- | -
|Cash                                      |  | $ | 30,050  |  
|Estimated fair value of note to be issued |  |   | 3,633   |  
|Common stock to be issued by Hanover      |  |   | 29,800  |  
|Legal fees and administrative costs       |  |   | 6,178   |  
|                                          |  |   |         |  
|Total                                     |  |   | 69,661  |  
|Less: insurance recoveries                |  |   | (26,670 | )
|                                          |  |   |         |  
|Net litigation settlement                 |  | $ | 42,991  |  
|                                          |  |   |         |  





| |             
| | ------------
| | Income Taxes



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| |                        
| | -----------------------
| | Discontinued Operations





| |                                                      
| | -----------------------------------------------------
| | Cumulative Effect of Accounting Change for
    FIN 46



Leasing Transactions and Accounting Change for FIN 46








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|             |  |           |         |                  |  |            |                |  |  |   |        | 
|------------ |  | --------- | ------- | ---------------- |  | ---------- | -------------- |  |  | - | ------ | 
|             |  | Residual  |         |                  |  | Minority  
|             |  | Value     |         | Lease            |  | Interest  
|             |  | Guarantee |         | Termination Date |  | Obligation
|Lease        |  |           |         |                  |  |           
|October 2000 |  | $         | 47,482  |                  |  |            | October 2005   |  |  | $ | 1,728  | 
|August 2001  |  |           | 232,000 |                  |  |            | September 2008 |  |  |   | 9,300  | 
|August 2001  |  |           | 175,000 |                  |  |            | September 2011 |  |  |   | 7,750  | 
|             |  |           |         |                  |  |            |                |  |  |   |        | 
|             |  | $         | 454,482 |                  |  |            |                |  |  | $ | 18,778 | 
|             |  |           |         |                  |  |            |                |  |  |   |        | 







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Liquidity and Capital Resources






|                                                             |  |      |          |      |  |   |         |  
|------------------------------------------------------------ |  | ---- | -------- | ---- |  | - | ------- | -
|For the Year Ended December 31:                              |  | 2004 |          | 2003
|                                                             |  |      |          |     
|Net cash provided by (used in) continuing operations:        |  |      |          |      |  |   |         |  
|Operating activities                                         |  | $    | 123,722  |      |  | $ | 150,064 |  
|Investing activities                                         |  |      | (61,818  | )    |  |   | (70,866 | )
|Financing activities                                         |  |      | (162,350 | )    |  |   | (65,919 | )
|Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents |  |      | 841      |      |  |   | 800     |  
|Net cash provided by discontinued operations                 |  |      | 81,062   |      |  |   | 23,529  |  
|                                                             |  |      |          |      |  |   |         |  
|Net change in cash and cash equivalents                      |  | $    | (18,543  | )    |  | $ | 37,608  |  
|                                                             |  |      |          |      |  |   |         |  







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|                                                |                                                    |                      |           |         |           |           |         |           |        |            |         |         |         |   |         |         |         |   |           |         |         | 
|----------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | -------------------- | --------- | ------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | --------- | ------ | ---------- | ------- | ------- | ------- | - | ------- | ------- | ------- | - | --------- | ------- | ------- | 
|                                                |                                                    | Total                |           | 2005    |           | 2006-2007 |         | 2008-2009 |        | Thereafter
|Cash Contractual Obligations:                   |                                                    |                      |           |         |           |           |         |           |        |           
|                                                |                                                    | (In thousands)      
|Long term Debt(1)                               |                                                    |                      |           |         |           |           |         |           |        |            |         |         |         |   |         |         |         |   |           |        
|                                                | 4.75% convertible senior notes due 2008            |                      | $         | 192,000 |           |           | $       |          |        |            | $       |        |         |   | $       | 192,000 |         |   | $         |        |        
|                                                | 4.75% convertible senior notes due 2014            |                      |           | 143,750 |           |           |         |          |        |            |         |        |         |   |         |        |         |   |           | 143,750 |        
|                                                | 7.25% subordinated convertible securities due 2029 |                      |           | 86,250  |           |           |         |          |        |            |         |        |         |   |         |        |         |   |           | 86,250  |        
|                                                | 8.625% senior notes due 2010                       |                      |           | 200,000 |           |           |         |          |        |            |         |        |         |   |         |        |         |   |           | 200,000 |        
|                                                | 9.0% senior notes due 2014                         |                      |           | 200,000 |           |           |         |          |        |            |         |        |         |   |         |        |         |   |           | 200,000 |        
|                                                | 11% zero coupon subordinated notes due 2007(2)     |                      |           | 262,622 |           |           |         |          |        |            |         | 262,622 |         |   |         |        |         |   |           |        |        
|                                                | Bank credit facility due 2006                      |                      |           | 7,000   |           |           |         |          |        |            |         | 7,000   |         |   |         |        |         |   |           |        |        
|                                                | Other long-term debt                               |                      |           | 3,178   |           |           |         | 1,430     |        |            |         | 1,526   |         |   |         | 94      |         |   |           | 128     |        
|                                                | 2000B equipment lease notes, due 2005(3)           |                      |           | 55,861  |           |           |         | 55,861    |        |            |         |        |         |   |         |        |         |   |           |        |        
|                                                | 2001A equipment lease notes, due 2008              |                      |           | 300,000 |           |           |         |          |        |            |         |        |         |   |         | 300,000 |         |   |           |        |        
|                                                | 2001B equipment lease notes, due 2011              |                      |           | 250,000 |           |           |         |          |        |            |         |        |         |   |         |        |         |   |           | 250,000 |        
|                                                |                                                    |                      |           |         |           |           |         |           |        |            |         |         |         |   |         |         |         |   |           |        
|                                                |                                                    | Total long-term debt |           |         | 1,700,661 |           |         |           | 57,291 |            |         |         | 271,148 |   |         |         | 492,094 |   |           |         | 880,128 | 
|Interest on long-term debt(4)                   |                                                    |                      | 763,718   |         |           |           | 108,142 |           |        |            | 211,966 |         |         |   | 163,255 |         |         |   | 280,355   |        
|Minority interest obligations(1)(5)             |                                                    |                      | 18,778    |         |           |           | 1,728   |           |        |            |        |         |         |   | 9,300   |         |         |   | 7,750     |        
|Purchase commitments                            |                                                    |                      | 137,464   |         |           |           | 134,899 |           |        |            | 2,502   |         |         |   | 60      |         |         |   | 3         |        
|Facilities and other equipment operating leases |                                                    |                      | 9,371     |         |           |           | 2,955   |           |        |            | 3,883   |         |         |   | 1,671   |         |         |   | 862       |        
|                                                |                                                    |                      |           |         |           |           |         |           |        |            |         |         |         |   |         |         |         |   |           |        
|Total contractual cash obligations              |                                                    | $                    | 2,629,992 |         |           | $         | 305,015 |           |        | $          | 489,499 |         |         | $ | 666,380 |         |         | $ | 1,169,098 |        
|                                                |                                                    |                      |           |         |           |           |         |           |        |            |         |         |         |   |         |         |         |   |           |        






|    |                                                                                                                                                                                              
|--- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|(1) | For more information on our long-term debt and minority interest
    obligations, see Notes 11 and 12 to the Notes to
    Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 15 of this
    Form 10-K.
|   
|(2) | Balance payable at December 31, 2004, including 11%
    discount per annum, was $206.5 million.                                                                                              

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|    |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
|--- | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|(3) | During February 2005, we repaid the 2000B compressor equipment
    lease using borrowings from our bank credit facility.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
|   
|(4) | Interest amounts calculated using interest rates in effect as of
    December 31, 2004, including the effect of interest rate
    swaps. The interest amounts do not include original issue
    discount that accretes under our 11% zero coupon subordinated
    notes due 2007.                                                        
|   
|(5) | Represents third party equity interest of lease equipment trusts
    that was required to be consolidated into our financial
    statements. See Managements Discussion and Analysis
    of Financial Condition and Results of Operations 
    Leasing Transactions and Accounting Change for FIN 46
    in Item 7 of this Form 10-K.



Debt Refinancing.










Bank Credit Facility.


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Credit Ratings.


|                                                                        |  |         |  |          |        | 
|----------------------------------------------------------------------- |  | ------- |  | -------- | ------ | 
|                                                                        |  |         |  | Standard
|                                                                        |  | Moodys |  | & Poors
|                                                                        |  |         |  |         
|Outlook                                                                 |  | Stable  |  |          | Stable | 
|Senior implied rating                                                   |  | B1      |  |          | BB-    | 
|Liquidity Rating                                                        |  | SGL-3   |  |          |       | 
|Bank credit facility due December 2006                                  |  | Ba3     |  |          |       | 
|2001A equipment lease notes, interest at 8.5%, due September 2008       |  | B2      |  |          | B+     | 
|2001B equipment lease notes, interest at 8.8%, due September 2011       |  | B2      |  |          | B+     | 
|4.75% convertible senior notes due 2008                                 |  | B3      |  |          | B      | 
|4.75% convertible senior notes due 2014                                 |  | B3      |  |          | B      | 
|8.625% senior notes due 2010                                            |  | B3      |  |          | B      | 
|9.0% senior notes due 2014                                              |  | B3      |  |          | B      | 
|Zero coupon subordinated notes, interest at 11%, due
    March 31, 2007 |  | Caa1    |  |          | B-     | 
|7.25% convertible subordinated notes due 2029*                          |  | Caa1    |  |          | B-     | 






|  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
|- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|* | Rating is on the Mandatorily Redeemable Convertible Preferred
    Securities issued by Hanover Compressor Capital Trust, our
    wholly-owned subsidiary. Prior to adoption of FIN 46 in
    2003, these securities were reported on our balance sheet as
    mandatorily redeemable convertible preferred securities. Because
    we only have a limited ability to make decisions about its
    activities and we are not the primary beneficiary of the trust,
    the trust is a VIE under FIN 46. As such, the Mandatorily
    Redeemable Convertible Preferred Securities issued by the trust
    are no longer reported on our balance sheet. Instead, we now
    report our subordinated notes payable to the trust as a debt.
    These notes have previously been eliminated in our consolidated
    financial statements. The changes related to our Mandatorily
    Redeemable Convertible Preferred Securities for our balance
    sheet are reclassifications and had no impact on our
    consolidated results of operations or cash flow.



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|                    |                      |              |       |       |  |   |        |        |  
|------------------- | -------------------- | ------------ | ----- | ----- |  | - | ------ | ------ | -
|                    |                      | Year Ended  
|                    |                      | December 31,
|                    |                      |             
|                    |                      | 2004         |       | 2003 
|                    |                      |              |       |      
|Italy               |                      | $            | 4,170 |       |  | $ | 221    |       
|Argentina           |                      |              | (624  | )     |  |   | 494    |       
|Venezuela           |                      |              | 1,165 |       |  |   | (2,443 | )     
|All other countries |                      |              | 511   |       |  |   | (820   | )     
|                    |                      |              |       |       |  |   |        |       
|                    | Exchange gain (loss) |              | $     | 5,222 |  |   | $      | (2,548 | )
|                    |                      |              |       |       |  |   |        |       











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Derivative Financial Instruments.






|                         |  |               |                   |                  |  |                 |       |                   |  |   |         |  |  |   |        |  
|------------------------ |  | ------------- | ----------------- | ---------------- |  | --------------- | ----- | ----------------- |  | - | ------- |  |  | - | ------ | -
|                         |  |               |                   |                  |  |                 |       | Fair Value of    
|                         |  |               |                   | Fixed Rate to be |  |                 |       | Swap at          
|Floating Rate to be Paid |  | Maturity Date |                   | Received         |  | Notional Amount |       | December 31, 2004
|                         |  |               |                   |                  |  |                 |       |                  
|Six Month LIBOR +4.72%   |  |               | December 15, 2010 |                  |  |                 | 8.625 | %                 |  | $ | 100,000 |  |  | $ | (3,254 | )
|Six Month LIBOR +4.64%   |  |               | December 15, 2010 |                  |  |                 | 8.625 | %                 |  | $ | 100,000 |  |  | $ | (2,742 | )



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|             |  |               |                  |                       |  |                 |        |                   |  |   |         |  |  |   |      |  
|------------ |  | ------------- | ---------------- | --------------------- |  | --------------- | ------ | ----------------- |  | - | ------- |  |  | - | ---- | -
|             |  |               |                  |                       |  |                 |        | Fair Value of    
|             |  |               |                  |                       |  |                 |        | Swap at          
|Lease        |  | Maturity Date |                  | Fixed Rate to be Paid |  | Notional Amount |        | December 31, 2004
|             |  |               |                  |                       |  |                 |        |                  
|March 2000   |  |               | March 11, 2005   |                       |  |                 | 5.2550 | %                 |  | $ | 100,000 |  |  | $ | (527 | )
|August 2000  |  |               | March 11, 2005   |                       |  |                 | 5.2725 | %                 |  | $ | 100,000 |  |  | $ | (534 | )
|October 2000 |  |               | October 26, 2005 |                       |  |                 | 5.3975 | %                 |  | $ | 100,000 |  |  | $ |     |  











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|                        |  |      |      |                   |  |   |        | 
|----------------------- |  | ---- | ---- | ----------------- |  | - | ------ | 
|                        |  |      |      | Maximum Potential
|                        |  |      |      | Undiscounted     
|                        |  |      |      | Payments as of   
|                        |  | Term |      | December 31, 2004
|                        |  |      |      |                  
|Simco/Harwat Consortium |  |      | 2005 |                   |  | $ | 12,257 | 
|El Furrial              |  |      | 2013 |                   |  | $ | 36,018 | 



Factors That May Affect Our Financial Condition and Future
Results




| |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
| | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | We have a substantial amount of debt, including our
    compression equipment lease obligations, that could limit our
    ability to fund future growth and operations and increase our
    exposure during adverse economic conditions.







| |   |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
| | - | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| |  | make it more difficult for us to satisfy our contractual
    obligations;                                                                                                                                                             
|
| |  | increase our vulnerability to general adverse economic and
    industry conditions;                                                                                                                                                   
|
| |  | limit our ability to fund future working capital, capital
    expenditures, acquisitions or other general corporate
    requirements;                                                                                                 
|
| |  | increase our vulnerability to interest rate fluctuations because
    the interest payments on a portion of our debt are at, and a
    portion of our compression equipment leasing expense is based
    upon, variable interest rates;
|
| |  | limit our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes
    in our business and our industry;                                                                                                                                  
|
| |  | place us at a disadvantage compared to our competitors that have
    less debt or fewer operating lease commitments; and                                                                                                              
|
| |  | limit our ability to borrow additional funds.                                                                                                                                                                                         



| |                                                                                                                                                  
| | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | We will need to generate a significant amount of cash to
    service our debt, to fund working capital and to pay our debts
    as they come due.







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| |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
| | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | The documents governing our outstanding debt, including
    our compression equipment lease obligations, contain financial
    and other restrictive covenants. Failing to comply with those
    covenants could result in an event of default which, if not
    cured or waived, could have a material adverse effect on
    us.





| |   |                                                                               
| | - | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| |  | incur additional debt or issue guarantees;                                    
|
| |  | create liens on our assets;                                                   
|
| |  | engage in mergers, consolidations and dispositions of assets;                 
|
| |  | enter into additional operating leases;                                       
|
| |  | pay dividends on or redeem capital stock;                                     
|
| |  | enter into derivative transactions;                                           
|
| |  | make certain investments or restricted payments;                              
|
| |  | make distributions to Hanover by HCLP other than under certain
    conditions;
|
| |  | make investments, loans or advancements to certain of our
    subsidiaries;   
|
| |  | prepay or modify our debt facilities;                                         
|
| |  | enter into transactions with affiliates; or                                   
|
| |  | enter into sale leaseback transactions.                                       







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| |                                                                                                                                                                                                              
| | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | We have significant leverage relative to our total
    capitalization, which could result in a further downgrade in our
    credit rating or other adverse consequences if we do not reduce
    our leverage.



|                                                                        |  |         |        |            |  |  |        | 
|----------------------------------------------------------------------- |  | ------- | ------ | ---------- |  |  | ------ | 
|                                                                        |  |         |        | Standard &
|                                                                        |  | Moodys |        | Poors    
|                                                                        |  |         |        |           
|Outlook                                                                 |  |         | Stable |            |  |  | Stable | 
|Senior implied rating                                                   |  |         | B1     |            |  |  | BB-    | 
|Liquidity rating                                                        |  |         | SGL-3  |            |  |  |       | 
|Bank credit facility due December 2006                                  |  |         | Ba3    |            |  |  |       | 
|2001A equipment lease notes, interest at 8.5%, due September 2008       |  |         | B2     |            |  |  | B+     | 
|2001B equipment lease notes, interest at 8.8%, due September 2011       |  |         | B2     |            |  |  | B+     | 
|4.75% convertible senior notes due 2008                                 |  |         | B3     |            |  |  | B      | 
|4.75% convertible senior notes due 2014                                 |  |         | B3     |            |  |  | B      | 
|8.625% senior notes due 2010                                            |  |         | B3     |            |  |  | B      | 
|9.0% senior notes due 2014                                              |  |         | B3     |            |  |  | B      | 
|Zero coupon subordinated notes, interest at 11%, due
    March 31, 2007 |  |         | Caa1   |            |  |  | B-     | 
|7.25% convertible subordinated notes due 2029*                          |  |         | Caa1   |            |  |  | B-     | 






|  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
|- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|* | Rating is on the Mandatorily Redeemable Convertible Preferred
    Securities issued by Hanover Compressor Capital Trust, a trust
    that we sponsored. Prior to adoption of FIN 46 in 2003,
    these securities were reported on our balance sheet as
    mandatorily redeemable convertible preferred securities. Because
    we only have a limited ability to make decisions about its
    activities and we are not the primary beneficiary of the trust,
    the trust is a VIE under FIN 46. As such, the Mandatorily
    Redeemable Convertible Preferred Securities issued by the trust
    are no longer reported on our balance sheet. Instead, we now
    report our subordinated notes payable to the trust as a debt.
    These notes have previously been eliminated in our consolidated
    financial statements. The changes related to our Mandatorily
    Redeemable Convertible Preferred Securities for our balance
    sheet are reclassifications and had no impact on our
    consolidated results of operations or cash flow.





| |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
| | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | We are still in the process of improving our
    infrastructure capabilities, including our internal controls and
    procedures, which were strained by our rapid growth, to reduce
    the risk of future accounting and financial reporting
    problems.



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| |                                                                                                                                                                               
| | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | Unforeseen difficulties with the implementation or
    operation of our enterprise resource planning system could
    adversely affect our internal controls and our business.



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| |                                                                                                                       
| | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | We require a substantial amount of capital to expand our
    compressor rental fleet and our complementary businesses.







| |                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
| | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | Our ability to substitute compression equipment under our
    compression equipment leases is limited and there are risks
    associated with reaching that limit prior to the expiration of
    the lease term.



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|                |       |                       |      |               |  |             |       |               |  |                   |       |       |  |  |     |  |  |  |                |  | 
|--------------- | ----- | --------------------- | ---- | ------------- |  | ----------- | ----- | ------------- |  | ----------------- | ----- | ----- |  |  | --- |  |  |  | -------------- |  | 
|                |       |                       |      |               |  |             |       | Substitution  |  |                  
|                |       |                       |      |               |  |             |       | Limitation as |  |                  
|                |       | Value of              |      | Percentage of |  | Original    |       | Percentage of |  |                  
|                |       | Substituted           |      | Termination   |  | Termination |       | Termination   |  | Lease Termination
|Lease           |       | Equipment             |      | Value(1)      |  | Value(1)    |       | Value         |  | Date             
|                |       |                       |      |               |  |             |       |               |  |                  
|                |       | (dollars in millions)
|October 2000(2) |       | $                     | 24.6 |               |  |             | 14.3% |               |  | $                 | 172.6 |       |  |  | 25% |  |  |  | October 2005   | 
|August 2001     |       |                       | 33.8 |               |  |             | 10.9% |               |  |                   | 309.3 |       |  |  | 25% |  |  |  | September 2008 | 
|August 2001     |       |                       | 32.7 |               |  |             | 12.7% |               |  |                   | 257.7 |       |  |  | 25% |  |  |  | September 2011 | 
|                |       |                       |      |               |  |             |       |               |  |                   |       |       |  |  |     |  |  |  |                | 
|                | Total |                       | $    | 91.1          |  |             |       |               |  |                   | $     | 739.6 |  |  |     |  |  |  |                |  | 
|                |       |                       |      |               |  |             |       |               |  |                   |       |       |  |  |     |  |  |  |                | 






|    |                                                                                                                                
|--- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|(1) | Termination value assumes all accrued rents paid before
    termination.                                                       
|   
|(2) | During February 2005, we repaid the October 2000 compressor
    equipment lease using borrowings from our bank credit facility.





| |                                                                                                                                                                 
| | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | A prolonged, substantial reduction in oil or gas prices,
    or prolonged instability in U.S. or global energy markets,
    could adversely affect our business.







| |                                                                                         
| | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | There are many risks associated with conducting operations
    in international markets.





| |   |                                                                                              
| | - | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| |  | difficulties in managing international operations;                                           
|
| |  | unexpected changes in regulatory requirements;                                               
|
| |  | tariffs and other trade barriers that may restrict our ability
    to enter into new markets;
|
| |  | governmental actions that result in the deprivation of contract
    rights;                  

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| |   |                                                                                                                                                                                                        
| | - | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| |  | changes in political and economic conditions in the countries in
    which we operate, including civil uprisings, riots and terrorist
    acts, particularly with respect to our operations in Nigeria;
|
| |  | potentially adverse tax consequences;                                                                                                                                                                  
|
| |  | restrictions on repatriation of earnings or expropriation of
    property without fair compensation;                                                                                                   
|
| |  | difficulties in establishing new international offices and risks
    inherent in establishing new relationships in foreign countries;                                                                  
|
| |  | the burden of complying with the various laws and regulations in
    the countries in which we operate; and                                                                                            
|
| |  | fluctuations in currency exchange rates and the value of the
    U.S. dollar, particularly with respect to our operations in
    Argentina, Venezuela and Europe.                                      







| |                                                                                                                                                
| | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | Political conditions and fluctuations in currency exchange
    rates in Italy, Argentina and Venezuela could adversely affect
    our business.







|                    |                      |              |       |       |  |   |        |        |  
|------------------- | -------------------- | ------------ | ----- | ----- |  | - | ------ | ------ | -
|                    |                      | Year Ended  
|                    |                      | December 31,
|                    |                      |             
|                    |                      | 2004         |       | 2003 
|                    |                      |              |       |      
|Italy               |                      | $            | 4,170 |       |  | $ | 221    |       
|Argentina           |                      |              | (624  | )     |  |   | 494    |       
|Venezuela           |                      |              | 1,165 |       |  |   | (2,443 | )     
|All other countries |                      |              | 511   |       |  |   | (820   | )     
|                    |                      |              |       |       |  |   |        |       
|                    | Exchange gain (loss) |              | $     | 5,222 |  |   | $      | (2,548 | )
|                    |                      |              |       |       |  |   |        |       

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| |                                                                                                                                                                                                               
| | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | Many of our compressor leases with customers have short
    initial terms, and we cannot be sure that the leases for these
    rental compressors will be renewed after the end of the initial
    lease term.





| |                                             
| | --------------------------------------------
| | We operate in a highly competitive industry.





| |                                                                                                 
| | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | Natural gas operations entail inherent risks that may
    result in substantial liability to us.



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| |                                                                                              
| | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | Our ability to manage our business effectively will be
    weakened if we lose key personnel.





| |                                                                      
| | ---------------------------------------------------------------------
| | Our business is subject to a variety of governmental
    regulations.









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| |                                                                                                                 
| | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | Our business has acquired facilities in the past which
    could subject us to future environmental liabilities.





| |                                           
| | ------------------------------------------
| | Our stock price may experience volatility.



New Accounting Pronouncements




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|         |                                                               
|-------- | --------------------------------------------------------------
|Item 7A. | Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market
    Risk





|               |  |              |        |          |  |               |         |  |  |   |      |  
|-------------- |  | ------------ | ------ | -------- |  | ------------- | ------- |  |  | - | ---- | -
|               |  |              |        |          |  | Fair Value of
|               |  |              |        |          |  | the Swap at  
|               |  | Company Pays |        | Notional |  | December 31, 
|Maturity Date  |  | Fixed Rate   |        | Amount   |  | 2004         
|               |  |              |        |          |  |              
|March 11, 2005 |  |              | 5.2550 | %        |  | $             | 100,000 |  |  | $ | (527 | )
|March 11, 2005 |  |              | 5.2725 | %        |  | $             | 100,000 |  |  | $ | (534 | )



|                         |  |               |                   |            |  |          |       |               |  |   |         |  |  |   |        |  
|------------------------ |  | ------------- | ----------------- | ---------- |  | -------- | ----- | ------------- |  | - | ------- |  |  | - | ------ | -
|                         |  |               |                   |            |  |          |       | Fair Value of
|                         |  |               |                   | Fixed Rate |  |          |       | Swap at      
|                         |  |               |                   | to be      |  | Notional |       | December 31, 
|Floating Rate to be Paid |  | Maturity Date |                   | Received   |  | Amount   |       | 2004         
|                         |  |               |                   |            |  |          |       |              
|Six Month LIBOR +4.72%   |  |               | December 15, 2010 |            |  |          | 8.625 | %             |  | $ | 100,000 |  |  | $ | (3,254 | )
|Six Month LIBOR +4.64%   |  |               | December 15, 2010 |            |  |          | 8.625 | %             |  | $ | 100,000 |  |  | $ | (2,742 | )





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|                    |                      |              |       |       |  |   |        |        |  
|------------------- | -------------------- | ------------ | ----- | ----- |  | - | ------ | ------ | -
|                    |                      | Year Ended  
|                    |                      | December 31,
|                    |                      |             
|                    |                      | 2004         |       | 2003 
|                    |                      |              |       |      
|Italy               |                      | $            | 4,170 |       |  | $ | 221    |       
|Argentina           |                      |              | (624  | )     |  |   | 494    |       
|Venezuela           |                      |              | 1,165 |       |  |   | (2,443 | )     
|All other countries |                      |              | 511   |       |  |   | (820   | )     
|                    |                      |              |       |       |  |   |        |       
|                    | Exchange gain (loss) |              | $     | 5,222 |  |   | $      | (2,548 | )
|                    |                      |              |       |       |  |   |        |       








|        |                                            
|------- | -------------------------------------------
|Item 8. | Financial Statements and Supplementary Data








|        |                                                                                         
|------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|Item 9. | Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on
    Accounting and Financial Disclosure








|         |                        
|-------- | -----------------------
|Item 9A. | Controls and Procedures



| |                                                                                 
| | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | Conclusion Regarding the Effectiveness of Disclosure
    Controls and Procedures







| |                                                                     
| | --------------------------------------------------------------------
| | Managements Report on Internal Control Over
    Financial Reporting

Internal Control 
Integrated Framework


Internal Control  Integrated Framework


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| |                                                         
| | --------------------------------------------------------
| | Changes in Internal Control over Financial
    Reporting








|         |                  
|-------- | -----------------
|Item 9B. | Other Information







|                    |  |                                                      |  |             |         |              |  |   |         | 
|------------------- |  | ---------------------------------------------------- |  | ----------- | ------- | ------------ |  | - | ------- | 
|                    |  |                                                      |  | Current     |         | 2004 Bonus  
|Name                |  | Position                                             |  | Base Salary |         | Paid in 2005
|                    |  |                                                      |  |             |         |             
|John E. Jackson     |  | President and Chief Executive Officer; Director      |  | $           | 540,000 |              |  | $ | 303,400 | 
|Gary M. Wilson      |  | Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary |  | $           | 275,000 |              |  | $ | 108,000 | 
|Lee E. Beckelman    |  | Vice President and Chief Financial Officer           |  | $           | 250,000 |              |  | $ | 50,000  | 
|Anita H. Colglazier |  | Vice President  Controller                          |  | $           | 175,000 |              |  | $ | 43,000  | 
|Peter G. Schreck    |  | Vice President  Treasury and Planning               |  | $           | 185,000 |              |  | $ | 55,200  | 
|Stephen P. York     |  | Vice President  Investor Relations and Technology   |  | $           | 180,000 |              |  | $ | 54,800  | 
|Maxwell C. McDonald |  | Vice President  U.S. Operations                     |  | $           | 200,000 |              |  | $ | 56,500  | 
|Steve W. Muck       |  | Vice President  International Operations            |  | $           | 190,000 |              |  | $ | 58,000  | 
|Hilary S. Ware      |  | Vice President  Human Resources                     |  | $           | 210,000 |              |  | $ | 64,500  | 

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PART III







|         |                                                   
|-------- | --------------------------------------------------
|Item 10. | Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant



http://www.hanover-co.com.







|         |                       
|-------- | ----------------------
|Item 11. | Executive Compensation








|         |                                                                   
|-------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------
|Item 12. | Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and
    Management



EQUITY COMPENSATION PLAN INFORMATION






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|                                                                 |  |                            |           |                   |  |                           |       |  |  |  |           |    
|---------------------------------------------------------------- |  | -------------------------- | --------- | ----------------- |  | ------------------------- | ----- |  |  |  | --------- | ---
|                                                                 |  |                            |           | Weighted-         |  | Number of securities     
|                                                                 |  |                            |           | average exercise  |  | remaining available for  
|                                                                 |  | Number of securities to be |           | price of          |  | future issuance under    
|                                                                 |  | issued upon exercise of    |           | outstanding       |  | equity compensation plans
|                                                                 |  | outstanding options,       |           | options, warrants |  | (excluding securities    
|                                                                 |  | warrants and rights        |           | and rights        |  | reflected in column (a)) 
|Plan category                                                    |  | (a)                        |           | (b)               |  | (c)                      
|                                                                 |  |                            |           |                   |  |                          
|Equity compensation plans approved by security holders(1)        |  |                            | 2,190,460 | (4)               |  | $                         | 11.63 |  |  |  | 1,495,511 | (5)
|Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders(2)(3) |  |                            | 2,030,827 |                   |  | $                         | 5.36  |  |  |  |          | (6)
|                                                                 |  |                            |           |                   |  |                           |       |  |  |  |           |    
|Total                                                            |  |                            | 4,221,287 |                   |  | $                         | 8.61  |  |  |  | 1,495,511 |    
|                                                                 |  |                            |           |                   |  |                           |       |  |  |  |           |    






|    |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
|--- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|(1) | Composed of the 2003 Stock Incentive Plan, the 2001 Equity
    Incentive Plan and the 1997 Stock Option Plan.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
|   
|(2) | Composed of all of the Equity Compensation Plans except the 2003
    Stock Incentive Plan, the 2001 Equity Incentive Plan and the
    1997 Stock Option Plan.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
|   
|(3) | The table does not include information for the Applied Process
    Solutions Incorporated (APSI) 1998 Stock Option Plan
    assumed by Hanover in connection with its acquisition of APSI in
    May 2000. As of December 31, 2004, a total of
    23,152 shares of the Common Stock were issuable upon
    exercise of outstanding options under the assumed plan. The
    weighted average exercise price of those outstanding options is
    $20.09 per share. No additional awards may be granted under
    such plan.                                      
|   
|(4) | In addition, as of December 31, 2004, there are
    1,344,370 shares of restricted stock outstanding granted
    under the 2003 Stock Incentive Plan and the 2001 Equity
    Incentive Plan.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
|   
|(5) | Under terms of the 1997 Stock Option Plan, Hanover may grant
    awards of restricted stock in addition to options. Under the
    terms of the 2001 Equity Incentive Plan, Hanover may grant
    awards of restricted stock in addition to options, although no
    more than 1.0 million of the 1.5 million shares
    authorized under such plan may be issued pursuant to awards of
    restricted stock. Under the terms of the 2003 Stock Incentive
    Plan, Hanover may grant awards of restricted stock and
    performance awards in addition to options.
|   
|(6) | The Board of Directors terminated any existing authority to make
    future grants under these plans on May 15, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             



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|                                   |  |             |           |                    |  |                       |           |           |  |            |           |  |  |   |       |  |  |  |    | 
|---------------------------------- |  | ----------- | --------- | ------------------ |  | --------------------- | --------- | --------- |  | ---------- | --------- |  |  | - | ----- |  |  |  | -- | 
|                                   |  |             |           |                    |  | Number of Shares      |           |           |  |           
|                                   |  |             |           | Shares Previously  |  | Reserved for Issuance |           | Weighted- |  | Shares    
|                                   |  | Number of   |           | Issued Pursuant to |  | Upon the Exercise of  |           | Average   |  | Available 
|                                   |  | Shares      |           | Stock Option       |  | Outstanding Stock     |           | Exercise  |  | for Future
|Plan or Agreement Name             |  | Issuable(#) |           | Exercises(#)       |  | Options(#)            |           | Price($)  |  | Grants(#) 
|                                   |  |             |           |                    |  |                       |           |           |  |           
|Incentive Option Plan              |  |             | 2,703,063 |                    |  |                       | 1,341,561 |           |  |            | 1,361,502 |  |  | $ | 2.29  |  |  |  | *  | 
|1995 Employee Stock Option Plan    |  |             | 199,694   |                    |  |                       | 182,719   |           |  |            | 16,659    |  |  | $ | 4.75  |  |  |  | *  | 
|1996 Employee Stock Option Plan    |  |             | 116,920   |                    |  |                       | 66,148    |           |  |            | 47,084    |  |  | $ | 5.70  |  |  |  | *  | 
|Glenn Wind Stock Option Agreement  |  |             | 47,400    |                    |  |                       | 31,022    |           |  |            | 16,378    |  |  | $ | 0.003 |  |  |  | *  | 
|1998 Stock Option Plan             |  |             | 520,000   |                    |  |                       | 31,359    |           |  |            | 279,406   |  |  | $ | 13.37 |  |  |  | ** | 
|December 9, 1998 Stock Option Plan |  |             | 700,000   |                    |  |                       | 436,060   |           |  |            | 172,138   |  |  | $ | 9.75  |  |  |  | ** | 
|1999 Stock Option Plan             |  |             | 600,000   |                    |  |                       | 23,866    |           |  |            | 137,660   |  |  | $ | 14.50 |  |  |  | ** | 






| |   |                                                                                                                   
| | - | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | * | The authority to make future grants under these plans was
    terminated upon our initial public offering in 1997.



|   |                                                                                                         
|-- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|** | The Board of Directors terminated authority to make future
    grants under these plans on May 15, 2003.






|         |                                               
|-------- | ----------------------------------------------
|Item 13. | Certain Relationships and Related Transactions








|         |                                       
|-------- | --------------------------------------
|Item 14. | Principal Accounting Fees and Services






PART IV







|         |                                        
|-------- | ---------------------------------------
|Item 15. | Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules

Documents filed as a part of this report.




| |                                                                                                   
| | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | 1. Financial Statements.The following financial
    statements are filed as a part of this report.

|                                                        |  |  |      | 
|------------------------------------------------------- |  |  | ---- | 
|Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |  |  | F-1  | 
|Consolidated Balance Sheet                              |  |  | F-3  | 
|Consolidated Statement of Operations                    |  |  | F-4  | 
|Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income (Loss)   |  |  | F-5  | 
|Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows                    |  |  | F-6  | 
|Consolidated Statement of Common Stockholders Equity   |  |  | F-8  | 
|Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements              |  |  | F-9  | 
|Selected Quarterly Financial Data (unaudited)           |  |  | F-52 | 



| |                                 
| | --------------------------------
| | 2. Financial Statement Schedules

|                                                                                                         |  |  |     | 
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |  |  | --- | 
|Schedule I  Hanover Compressor Company (Parent
    Company Only) Condensed Financial Statements         |  |  | S-1 | 
|Schedule II  Valuation and Qualifying Accounts                                                          |  |  | S-6 | 
|All other schedules have been omitted because they are not
    required under the relevant instructions.

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| | 3. Exhibits

|        |   |             |  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
|------- | - | ----------- |  | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|Exhibit |   |            
|Number  |   | Description
|        |   |            
|        | 3 | .1          |  | Certificate of Incorporation of the Hanover Compressor Holding
    Co., as amended, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1
    to Hanover Compressor Companys (the Company)
    Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on
    February 5, 2001.                                                                                                                                             
|        | 3 | .2          |  | Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation of
    Hanover Compressor Holding Co., dated December 8, 1999,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the
    Companys Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the
    SEC on February 5, 2001.                                                                                                                                        
|        | 3 | .3          |  | Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation of
    Hanover Compressor Holding Co., dated July 11, 2000,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 to the
    Companys Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the
    SEC on February 5, 2001.                                                                                                                                           
|        | 3 | .4          |  | Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, dated March 10,
    2004, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.4 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
    ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                
|        | 4 | .1          |  | Third Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated
    as of December 5, 1995, by and between the Company, GKH
    Partners, L.P., GKH Investments, L.P., Astra Resources, Inc. and
    other stockholders of the Company party thereto, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Companys Registration
    Statement (File No. 333-24953) on Form S-1, as amended.            
|        | 4 | .2          |  | Form of Warrant Agreement, dated as of August 7, 1995,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.10 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-24953)
    on Form S-1, as amended.                                                                                                                                                                                                      
|        | 4 | .3          |  | Specimen Stock Certificate, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 4.11 to the Companys Registration Statement
    (File No. 333-24953) on Form S-1, as amended.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
|        | 4 | .4          |  | Form of Hanover Compressor Capital
    Trust 71/4%
    Convertible Preferred Securities, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 4.8 to the Companys Registration Statement
    (File No. 333-30344) on Form S-3 as filed with the SEC
    on February 14, 2000.                                                                                                                                      
|        | 4 | .5          |  | Indenture for the Convertible Junior Subordinated Debentures due
    2029, dated as of December 15, 1999, among the Company, as
    issuer, and Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.6 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-30344)
    on Form S-3 filed with the SEC on February 14, 2000.                                            
|        | 4 | .6          |  | Form of Hanover Compressor Company Convertible Subordinated
    Junior Debentures due 2029, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 4.9 to the Companys Registration Statement
    (File No. 333-30344) on Form S-3 as filed with the SEC
    on February 14, 2000.                                                                                                                                   
|        | 4 | .7          |  | Indenture for the 4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2008, dated
    as of March 15, 2001, between the Company and Wilmington
    Trust Company, as trustee, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 4.7 to the Companys Annual Report on
    Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                         
|        | 4 | .8          |  | Form of 4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2008, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 4.8 to the Companys Annual
    Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
    2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
|        | 4 | .9          |  | Indenture for the 8.50% Senior Secured Notes due 2008, dated as
    of August 30, 2001, among the 2001A Trust, as issuer,
    Hanover Compression Limited Partnership and certain
    subsidiaries, as guarantors, and Wilmington Trust FSB, as
    Trustee, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.69 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended September 30, 2001.
|        | 4 | .10         |  | Form of 8.50% Senior Secured Notes due 2008, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 4.10 to the Companys Annual
    Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
    2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
|        | 4 | .11         |  | Indenture for the 8.75% Senior Secured Notes due 2011, dated as
    of August 30, 2001, among the 2001B Trust, as issuer,
    Hanover Compression Limited Partnership and certain
    subsidiaries, as guarantors, and Wilmington Trust FSB, as
    Trustee, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.75 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended September 30, 2001.
|        | 4 | .12         |  | Form of 8.75% Senior Secured Notes due 2011, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 4.12 to the Companys Annual
    Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
    2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
|        | 4 | .13         |  | Indenture for the Zero Coupon Subordinated Notes due
    March 31, 2007, dated as of May 14, 2003, between the
    Company and Wachovia Bank, National Association, as trustee,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-106384)
    on Form S-3, as filed with the SEC on June 23, 2003.                                                 

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|        |    |             |  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
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|Exhibit |    |            
|Number  |    | Description
|        |    |            
|        | 4  | .14         |  | Form of Zero Coupon Subordinated Notes due March 31, 2007,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.14 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
    ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
|        | 4  | .15         |  | Senior Indenture, dated as of December 15, 2003, among the
    Company, Subsidiary Guarantors named therein and Wachovia Bank,
    National Association, as trustee, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 4.1 to the Companys Registration Statement on
    Form 8-A, as filed with the SEC on December 15, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
|        | 4  | .16         |  | First Supplemental Indenture to the Senior Indenture dated as of
    December 15, 2003, relating to the 8.625% Senior Notes due
    2010, dated as of December 15, 2003, among Hanover
    Compressor Company, Hanover Compression Limited Partnership and
    Wachovia Bank, National Association, as trustee, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Companys Registration
    Statement on Form 8-A, as filed with the SEC on
    December 15, 2003.                                                                            
|        | 4  | .17         |  | Form of 8.625% Senior Notes due 2010, incorporated by reference
    to Exhibit 4.17 to the Companys Annual Report on
    Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
|        | 4  | .18         |  | Second Supplemental Indenture to the Senior Indenture dated as
    of December 15, 2003, relating to the 4.75% Convertible
    Senior Notes due 2014, dated as of December 15, 2003,
    between the Company and Wachovia Bank, National Association, as
    trustee, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.4 to the
    Companys Current Report on Form 8-K, as filed with
    the SEC on December 16, 2003.                                                                                                                                  
|        | 4  | .19         |  | Form of 4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2014, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 4.19 to the Companys Annual
    Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
    2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
|        | 4  | .20         |  | Lock-Up, Standstill and Registration Rights Agreement, dated as
    of August 31, 2001, by and among Schlumberger Technology
    Corporation, Camco International, Inc., Schlumberger Oilfield
    Holdings Ltd., Schlumberger Surenco S.A., Operational Services,
    Inc. and the Company, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 99.5 to the Companys Current Report on
    Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September 14, 2001.                                                                                                             
|        | 4  | .21         |  | Third Supplemental Indenture to the Senior Indenture dated as of
    December 15, 2003, relating to the 9.0% Senior Notes due
    2014, dated as of June 1, 2004, among Hanover Compressor
    Company, Hanover Compression Limited Partnership and Wachovia
    Bank, National Association, as trustee, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Registration Statement of
    Hanover Compressor Company and Hanover Compression Limited
    Partnership on Form 8-A under the Securities Act of 1934,
    as filed on June 2, 2004.
|        | 4  | .22         |  | Form of 9% Senior Notes due 2014, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 4.3 to the Registration Statement of Hanover
    Compressor Company and Hanover Compression Limited Partnership
    on Form 8-A under the Securities Act of 1934, as filed on
    June 2, 2004.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
|        | 10 | .1          |  | Stipulation and Agreement of Settlement, dated as of
    October 23, 2003, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 10.1 to the Companys Quarterly Report on
    Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
|        | 10 | .2          |  | PIGAP Settlement Agreement, dated as of May 14, 2003, by
    and among Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Schlumberger
    Oilfield Limited, Schlumberger Surenco S.A., the Company and
    Hanover Compression Limited Partnership, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Companys Annual
    Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
    2003.                                                                                                                                                                   
|        | 10 | .3          |  | Credit Agreement, dated as of December 15, 2003, among the
    Company, Hanover Compression Limited Partnership, Bank One, NA
    as Syndication Agent, JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Administrative
    Agent, and the several lenders parties thereto, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Companys Current
    Report on Form 8-K, as filed with the SEC on
    December 16, 2003.                                                                                                                                                
|        | 10 | .4          |  | Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, dated as of
    December 15, 2003, among the Company, Hanover Compression
    Limited Partnership and certain of their subsidiaries in favor
    of JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Collateral Agent, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Companys Current
    Report on Form 8-K, as filed with the SEC on
    December 16, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                 
|        | 10 | .5          |  | Hanover Guarantee, dated as of December 15, 2003, made by
    the Company in favor of JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Administrative
    Agent for the lenders parties to the Credit Agreement dated as
    of December 15, 2003, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 10.6 to the Companys Annual Report on
    Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                    

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|Exhibit |    |            
|Number  |    | Description
|        |    |            
|        | 10 | .6          |  | Subsidiaries Guarantee, dated as of December 15,
    2003, in favor of JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Administrative Agent
    for the lenders parties to the Credit Agreement dated as of
    December 15, 2003, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 10.7 to the Companys Annual Report on
    Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
|        | 10 | .7          |  | Lease, dated as of October 27, 2000, between Hanover
    Equipment Trust 2000B (the 2000B Trust) and
    Hanover Compression Inc., incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 10.54 to the Companys Registration Statement
    (File No. 333-50836) on Form S-4, as filed with the
    SEC on December 22, 2000.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
|        | 10 | .8          |  | Guarantee, dated as of October 27, 2000 made by the
    Company, Hanover Compression Inc. and certain subsidiaries,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.55 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-50836)
    on Form S-4, as filed with the SEC on December 22,
    2000.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
|        | 10 | .9          |  | Participation Agreement, dated as of October 27, 2000,
    among Hanover Compression Inc., the 2000B Trust, The Chase
    Manhattan Bank, National Westminster Bank PLC, Citibank N.A.,
    Credit Suisse First Boston and the Industrial Bank of Japan as
    co-agents; Bank Hapoalim B.M. and FBTC Leasing Corp., as
    investors, Wilmington Trust Company and various lenders,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.56 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-50836)
    on Form S-4, as filed with the SEC on December 22,
    2000.
|        | 10 | .10         |  | Security Agreement, dated as of October 27, 2000, made by
    the 2000B Trust in favor of The Chase Manhattan Bank as agent
    for the lenders, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.57
    to the Companys Registration Statement (File
    No. 333-50836) on Form S-4, as filed with the SEC on
    December 22, 2000.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
|        | 10 | .11         |  | Assignment of Leases, Rents and Guarantee, dated as of
    October 27, 2000, made by the 2000B Trust to The Chase
    Manhattan Bank as agent for the lenders, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 10.58 to the Companys
    Registration Statement (File No. 333-50836) on
    Form S-4, as filed with the SEC on December 22, 2000.                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
|        | 10 | .12         |  | Lease, dated as of August 31, 2001, between Hanover
    Equipment Trust 2001A (the 2001A Trust) and
    Hanover Compression Limited Partnership, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 10.64 to the Companys Quarterly
    Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
    September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
|        | 10 | .13         |  | Guarantee, dated as of August 31, 2001, made by the
    Company, Hanover Compression Limited Partnership, and certain
    subsidiaries, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.65 to
    the Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
|        | 10 | .14         |  | Participation Agreement, dated as of August 31, 2001, among
    Hanover Compression Limited Partnership, the 2001A Trust, and
    General Electric Capital Corporation, incorporated by reference
    to Exhibit 10.66 to the Companys Quarterly Report on
    Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
|        | 10 | .15         |  | Security Agreement, dated as of August 31, 2001, made by
    the 2001A Trust in favor Wilmington Trust FSB as agent,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.67 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
|        | 10 | .16         |  | Assignment of Leases, Rents and Guarantee from the 2001A Trust
    to Wilmington Trust FSB, dated as of August 31, 2001,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.68 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
|        | 10 | .17         |  | Lease, dated as of August 31, 2001, between Hanover
    Equipment Trust 2001B (the 2001B Trust) and
    Hanover Compression Limited Partnership, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 10.70 to the Companys Quarterly
    Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
    September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
|        | 10 | .18         |  | Guarantee, dated as of August 31, 2001, made by the
    Company, Hanover Compression Limited Partnership, and certain
    subsidiaries, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.71 to
    the Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
|        | 10 | .19         |  | Participation Agreement, dated as of August 31, 2001, among
    Hanover Compression Limited Partnership, the 2001B Trust, and
    General Electric Capital Corporation, incorporated by reference
    to Exhibit 10.72 to the Companys Quarterly Report on
    Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

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|Exhibit |    |            
|Number  |    | Description
|        |    |            
|        | 10 | .20         |  | Security Agreement, dated as of August 31, 2001, made by
    the 2001B Trust in favor of Wilmington Trust FSB as agent,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.73 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                         
|        | 10 | .21         |  | Assignment of Leases, Rents and Guarantee from the 2001B Trust
    to Wilmington Trust FSB, dated as of August 31, 2001,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.74 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                        
|        | 10 | .22         |  | Amendment, dated as of December 15, 2003, to the 2000A and
    2000B Synthetic Guarantees, Credit Agreements and Participation
    Agreements, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.36 to
    the Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
    ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                             
|        | 10 | .23         |  | Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of Hanover Compressor
    Capital Trust, dated as of December 15, 1999, among the
    Company, as sponsor, Wilmington Trust Company, as property
    trustee, and Richard S. Meller, William S. Goldberg
    and Curtis A. Bedrich, as administrative trustees,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.5 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-30344)
    on Form S-3 filed with the SEC on February 14, 2000.
|        | 10 | .24         |  | Preferred Securities Guarantee Agreement, dated as of
    December 15, 1999, between the Company, as guarantor, and
    Wilmington Trust Company, as guarantee trustee,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.10 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-30344)
    on Form S-3 as filed with the SEC on February 14, 2000.                                                                                                                              
|        | 10 | .25         |  | Common Securities Guarantee Agreement, dated as of
    December 15, 1999, by the Company, as guarantor, for the
    benefit of the holders of common securities of Hanover
    Compressor Capital Trust, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 4.11 to the Companys Registration Statement
    (File No. 333-30344) on Form S-3 as filed with the SEC
    on February 14, 2000.                                                                                             
|        | 10 | .26         |  | Amended and Restated Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, dated
    January 31, 2003, made by the Company, certain of the
    Companys subsidiaries, JPMorgan Chase Bank, as
    administrative agent, and the lenders parties thereto,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
    year ended December 31, 2002.                                                                                          
|        | 10 | .27         |  | Purchase Agreement, dated as of July 11, 2000, among the
    Company, Hanover Compression Inc., Dresser-Rand Company and
    Ingersoll-Rand Company, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 99.2 to the Companys Current Report on
    Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September 14, 2000.                                                                                                                                                                                    
|        | 10 | .28         |  | Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 13, 2000,
    among the Company, Caddo Acquisition Corporation, and OEC
    Compression Corporation, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 10.51 to the Companys Quarterly Report on
    Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2000.                                                                                                                                                                                 
|        | 10 | .29         |  | Amendment No. 1 to Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as
    of November 14, 2000, by and among the Company, Caddo
    Acquisition Corporation and OEC Compression Corporation,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.43 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
    ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                       
|        | 10 | .30         |  | Amendment No. 2 to Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as
    of February 2, 2001, by and among the Company, Caddo
    Acquisition Corporation and OEC Compression Corporation,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.44 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
    ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                        
|        | 10 | .31         |  | Purchase Agreement, dated June 28, 2001, among Schlumberger
    Technology Corporation, Schlumberger Oilfield Holdings Ltd.,
    Schlumberger Surenco S.A., Camco International Inc., the Company
    and Hanover Compression Limited Partnership, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 10.63 to the Companys Quarterly
    Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30,
    2001.                                                                                   
|        | 10 | .32         |  | Schedule 1.2(c) to Purchase Agreement, dated June 28,
    2001, among Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Schlumberger
    Oilfield Holdings Limited, Schlumberger Surenco S.A., Camco
    International Inc., the Company and Hanover Compression Limited
    Partnership, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to
    the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K filed with
    the SEC on February 6, 2003.                                                              

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|Exhibit |    |            
|Number  |    | Description
|        |    |            
|        | 10 | .33         |  | Amendment No. 1, dated as of August 31, 2001, to
    Purchase Agreement among Schlumberger Technology Corporation,
    Schlumberger Oilfield Holdings Ltd., Schlumberger Surenco S.A.,
    Camco International Inc., the Company and Hanover Compression
    Limited Partnership, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 99.3 to the Companys Current Report on
    Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September 14, 2001.
|        | 10 | .34         |  | Most Favored Supplier and Alliance Agreement, dated
    August 31, 2001, among Schlumberger Oilfield Holdings
    Limited, Schlumberger Technology Corporation and Hanover
    Compression Limited Partnership, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 99.4 to the Companys Current Report on
    Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September 14, 2001.                                                                  
|        | 10 | .35         |  | Agreement by and among SJMB, L.P., Charles Underbrink, John L.
    Thompson, Belleli Energy S.r.l. and Hanover Compressor Company
    and certain of its subsidiaries dated September 20, 2002,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.62 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
    year ended December 31, 2002.                                                                          
|        | 10 | .36         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 1992 Stock Compensation Plan,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.63 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
    year ended December 31, 2002.                                                                                                                                                                                                               
|        | 10 | .37         |  | Hanover Compressor Company Senior Executive Stock Option Plan,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-24953)
    on Form S-1, as amended.                                                                                                                                                                                                             
|        | 10 | .38         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 1993 Management Stock Option Plan,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-24953)
    on Form S-1, as amended.                                                                                                                                                                                                              
|        | 10 | .39         |  | Hanover Compressor Company Incentive Option Plan, incorporated
    by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Companys
    Registration Statement (File No. 333-24953) on
    Form S-1, as amended.                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
|        | 10 | .40         |  | Amendment and Restatement of the Hanover Compressor Company
    Incentive Option Plan, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 10.7 to the Companys Registration Statement
    (File No. 333-24953) on Form S-1, as
    amended.                                                                                                                                                                                     
|        | 10 | .41         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 1995 Employee Stock Option Plan,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-24953)
    on Form S-1, as amended.                                                                                                                                                                                                                
|        | 10 | .42         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 1995 Management Stock Option Plan,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-24953)
    on Form S-1, as amended.                                                                                                                                                                                                              
|        | 10 | .43         |  | Form of Stock Option Agreement for DeVille and Mcneil,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.70 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
    year ended December 31, 2002.                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
|        | 10 | .44         |  | Form of Stock Option Agreements for Wind Bros, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 10.71 to the Companys Annual
    Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
    December 31, 2002.                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
|        | 10 | .45         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 1996 Employee Stock Option Plan,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-24953)
    on Form S-1, as amended.                                                                                                                                                                                                               
|        | 10 | .46         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 1997 Stock Option Plan, as amended,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.23 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-24953)
    on Form S-1, as amended.                                                                                                                                                                                                            
|        | 10 | .47         |  | 1997 Stock Purchase Plan, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 10.24 to the Companys Registration Statement
    (File No. 333-24953) on Form S-1, as
    amended.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
|        | 10 | .48         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 1998 Stock Option Plan, incorporated
    by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to the Companys
    Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
    September 30, 1998.                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
|        | 10 | .49         |  | Hanover Compressor Company December 9, 1998 Stock Option
    Plan, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.33 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
    year ended December 31, 1998.                                                                                                                                                                                                         

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|        |    |             |  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
|------- | -- | ----------- |  | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|Exhibit |    |            
|Number  |    | Description
|        |    |            
|        | 10 | .50         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 1999 Stock Option Plan, incorporated
    by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Companys
    Registration Statement (File No. 333-32096) on
    Form S-8 filed with the SEC on March 10,
    2000.                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
|        | 10 | .51         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 2001 Equity Incentive Plan,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-73904)
    on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on November 21,
    2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                              
|        | 10 | .52         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 2003 Stock Incentive Plan,
    incorporated by reference to the Companys Definitive Proxy
    Statement on Schedule 14A, as filed with the SEC on
    April 15, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
|        | 10 | .53         |  | Employment Letter with Chad C. Deaton, dated August 19,
    2002, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.79 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended September 30, 2002.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
|        | 10 | .54         |  | Employment Letter with Peter Schreck, dated August 22,
    2000, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended March 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
|        | 10 | .55         |  | Employment Letter with Stephen York, dated March 6, 2002,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended March 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
|        | 10 | .56         |  | Separation Agreement with Mark Berg, dated February 27,
    2004, incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.74 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
    ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
|        | 10 | .57         |  | Promissory Note and Indenture dated April 21, 2004 relating
    to $6,650,000 payable to Milberg, Weiss, Bershad,
    Hynes & Lerach LLP as Escrow Agent with respect to the
    settlement fund as defined in that certain Stipulation and
    Agreement and Settlement dated as of October 23, 2003,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended March 31, 2004.
|        | 10 | .58         |  | Employment Letter with Gary M. Wilson dated April 9, 2004,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended June 30, 2004.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
|        | 10 | .59         |  | Employment Letter with John E. Jackson dated October 5,
    2004, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the
    Companys Current Report on Form 8-K, as filed with
    the SEC on October 6, 2004.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
|        | 10 | .60         |  | Employment Letter with Lee E. Beckelman dated January 31,
    2005, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the
    Companys Current Report on Form 8-K, as filed with
    the SEC on February 1, 2005.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
|        | 10 | .61         |  | Employment Letter with Anita H. Colglazier dated April 4,
    2002 with explanatory note. *                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
|        | 10 | .62         |  | Description of Change of Control Arrangement with Hilary S.
    Ware.*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
|        | 12 | .1          |  | Computation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges.*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
|        | 14 | .1          |  | P.R.I.D.E. in Performance  Hanovers Guide to
    Ethical Business Conduct, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 14.1 to the Companys Annual Report on
    Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
|        | 14 | .2          |  | Amendment to the Companys Code of Ethics, incorporated by
    reference to the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K,
    as filed with the SEC on January 20, 2005.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
|        | 21 | .1          |  | List of Subsidiaries.*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
|        | 23 | .1          |  | Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
|        | 31 | .1          |  | Certification of the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to
    Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of
    1934.*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
|        | 31 | .2          |  | Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to
    Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of
    1934.*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
|        | 32 | .1          |  | Certification of the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18
    U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to
    Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
|        | 32 | .2          |  | Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18
    U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to
    Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

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|        |    |             |  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
|------- | -- | ----------- |  | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|Exhibit |    |            
|Number  |    | Description
|        |    |            
|        | 99 | .1          |  | Letter from GKH partners regarding wind-up of GKH Investments,
    L.P. and GKH Private Limited, dated October 15, 2001,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the
    Companys Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the
    SEC on October 18, 2001.               
|        | 99 | .2          |  | Letter from GKH Partners, L.P. to Mark S. Berg, Senior Vice
    President and General Counsel of the Company, dated
    November 12, 2002, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 99.1 to the Companys Current Report on
    Form 8-K filed with the SEC on November 15, 2002.
|        | 99 | .3          |  | Letter from GKH Partners, L.P. to Mark S. Berg, Senior Vice
    President and General Counsel of the Company, dated
    March 11, 2004, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 99.1 to the Companys Current Report on
    Form 8-K filed with the SEC on March 12, 2004.      








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SIGNATURES






| |                                      
| | -------------------------------------
| | Hanover Compressor Company           
|
| | By:/s/ John E. Jackson               
| |                                      
| | John E. Jackson                      
| | President and Chief Executive Officer





|                                               |  |                                                                                   |  |                |  | 
|---------------------------------------------- |  | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |  | -------------- |  | 
|Signature                                      |  | Title                                                                             |  | Date          
|                                               |  |                                                                                   |  |               
|/s/ John E. JacksonJohn
    E. Jackson         |  | President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal
    Executive Officer) |  | March 14, 2005
|                                              
|/s/ Lee E. BeckelmanLee
    E. Beckelman       |  | Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial
    Officer)      |  | March 14, 2005
|                                              
|/s/ Anita H. ColglazierAnita
    H. Colglazier |  | Vice President and Controller (Principal Accounting Officer)                      |  | March 14, 2005
|                                              
|/s/ I. Jon BrumleyI.
    Jon Brumley           |  | Director                                                                          |  | March 14, 2005
|                                              
|/s/ Ted Collins, Jr.Ted
    Collins, Jr.       |  | Director                                                                          |  | March 14, 2005
|                                              
|/s/ Margaret K. DormanMargaret
    K. Dorman   |  | Director                                                                          |  | March 14, 2005
|                                              
|/s/ Robert R. FurgasonRobert
    R. Furgason   |  | Director                                                                          |  | March 14, 2005
|                                              
|/s/ Victor E. GrijalvaVictor
    E. Grijalva   |  | Director                                                                          |  | March 14, 2005
|                                              
|/s/ Gordon HallGordon
    Hall                 |  | Director                                                                          |  | March 14, 2005
|                                              
|/s/ Stephen M. PazukStephen
    M. Pazuk       |  | Director                                                                          |  | March 14, 2005
|                                              
|/s/ Alvin V. ShoemakerAlvin
    V. Shoemaker   |  | Director                                                                          |  | March 14, 2005

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm






Consolidated financial statements and financial statement
schedules






Internal control over financial reporting


Internal Control  Integrated
Framework Internal Control  Integrated
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HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET


|                                            |                                                                                                                         |                                                   |           |          |           |  |           |          |           | 
|------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | --------- | -------- | --------- |  | --------- | -------- | --------- | 
|                                            |                                                                                                                         | December 31,                                     
|                                            |                                                                                                                         |                                                  
|                                            |                                                                                                                         | 2004                                              |           | 2003    
|                                            |                                                                                                                         |                                                   |           |         
|                                            |                                                                                                                         | (in thousands, except par                        
|                                            |                                                                                                                         | value and share amounts)                         
|ASSETS                                     
|Current assets:                             |                                                                                                                         |                                                   |           |          |           |  |           |         
|                                            | Cash and cash equivalents                                                                                               |                                                   | $         | 38,076   |           |  | $         | 56,619   |          
|                                            | Restricted cashsecurities settlement escrow                                                                            |                                                   |           |         |           |  |           | 29,649   |          
|                                            | Accounts receivable, net of allowance of $7,573 and $5,460                                                              |                                                   |           | 205,644  |           |  |           | 195,183  |          
|                                            | Inventory, net                                                                                                          |                                                   |           | 184,798  |           |  |           | 155,297  |          
|                                            | Costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings on
    uncompleted contracts                                         |                                                   |           | 70,103   |           |  |           | 50,128   |          
|                                            | Prepaid taxes                                                                                                           |                                                   |           | 6,988    |           |  |           | 4,677    |          
|                                            | Current deferred income taxes                                                                                           |                                                   |           | 12,386   |           |  |           | 23,808   |          
|                                            | Assets held for sale                                                                                                    |                                                   |           | 5,169    |           |  |           | 17,344   |          
|                                            | Other current assets                                                                                                    |                                                   |           | 25,674   |           |  |           | 35,105   |          
|                                            |                                                                                                                         |                                                   |           |          |           |  |           |         
|                                            |                                                                                                                         | Total current assets                              |           |          | 548,838   |  |           |          | 567,810   | 
|Property, plant and equipment, net          |                                                                                                                         |                                                   | 1,877,041 |          |           |  | 2,027,654 |         
|Goodwill, net                               |                                                                                                                         |                                                   | 182,497   |          |           |  | 176,629   |         
|Intangible and other assets                 |                                                                                                                         |                                                   | 57,070    |          |           |  | 67,482    |         
|Investments in non-consolidated affiliates  |                                                                                                                         |                                                   | 90,326    |          |           |  | 88,718    |         
|Assets held for sale, non-current           |                                                                                                                         |                                                   | 6,391     |          |           |  | 13,981    |         
|                                            |                                                                                                                         |                                                   |           |          |           |  |           |         
|                                            |                                                                                                                         | Total assets                                      |           | $        | 2,762,163 |  |           | $        | 2,942,274 | 
|                                            |                                                                                                                         |                                                   |           |          |           |  |           |         
|                                           
|LIABILITIES AND COMMON STOCKHOLDERS EQUITY
|Current liabilities:                        |                                                                                                                         |                                                   |           |          |           |  |           |         
|                                            | Short-term debt                                                                                                         |                                                   | $         | 5,106    |           |  | $         | 32,519   |          
|                                            | Current maturities of long-term debt                                                                                    |                                                   |           | 1,430    |           |  |           | 3,511    |          
|                                            | Accounts payable, trade                                                                                                 |                                                   |           | 57,402   |           |  |           | 53,354   |          
|                                            | Accrued liabilities                                                                                                     |                                                   |           | 118,429  |           |  |           | 155,441  |          
|                                            | Advance billings                                                                                                        |                                                   |           | 42,588   |           |  |           | 34,380   |          
|                                            | Liabilities held for sale                                                                                               |                                                   |           | 517      |           |  |           | 1,128    |          
|                                            | Billings on uncompleted contracts in excess of costs and
    estimated earnings                                         |                                                   |           | 20,256   |           |  |           | 8,427    |          
|                                            |                                                                                                                         |                                                   |           |          |           |  |           |         
|                                            |                                                                                                                         | Total current liabilities                         |           |          | 245,728   |  |           |          | 288,760   | 
|Long-term debt                              |                                                                                                                         |                                                   | 1,637,080 |          |           |  | 1,746,793 |         
|Other liabilities                           |                                                                                                                         |                                                   | 47,232    |          |           |  | 72,464    |         
|Deferred income taxes                       |                                                                                                                         |                                                   | 53,290    |          |           |  | 52,141    |         
|                                            |                                                                                                                         |                                                   |           |          |           |  |           |         
|                                            |                                                                                                                         | Total liabilities                                 |           |          | 1,983,330 |  |           |          | 2,160,158 | 
|                                            |                                                                                                                         |                                                   |           |          |           |  |           |         
|Commitments and contingencies (Note 19)     |                                                                                                                         |                                                   |           |          |           |  |           |         
|Minority interest                           |                                                                                                                         |                                                   | 18,778    |          |           |  | 28,628    |         
|Common stockholders equity:                |                                                                                                                         |                                                   |           |          |           |  |           |         
|                                            | Common stock, $.001 par value; 200,000,000 shares authorized;
    87,653,970 and 82,649,629 shares issued, respectively |                                                   |           | 88       |           |  |           | 83       |          
|                                            | Additional paid-in capital                                                                                              |                                                   |           | 913,007  |           |  |           | 856,020  |          
|                                            | Deferred employee compensationrestricted stock grants                                                                  |                                                   |           | (15,180  | )         |  |           | (5,452   | )        
|                                            | Accumulated other comprehensive income                                                                                  |                                                   |           | 17,518   |           |  |           | 9,227    |          
|                                            | Retained deficit                                                                                                        |                                                   |           | (148,071 | )         |  |           | (104,065 | )        
|                                            | Treasury stock661,810 and 252,815 common shares, at cost,
    respectively                                             |                                                   |           | (7,307   | )         |  |           | (2,325   | )        
|                                            |                                                                                                                         |                                                   |           |          |           |  |           |         
|                                            | Total common stockholders equity                                                                                       |                                                   |           | 760,055  |           |  |           | 753,488  |          
|                                            |                                                                                                                         |                                                   |           |          |           |  |           |         
|                                            |                                                                                                                         | Total liabilities and common stockholders equity |           | $        | 2,762,163 |  |           | $        | 2,942,274 | 
|                                            |                                                                                                                         |                                                   |           |          |           |  |           |         



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HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS


|                                                                             |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |         |  
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------- | --------- | ------- | - | ---- | --------- | ------- | - | - | --------- | ------- | -
|                                                                             |                                                        | Years Ended December 31,                
|                                                                             |                                                        |                                         
|                                                                             |                                                        | 2004                                     |           | 2003    |   | 2002
|                                                                             |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |     
|                                                                             |                                                        | (In thousands, except per share amounts)
|Revenues and other income:                                                   |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|                                                                             | U.S. rentals                                           |                                          | $         | 341,570 |   |      | $         | 324,186 |   |   | $         | 328,600 |  
|                                                                             | International rentals                                  |                                          |           | 214,598 |   |      |           | 191,301 |   |   |           | 175,337 |  
|                                                                             | Parts, service and used equipment                      |                                          |           | 180,321 |   |      |           | 164,935 |   |   |           | 223,685 |  
|                                                                             | Compressor and accessory fabrication                   |                                          |           | 158,629 |   |      |           | 106,896 |   |   |           | 114,009 |  
|                                                                             | Production and processing equipment fabrication        |                                          |           | 270,284 |   |      |           | 260,660 |   |   |           | 149,656 |  
|                                                                             | Equity in income of non-consolidated affiliates        |                                          |           | 19,780  |   |      |           | 23,014  |   |   |           | 18,554  |  
|                                                                             | Other                                                  |                                          |           | 3,413   |   |      |           | 4,088   |   |   |           | 3,600   |  
|                                                                             |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|                                                                             |                                                        |                                          | 1,188,595 |         |   |      | 1,075,080 |         |   |   | 1,013,441 |        
|                                                                             |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|Expenses:                                                                    |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|                                                                             | U.S. rentals                                           |                                          |           | 144,580 |   |      |           | 127,425 |   |   |           | 122,172 |  
|                                                                             | International rentals                                  |                                          |           | 63,953  |   |      |           | 61,875  |   |   |           | 52,996  |  
|                                                                             | Parts, service and used equipment                      |                                          |           | 135,929 |   |      |           | 123,255 |   |   |           | 179,843 |  
|                                                                             | Compressor and accessory fabrication                   |                                          |           | 144,832 |   |      |           | 96,922  |   |   |           | 99,446  |  
|                                                                             | Production and processing equipment fabrication        |                                          |           | 242,251 |   |      |           | 234,203 |   |   |           | 127,442 |  
|                                                                             | Selling, general and administrative                    |                                          |           | 173,066 |   |      |           | 159,870 |   |   |           | 150,863 |  
|                                                                             | Foreign currency translation                           |                                          |           | (5,222  | ) |      |           | 2,548   |   |   |           | 16,727  |  
|                                                                             | Securities related litigation settlement               |                                          |           | (4,163  | ) |      |           | 42,991  |   |   |           |        |  
|                                                                             | Other                                                  |                                          |           | 407     |   |      |           | 2,906   |   |   |           | 27,607  |  
|                                                                             | Depreciation and amortization                          |                                          |           | 175,308 |   |      |           | 169,164 |   |   |           | 148,141 |  
|                                                                             | Goodwill impairment                                    |                                          |           |        |   |      |           | 35,466  |   |   |           | 52,103  |  
|                                                                             | Leasing expense                                        |                                          |           |        |   |      |           | 43,139  |   |   |           | 90,074  |  
|                                                                             | Interest expense                                       |                                          |           | 146,978 |   |      |           | 89,175  |   |   |           | 43,352  |  
|                                                                             |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|                                                                             |                                                        |                                          | 1,217,919 |         |   |      | 1,188,939 |         |   |   | 1,110,766 |        
|                                                                             |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|Loss from continuing operations before income taxes                          |                                                        |                                          | (29,324   | )       |   |      | (113,859  | )       |   |   | (97,325   | )      
|Provision for (benefit from) income taxes                                    |                                                        |                                          | 24,767    |         |   |      | 3,629     |         |   |   | (17,114   | )      
|                                                                             |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|Loss from continuing operations                                              |                                                        |                                          | (54,091   | )       |   |      | (117,488  | )       |   |   | (80,211   | )      
|Income from discontinued operations, net of tax                              |                                                        |                                          | 6,314     |         |   |      | 10,190    |         |   |   | 4,493     |        
|Income (loss) on sale/write-downs of discontinued
    operations, net of tax |                                                        |                                          | 3,771     |         |   |      | (14,051   | )       |   |   | (40,350   | )      
|                                                                             |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|Loss before cumulative effect of accounting changes                          |                                                        |                                          | (44,006   | )       |   |      | (121,349  | )       |   |   | (116,068  | )      
|Cumulative effect of accounting changes, net of tax                          |                                                        |                                          |          |         |   |      | (86,910   | )       |   |   |          |        
|                                                                             |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|Net loss                                                                     |                                                        | $                                        | (44,006   | )       |   | $    | (208,259  | )       |   | $ | (116,068  | )      
|                                                                             |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|Basic earnings (loss) per common share:                                      |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|                                                                             | Loss from continuing operations                        |                                          | $         | (0.64   | ) |      | $         | (1.45   | ) |   | $         | (1.01   | )
|                                                                             | Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax |                                          |           | 0.12    |   |      |           | (0.05   | ) |   |           | (0.45   | )
|                                                                             | Cumulative effect of accounting changes, net of tax    |                                          |           |        |   |      |           | (1.07   | ) |   |           |        |  
|                                                                             |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|Net loss                                                                     |                                                        | $                                        | (0.52     | )       |   | $    | (2.57     | )       |   | $ | (1.46     | )      
|                                                                             |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|Diluted earnings (loss) per common share:                                    |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|                                                                             | Loss from continuing operations                        |                                          | $         | (0.64   | ) |      | $         | (1.45   | ) |   | $         | (1.01   | )
|                                                                             | Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax |                                          |           | 0.12    |   |      |           | (0.05   | ) |   |           | (0.45   | )
|                                                                             | Cumulative effect of accounting changes, net of tax    |                                          |           |        |   |      |           | (1.07   | ) |   |           |        |  
|                                                                             |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|Net loss                                                                     |                                                        | $                                        | (0.52     | )       |   | $    | (2.57     | )       |   | $ | (1.46     | )      
|                                                                             |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|Weighted average common and equivalent shares outstanding:                   |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|                                                                             | Basic                                                  |                                          |           | 84,792  |   |      |           | 81,123  |   |   |           | 79,500  |  
|                                                                             |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        
|                                                                             | Diluted                                                |                                          |           | 84,792  |   |      |           | 81,123  |   |   |           | 79,500  |  
|                                                                             |                                                        |                                          |           |         |   |      |           |         |   |   |           |        



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HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)


|                                   |                                                                          |                          |         |       |   |      |          |        |  |   |          |        |  
|---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------ | ------- | ----- | - | ---- | -------- | ------ |  | - | -------- | ------ | -
|                                   |                                                                          | Years Ended December 31,
|                                   |                                                                          |                         
|                                   |                                                                          | 2004                     |         | 2003  |   | 2002
|                                   |                                                                          |                          |         |       |   |     
|                                   |                                                                          | (in thousands)          
|Net loss                           |                                                                          | $                        | (44,006 | )     |   | $    | (208,259 | )      |  | $ | (116,068 | )     
|Other comprehensive income (loss): |                                                                          |                          |         |       |   |      |          |        |  |   |          |       
|                                   | Change in fair value of derivative financial instruments, net of
    tax |                          |         | 8,638 |   |      |          | 5,693  |  |   |          | (8,866 | )
|                                   | Foreign currency translation adjustment                                  |                          |         | (347  | ) |      |          | 17,230 |  |   |          | 1,727  |  
|                                   |                                                                          |                          |         |       |   |      |          |        |  |   |          |       
|Comprehensive loss                 |                                                                          | $                        | (35,715 | )     |   | $    | (185,336 | )      |  | $ | (123,207 | )     
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HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS


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|------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ------- | ------- | -------- | -------- | ------- | ------- | ------- | -------- | ------- | ------- | -------- | -
|                                                        |                                                                                     | Years Ended December 31,                                                      
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                               
|                                                        |                                                                                     | 2004                                                                           |                                                                           | 2003                                                   |         | 2002   
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                        |         |        
|                                                        |                                                                                     | (In thousands)                                                                
|Cash flows from operating activities:                   |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                        |         |         |          |          |         |         |         |         
|                                                        | Net loss                                                                            |                                                                                | $                                                                         | (44,006                                                | )       |         | $        | (208,259 | )       |         | $       | (116,068 | )      
|                                                        | Adjustments:                                                                        |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                        |         |         |          |          |         |         |         |          |        
|                                                        |                                                                                     | Depreciation and amortization                                                  |                                                                           |                                                        | 175,308 |         |          |          | 169,164 |         |         |          | 148,141 |        
|                                                        |                                                                                     | Amortization of debt issuance costs and debt discount                          |                                                                           |                                                        | 120     |         |          |          | 120     |         |         |          | 121     |        
|                                                        |                                                                                     | Loss (income) from discontinued operations, net of tax                         |                                                                           |                                                        | (10,085 | )       |          |          | 3,861   |         |         |          | 35,857  |        
|                                                        |                                                                                     | Cumulative effect of accounting changes, net of tax                            |                                                                           |                                                        |        |         |          |          | 86,910  |         |         |          |        |        
|                                                        |                                                                                     | Bad debt expense                                                               |                                                                           |                                                        | 2,658   |         |          |          | 4,028   |         |         |          | 7,091   |        
|                                                        |                                                                                     | Gain on sale of property, plant and equipment                                  |                                                                           |                                                        | (6,076  | )       |          |          | (6,012  | )       |         |          | (7,769  | )      
|                                                        |                                                                                     | Equity in income of non-consolidated affiliates, net of
    dividends received |                                                                           |                                                        | (10,112 | )       |          |          | (4,563  | )       |         |          | (1,966  | )      
|                                                        |                                                                                     | Loss on investments and charges for non-consolidated affiliates                |                                                                           |                                                        |        |         |          |          |        |         |         |          | 15,950  |        
|                                                        |                                                                                     | (Gain) loss on derivative instruments                                          |                                                                           |                                                        | 1,886   |         |          |          | (4,606  | )       |         |          | (3,245  | )      
|                                                        |                                                                                     | Provision for inventory impairment and reserves                                |                                                                           |                                                        | 1,062   |         |          |          | 1,536   |         |         |          | 13,853  |        
|                                                        |                                                                                     | Securities related litigation settlement, in excess of cash paid               |                                                                           |                                                        | (6,326  | )       |          |          | 39,494  |         |         |          |        |        
|                                                        |                                                                                     | Write-down of notes receivable                                                 |                                                                           |                                                        |        |         |          |          |        |         |         |          | 8,454   |        
|                                                        |                                                                                     | Goodwill impairment                                                            |                                                                           |                                                        |        |         |          |          | 35,466  |         |         |          | 52,103  |        
|                                                        |                                                                                     | Gain on sale of non-consolidated affiliates                                    |                                                                           |                                                        | (300    | )       |          |          |        |         |         |          |        |        
|                                                        |                                                                                     | Restricted stock compensation expense                                          |                                                                           |                                                        | 2,599   |         |          |          | 1,178   |         |         |          | 423     |        
|                                                        |                                                                                     | Pay-in-kind interest on long-term notes payable                                |                                                                           |                                                        | 20,966  |         |          |          | 21,048  |         |         |          | 17,163  |        
|                                                        |                                                                                     | Deferred income taxes                                                          |                                                                           |                                                        | 11,627  |         |          |          | (9,787  | )       |         |          | (18,363 | )      
|                                                        |                                                                                     | Changes in assets and liabilities, excluding business
    combinations:        |                                                                           |                                                        |         |         |          |          |         |         |         |          |         |        
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                | Accounts receivable and notes                                             |                                                        |         | (4,021  | )        |          |         | 17,537  |         |          |         | 90,279  |         
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                | Inventory                                                                 |                                                        |         | (23,028 | )        |          |         | 5,632   |         |          |         | 4,422   |         
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                | Costs and estimated earnings versus billings on uncompleted
    contracts |                                                        |         | (5,733  | )        |          |         | 16,455  |         |          |         | 33,368  |         
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                | Accounts payable and other liabilities                                    |                                                        |         | (3,806  | )        |          |         | (33,259 | )       |          |         | (67,925 | )       
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                | Advance billings                                                          |                                                        |         | 16,130  |          |          |         | (4,213  | )       |          |         | (8,394  | )       
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                | Prepaid and other                                                         |                                                        |         | 4,859   |          |          |         | 18,334  |         |          |         | (15,927 | )       
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                        |         |         |          |          |         |         |         |         
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           | Net cash provided by continuing operations             |         |         | 123,722  |          |         |         | 150,064 |          |         |         | 187,568  |  
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           | Net cash provided by discontinued operations           |         |         | 8,115    |          |         |         | 14,671  |          |         |         | 8,149    |  
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                        |         |         |          |          |         |         |         |         
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           | Net cash provided by operating activities              |         |         | 131,837  |          |         |         | 164,735 |          |         |         | 195,717  |  
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                        |         |         |          |          |         |         |         |         
|Cash flows from investing activities:                   |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                        |         |         |          |          |         |         |         |         
|                                                        | Capital expenditures                                                                |                                                                                |                                                                           | (90,496                                                | )       |         |          | (142,466 | )       |         |         | (249,203 | )      
|                                                        | Payments for deferred lease transaction costs                                       |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                       |         |         |          | (1,246   | )       |         |         | (1,568   | )      
|                                                        | Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment                                 |                                                                                |                                                                           | 24,265                                                 |         |         |          | 23,009   |         |         |         | 69,685   |        
|                                                        | Proceeds from sale of non-consolidated affiliates                                   |                                                                                |                                                                           | 4,663                                                  |         |         |          | 500      |         |         |         |         |        
|                                                        | Cash used for business acquisitions, net                                            |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                       |         |         |          | (15,000  | )       |         |         | (10,440  | )      
|                                                        | Cash returned from non-consolidated affiliates                                      |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                       |         |         |          | 64,837   |         |         |         | 17,429   |        
|                                                        | Cash used to acquire investments in and advances to
    non-consolidated affiliates |                                                                                |                                                                           | (250                                                   | )       |         |          | (500     | )       |         |         |         |        
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                        |         |         |          |          |         |         |         |         
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           | Net cash used in continuing operations                 |         |         | (61,818  | )        |         |         | (70,866 | )        |         |         | (174,097 | )
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           | Net cash provided by (used in) discontinued operations |         |         | 72,947   |          |         |         | 27,396  |          |         |         | (19,606  | )
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                        |         |         |          |          |         |         |         |         
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           | Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities    |         |         | 11,129   |          |         |         | (43,470 | )        |         |         | (193,703 | )
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                        |         |         |          |          |         |         |         |         
|Cash flows from financing activities:                   |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                        |         |         |          |          |         |         |         |         
|                                                        | Borrowings on revolving credit facilities                                           |                                                                                |                                                                           | 52,200                                                 |         |         |          | 145,000  |         |         |         | 141,750  |        
|                                                        | Repayments on revolving credit facilities                                           |                                                                                |                                                                           | (72,200                                                | )       |         |          | (274,500 | )       |         |         | (142,250 | )      
|                                                        | Payments for debt issue costs                                                       |                                                                                |                                                                           | (253                                                   | )       |         |          | (7,464   | )       |         |         | (644     | )      
|                                                        | Purchase of treasury stock                                                          |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                       |         |         |          |         |         |         |         | (1,608   | )      
|                                                        | Proceeds from stock options exercised                                               |                                                                                |                                                                           | 9,549                                                  |         |         |          | 6,699    |         |         |         | 6,661    |        
|                                                        | Proceeds from employee stock purchase                                               |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                       |         |         |          |         |         |         |         | 277      |        
|                                                        | Issuance of convertible senior notes, net                                           |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                       |         |         |          | 138,941  |         |         |         |         |        
|                                                        | Issuance of senior notes, net                                                       |                                                                                |                                                                           | 194,125                                                |         |         |          | 193,698  |         |         |         |         |        
|                                                        | Payments of 1999 equipment lease obligations                                        |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                       |         |         |          | (200,000 | )       |         |         |         |        
|                                                        | Payments of 2000A equipment lease obligations                                       |                                                                                |                                                                           | (200,000                                               | )       |         |          |         |         |         |         |         |        
|                                                        | Payments of 2000B equipment lease obligations                                       |                                                                                |                                                                           | (115,000                                               | )       |         |          |         |         |         |         |         |        
|                                                        | Repayment of other debt                                                             |                                                                                |                                                                           | (30,771                                                | )       |         |          | (68,293  | )       |         |         | (7,654   | )      
|                                                        | Proceeds from employee stockholder notes                                            |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                       |         |         |          |         |         |         |         | 120      |        
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                        |         |         |          |          |         |         |         |         
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           | Net cash used in continuing operations                 |         |         | (162,350 | )        |         |         | (65,919 | )        |         |         | (3,348   | )
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           | Net cash used in discontinued operations               |         |         |         |          |         |         | (18,538 | )        |         |         | (884     | )
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                        |         |         |          |          |         |         |         |         
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           | Net cash used in financing activities                  |         |         | (162,350 | )        |         |         | (84,457 | )        |         |         | (4,232   | )
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                        |         |         |          |          |         |         |         |         
|Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and equivalents |                                                                                     |                                                                                | 841                                                                       |                                                        |         |         | 800      |          |         |         | (1,962  | )       
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                        |         |         |          |          |         |         |         |         
|Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents    |                                                                                     |                                                                                | (18,543                                                                   | )                                                      |         |         | 37,608   |          |         |         | (4,180  | )       
|Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year          |                                                                                     |                                                                                | 56,619                                                                    |                                                        |         |         | 19,011   |          |         |         | 23,191  |         
|                                                        |                                                                                     |                                                                                |                                                                           |                                                        |         |         |          |          |         |         |         |         
|Cash and cash equivalents at end of year                |                                                                                     | $                                                                              | 38,076                                                                    |                                                        |         | $       | 56,619   |          |         | $       | 19,011  |         
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HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS


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|                                                  |                                                            | Years Ended December 31,
|                                                  |                                                            |                         
|                                                  |                                                            | 2004                     |   | 2003    |  | 2002
|                                                  |                                                            |                          |   |         |  |     
|                                                  |                                                            | (in thousands)          
|Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information: |                                                            |                          |   |         |  |      |   |        |   |  |   |        
|                                                  | Interest paid, net of capitalized amounts                  |                          | $ | 125,047 |  |      | $ | 49,011 |   |  | $ | 23,263  |  
|                                                  |                                                            |                          |   |         |  |      |   |        |   |  |   |        
|                                                  | Income taxes paid (refunded), net                          |                          | $ | 15,830  |  |      | $ | 1,129  |   |  | $ | (4,212  | )
|                                                  |                                                            |                          |   |         |  |      |   |        |   |  |   |        
|Supplemental disclosure of noncash transactions:  |                                                            |                          |   |         |  |      |   |        |   |  |   |        
|                                                  | Debt paid for property, plant and equipment                |                          |   |        |  |      |   |       |   |  | $ | (4,352  | )
|                                                  |                                                            |                          |   |         |  |      |   |        |   |  |   |        
|                                                  | Assets (received) sold in exchange for note receivable     |                          | $ | 1,314   |  |      | $ | 3,300  |   |  | $ | 258     |  
|                                                  |                                                            |                          |   |         |  |      |   |        |   |  |   |        
|                                                  | Common stock issued in exchange for notes receivable       |                          | $ |        |  |      | $ | 35     |   |  | $ | 274     |  
|                                                  |                                                            |                          |   |         |  |      |   |        |   |  |   |        
|                                                  | Conversion of deferred stock option liability              |                          | $ | 334     |  |      | $ | 289    |   |  | $ | 253     |  
|                                                  |                                                            |                          |   |         |  |      |   |        |   |  |   |        
|                                                  | Common stock issued for securities settlement              |                          | $ | 29,800  |  |      |   |       |   |  |   |        |  
|                                                  |                                                            |                          |   |         |  |      |   |        |   |  |   |        
|                                                  | Issuance of restricted stock grants, net of forfeitures    |                          | $ | 12,327  |  |      | $ | 4,345  |   |  | $ | 2,708   |  
|                                                  |                                                            |                          |   |         |  |      |   |        |   |  |   |        
|Acquisitions of businesses:                       |                                                            |                          |   |         |  |      |   |        |   |  |   |        
|                                                  | Cash                                                       |                          |   |        |  |      | $ | 209    |   |  |   |        |  
|                                                  |                                                            |                          |   |         |  |      |   |        |   |  |   |        
|                                                  | Property, plant and equipment acquired                     |                          |   |        |  |      | $ | 267    |   |  | $ | 11,716  |  
|                                                  |                                                            |                          |   |         |  |      |   |        |   |  |   |        
|                                                  | Other assets acquired, net of cash acquired                |                          |   |        |  |      | $ | 3,918  |   |  | $ | 102,204 |  
|                                                  |                                                            |                          |   |         |  |      |   |        |   |  |   |        
|                                                  | Investments in and advances to non-consolidated affiliates |                          |   |        |  |      | $ | (4,673 | ) |  |   |        |  
|                                                  |                                                            |                          |   |         |  |      |   |        |   |  |   |        
|                                                  | Goodwill                                                   |                          |   |        |  |      | $ | 15,558 |   |  | $ | 5,162   |  
|                                                  |                                                            |                          |   |         |  |      |   |        |   |  |   |        
|                                                  | Liabilities assumed                                        |                          |   |        |  |      | $ | (279   | ) |  | $ | (72,209 | )
|                                                  |                                                            |                          |   |         |  |      |   |        |   |  |   |        
|                                                  | Debt issued or assumed                                     |                          |   |        |  |      |   |       |   |  | $ | (36,433 | )
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HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMMON STOCKHOLDERS EQUITY


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|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |  | --------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------- |  | ------------- | -- | ------------- |  | ----------- | ------- | ------------- |  | ------------ | ------- | --------- |  | - | ------ | - |  | - | ------ | - |  | - | ------- | - |  | - | -------- | -
|                                                                                         |  |                                   |            |            |  | Accumulated   |    |               |  | Notes       |         | Deferred      |  |             
|                                                                                         |  | Common stock                      |            | Additional |  | other         |    |               |  | receivable- |         | compensation- |  | Retained    
|                                                                                         |  |                                   |            | paid-in    |  | comprehensive |    | Treasury      |  | employee    |         | restricted    |  | earnings    
|                                                                                         |  | Shares                            |            | Amount     |  | capital       |    | income (loss) |  | stock       |         | stockholders  |  | stock grants |         | (deficit)
|                                                                                         |  |                                   |            |            |  |               |    |               |  |             |         |               |  |              |         |          
|                                                                                         |  | (in thousands, except share data)
|Balance at December 31, 2001                                                             |  |                                   | 79,228,179 |            |  | $             | 79 |               |  | $           | 828,939 |               |  | $            | (6,557  | )         |  | $ | (717   | ) |  | $ | (2,538 | ) |  | $ |        |   |  | $ | 220,262  |  
|Exercise of stock options                                                                |  |                                   | 1,422,850  |            |  |               | 2  |               |  |             | 6,912   |               |  |              |        |           |  |   |       |   |  |   |       |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |  
|Cumulative translation adjustment                                                        |  |                                   |           |            |  |               |   |               |  |             |        |               |  |              | 1,727   |           |  |   |       |   |  |   |       |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |  
|Change in fair value of derivative financial instrument, net of
    tax                  |  |                                   |           |            |  |               |   |               |  |             |        |               |  |              | (8,866  | )         |  |   |       |   |  |   |       |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |  
|Issuance of restricted stock grants, net of amortization expense                         |  |                                   | 142,630    |            |  |               |   |               |  |             | 2,708   |               |  |              |        |           |  |   |       |   |  |   |       |   |  |   | (2,285  | ) |  |   |         |  
|Issuance of common stock to employees                                                    |  |                                   | 21,550     |            |  |               |   |               |  |             | 551     |               |  |              |        |           |  |   |       |   |  |   | (274   | ) |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |  
|Purchase of 147,322 treasury shares at $8.96 per share                                   |  |                                   |           |            |  |               |   |               |  |             |        |               |  |              |        |           |  |   | (1,320 | ) |  |   |       |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |  
|Purchase of 30,054 treasury shares at $9.60 per share                                    |  |                                   |           |            |  |               |   |               |  |             |        |               |  |              |        |           |  |   | (288   | ) |  |   |       |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |  
|Repayment of employee stockholder notes                                                  |  |                                   |           |            |  |               |   |               |  |             |        |               |  |              |        |           |  |   |       |   |  |   | 120    |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |  
|Income tax benefit from stock options exercised                                          |  |                                   |           |            |  |               |   |               |  |             | 2,547   |               |  |              |        |           |  |   |       |   |  |   |       |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |  
|Reserve for collectibility                                                               |  |                                   |           |            |  |               |   |               |  |             |        |               |  |              |        |           |  |   |       |   |  |   | 2,692  |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |  
|Net loss                                                                                 |  |                                   |           |            |  |               |   |               |  |             |        |               |  |              |        |           |  |   |       |   |  |   |       |   |  |   |        |   |  |   | (116,068 | )
|                                                                                         |  |                                   |            |            |  |               |    |               |  |             |         |               |  |              |         |           |  |   |        |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |   |  |   |          |  
|Balance at December 31, 2002                                                             |  |                                   | 80,815,209 |            |  | $             | 81 |               |  | $           | 841,657 |               |  | $            | (13,696 | )         |  | $ | (2,325 | ) |  | $ |       |   |  | $ | (2,285  | ) |  | $ | 104,194  |  
|Exercise of stock options                                                                |  |                                   | 1,432,636  |            |  |               | 1  |               |  |             | 6,987   |               |  |              |        |           |  |   |       |   |  |   |       |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |  
|Cumulative translation adjustment                                                        |  |                                   |           |            |  |               |   |               |  |             |        |               |  |              | 17,230  |           |  |   |       |   |  |   |       |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |  
|Change in fair value of derivative financial instrument, net of
    tax                  |  |                                   |           |            |  |               |   |               |  |             |        |               |  |              | 5,693   |           |  |   |       |   |  |   |       |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |  
|Issuance of restricted stock grants, net of forfeitures, net of
    amortization expense |  |                                   | 400,384    |            |  |               | 1  |               |  |             | 4,345   |               |  |              |        |           |  |   |       |   |  |   |       |   |  |   | (3,167  | ) |  |   |         |  
|Issuance of common stock to employees                                                    |  |                                   | 1,400      |            |  |               |   |               |  |             | 35      |               |  |              |        |           |  |   |       |   |  |   |       |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |  
|Income tax benefit from stock options exercised                                          |  |                                   |           |            |  |               |   |               |  |             | 2,996   |               |  |              |        |           |  |   |       |   |  |   |       |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |  
|Net loss                                                                                 |  |                                   |           |            |  |               |   |               |  |             |        |               |  |              |        |           |  |   |       |   |  |   |       |   |  |   |        |   |  |   | (208,259 | )
|                                                                                         |  |                                   |            |            |  |               |    |               |  |             |         |               |  |              |         |           |  |   |        |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |   |  |   |          |  
|Balance at December 31, 2003                                                             |  |                                   | 82,649,629 |            |  | $             | 83 |               |  | $           | 856,020 |               |  | $            | 9,227   |           |  | $ | (2,325 | ) |  | $ |       |   |  | $ | (5,452  | ) |  | $ | (104,065 | )
|Exercise of stock options                                                                |  |                                   | 1,140,073  |            |  |               | 1  |               |  |             | 9,882   |               |  |              |        |           |  |   |       |   |  |   |       |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |  
|Cumulative translation adjustment                                                        |  |                                   |           |            |  |               |   |               |  |             |        |               |  |              | (347    | )         |  |   |       |   |  |   |       |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |  
|Change in fair value of derivative financial instrument, net of
    tax                  |  |                                   |           |            |  |               |   |               |  |             |        |               |  |              | 8,638   |           |  |   |       |   |  |   |       |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |  
|Issuance of restricted stock grants, net of forfeitures, net of
    amortization expense |  |                                   | 1,364,268  |            |  |               | 1  |               |  |             | 17,308  |               |  |              |        |           |  |   | (4,982 | ) |  |   |       |   |  |   | (9,728  | ) |  |   |         |  
|Issuance of common stock for shareholder litigation                                      |  |                                   | 2,500,000  |            |  |               | 3  |               |  |             | 29,797  |               |  |              |        |           |  |   |       |   |  |   |       |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |  
|Net loss                                                                                 |  |                                   |           |            |  |               |   |               |  |             |        |               |  |              |        |           |  |   |       |   |  |   |       |   |  |   |        |   |  |   | (44,006  | )
|                                                                                         |  |                                   |            |            |  |               |    |               |  |             |         |               |  |              |         |           |  |   |        |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |   |  |   |          |  
|Balance at December 31, 2004                                                             |  |                                   | 87,653,970 |            |  | $             | 88 |               |  | $           | 913,007 |               |  | $            | 17,518  |           |  | $ | (7,307 | ) |  | $ |       |   |  | $ | (15,180 | ) |  | $ | (148,071 | )
|                                                                                         |  |                                   |            |            |  |               |    |               |  |             |         |               |  |              |         |           |  |   |        |   |  |   |        |   |  |   |         |   |  |   |          |  



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HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS


December 31, 2004, 2003 and 2002




|   |                                                          
|-- | ---------------------------------------------------------
|1. | The Company, Business and Significant Accounting Policies







| |                            
| | ---------------------------
| | Principles of Consolidation





| |                                             
| | --------------------------------------------
| | Use of Estimates in the Financial Statements







| |                          
| | -------------------------
| | Cash and Cash Equivalents



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HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  (Continued)




| |                
| | ---------------
| | Restricted Cash





| |                    
| | -------------------
| | Revenue Recognition







| |                              
| | -----------------------------
| | Concentrations of Credit Risk







| |          
| | ---------
| | Inventory



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HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  (Continued)




| |                              
| | -----------------------------
| | Property, Plant and Equipment



|                                                          |  |  |                | 
|--------------------------------------------------------- |  |  | -------------- | 
|Compression equipment, facilities and other rental assets |  |  | 4 to 30 years  | 
|Buildings                                                 |  |  | 20 to 30 years | 
|Transportation, shop equipment and other                  |  |  | 3 to 12 years  | 





| |                  
| | -----------------
| | Computer software





| |                                          
| | -----------------------------------------
| | Long-Lived Assets, other than Intangibles







| |                               
| | ------------------------------
| | Goodwill and Other Intangibles





| |                            
| | ---------------------------
| | Sale Leaseback Transactions



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HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  (Continued)






| |             
| | ------------
| | Income Taxes





| |                             
| | ----------------------------
| | Foreign Currency Translation





| |                          
| | -------------------------
| | Earnings Per Common Share





|                                                                                                                 |                                                          |                          |        |      |  |      |        |    |  |  |        |    | 
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | ------ | ---- |  | ---- | ------ | -- |  |  | ------ | -- | 
|                                                                                                                 |                                                          | Years Ended December 31,
|                                                                                                                 |                                                          |                         
|                                                                                                                 |                                                          | 2004                     |        | 2003 |  | 2002
|                                                                                                                 |                                                          |                          |        |      |  |     
|Weighted average common shares outstanding  used in
    basic loss per common share                             |                                                          |                          | 84,792 |      |  |      | 81,123 |    |  |  | 79,500 |   
|Net dilutive potential common shares issuable:                                                                   |                                                          |                          |        |      |  |      |        |    |  |  |        |   
|                                                                                                                 | On exercise of options and vesting of restricted stock   |                          |        | **   |  |      |        | ** |  |  |        | ** | 
|                                                                                                                 | On exercise of warrants                                  |                          |        | **   |  |      |        | ** |  |  |        | ** | 
|                                                                                                                 | On conversion of convertible subordinated notes due 2029 |                          |        | **   |  |      |        | ** |  |  |        | ** | 
|                                                                                                                 | On conversion of convertible senior notes due 2008       |                          |        | **   |  |      |        | ** |  |  |        | ** | 
|                                                                                                                 | On conversion of convertible senior notes due 2014       |                          |        | **   |  |      |        | ** |  |  |        | ** | 
|                                                                                                                 |                                                          |                          |        |      |  |      |        |    |  |  |        |   
|Weighted average common shares and dilutive potential common
    shares  used in dilutive loss per common share |                                                          |                          | 84,792 |      |  |      | 81,123 |    |  |  | 79,500 |   
|                                                                                                                 |                                                          |                          |        |      |  |      |        |    |  |  |        |   






|   |                                                                                             
|-- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|** | Excluded from diluted loss per common share as the effect would
    have been anti-dilutive.

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HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  (Continued)




|                                               |                                                                                              |                          |        |       |  |      |        |       |  |  |        |       | 
|---------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | ------ | ----- |  | ---- | ------ | ----- |  |  | ------ | ----- | 
|                                               |                                                                                              | Years Ended December 31,
|                                               |                                                                                              |                         
|                                               |                                                                                              | 2004                     |        | 2003  |  | 2002
|                                               |                                                                                              |                          |        |       |  |     
|Net dilutive potential common shares issuable: |                                                                                              |                          |        |       |  |      |        |       |  |  |        |      
|                                               | On exercise of options and vesting of restricted stock                                       |                          |        | 2,512 |  |      |        | 1,264 |  |  |        | 2,442 | 
|                                               | On exercise of options-exercise price greater than average
    market value at end of period |                          |        | 995   |  |      |        | 3,929 |  |  |        | 931   | 
|                                               | On exercise of warrants                                                                      |                          |        | 4     |  |      |        | 4     |  |  |        | 4     | 
|                                               | On conversion of convertible subordinated notes due 2029                                     |                          |        | 4,825 |  |      |        | 4,825 |  |  |        | 4,825 | 
|                                               | On conversion of convertible senior notes due 2008                                           |                          |        | 4,370 |  |      |        | 4,370 |  |  |        | 4,370 | 
|                                               | On conversion of convertible senior notes due 2014                                           |                          |        | 9,583 |  |      |        | 420   |  |  |        |      | 
|                                               |                                                                                              |                          |        |       |  |      |        |       |  |  |        |      
|                                               |                                                                                              |                          | 22,289 |       |  |      | 14,812 |       |  |  | 12,572 |      
|                                               |                                                                                              |                          |        |       |  |      |        |       |  |  |        |      



| |                                           
| | ------------------------------------------
| | Stock Options and Stock-Based Compensation



|                     |                                                                                                          |                          |         |        |   |      |          |        |   |   |          |        |  
|-------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | ------- | ------ | - | ---- | -------- | ------ | - | - | -------- | ------ | -
|                     |                                                                                                          | Years Ended December 31,
|                     |                                                                                                          |                         
|                     |                                                                                                          | 2004                     |         | 2003   |   | 2002
|                     |                                                                                                          |                          |         |        |   |     
|Net loss as reported |                                                                                                          | $                        | (44,006 | )      |   | $    | (208,259 | )      |   | $ | (116,068 | )     
|                     | Add back: Restricted stock grant expense, net of tax                                                     |                          |         | 2,599  |   |      |          | 766    |   |   |          | 275    |  
|                     | Deduct: Stock-based employee compensation expense determined
    under the fair value method, net of tax |                          |         | (4,817 | ) |      |          | (2,628 | ) |   |          | (2,753 | )
|                     |                                                                                                          |                          |         |        |   |      |          |        |   |   |          |       
|Pro forma net loss   |                                                                                                          | $                        | (46,224 | )      |   | $    | (210,121 | )      |   | $ | (118,546 | )     
|                     |                                                                                                          |                          |         |        |   |      |          |        |   |   |          |       
|Loss per share:      |                                                                                                          |                          |         |        |   |      |          |        |   |   |          |       
|                     | Basic, as reported                                                                                       |                          | $       | (0.52  | ) |      | $        | (2.57  | ) |   | $        | (1.46  | )
|                     | Basic, pro forma                                                                                         |                          | $       | (0.55  | ) |      | $        | (2.59  | ) |   | $        | (1.49  | )
|                     | Diluted, as reported                                                                                     |                          | $       | (0.52  | ) |      | $        | (2.57  | ) |   | $        | (1.46  | )
|                     | Diluted, pro forma                                                                                       |                          | $       | (0.55  | ) |      | $        | (2.59  | ) |   | $        | (1.49  | )





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HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  (Continued)








| |                     
| | --------------------
| | Comprehensive Income



|                                                                         |  |              |        |      |  |   |        |  
|------------------------------------------------------------------------ |  | ------------ | ------ | ---- |  | - | ------ | -
|                                                                         |  | December 31,
|                                                                         |  |             
|                                                                         |  | 2004         |        | 2003
|                                                                         |  |              |        |     
|Change in fair value of derivative financial instruments, net of
    tax |  | $            | (608   | )    |  | $ | (9,246 | )
|Foreign currency translation adjustment                                  |  |              | 18,126 |      |  |   | 18,473 |  
|                                                                         |  |              |        |      |  |   |        |  
|                                                                         |  | $            | 17,518 |      |  | $ | 9,227  |  
|                                                                         |  |              |        |      |  |   |        |  





| |                      
| | ---------------------
| | Financial Instruments









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HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  (Continued)




| |                  
| | -----------------
| | Reclassifications



2.     Business Acquisitions






| |                             
| | ----------------------------
| | Year Ended December 31, 2003

Belleli Acquisition.








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HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  (Continued)




| |                             
| | ----------------------------
| | Year Ended December 31, 2002













| |                      
| | ---------------------
| | Pro Forma Information



|                              |  |              |           |  
|----------------------------- |  | ------------ | --------- | -
|                              |  | Years Ended 
|                              |  | December 31,
|                              |  | 2002        
|                              |  |             
|                              |  | (unaudited) 
|Revenue                       |  | $            | 1,108,990 |  
|Net loss                      |  |              | (116,262  | )
|Loss per common sharebasic   |  |              | (1.46     | )
|Loss per common sharediluted |  |              | (1.46     | )



|   |                                                       
|-- | ------------------------------------------------------
|3. | Discontinued Operations and Other Assets Held for Sale



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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  (Continued)












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HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  (Continued)




|                                                        |                                                 |                          |        |        |   |      |        |        |  |   |        |        | 
|------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | ------ | ------ | - | ---- | ------ | ------ |  | - | ------ | ------ | 
|                                                        |                                                 | Years Ended December 31,
|                                                        |                                                 | 2004                     |        | 2003   |   | 2002
|                                                        |                                                 |                          |        |        |   |     
|Revenues and other:                                     |                                                 |                          |        |        |   |      |        |        |  |   |        |       
|                                                        | U.S. rentals                                    |                          | $      | 261    |   |      | $      | 4,490  |  |   | $      | 2,870  | 
|                                                        | International rentals                           |                          |        | 12,930 |   |      |        | 15,103 |  |   |        | 14,363 | 
|                                                        | Parts, service and used equipment               |                          |        | 9,663  |   |      |        | 21,311 |  |   |        | 20,357 | 
|                                                        | Equity in income of non-consolidated affiliates |                          |        | 123    |   |      |        | 624    |  |   |        | 662    | 
|                                                        | Other                                           |                          |        | 695    |   |      |        | 928    |  |   |        | 641    | 
|                                                        |                                                 |                          |        |        |   |      |        |        |  |   |        |       
|                                                        |                                                 |                          | 23,672 |        |   |      | 42,456 |        |  |   | 38,893 |       
|                                                        |                                                 |                          |        |        |   |      |        |        |  |   |        |       
|Expenses:                                               |                                                 |                          |        |        |   |      |        |        |  |   |        |       
|                                                        | U.S. rentals                                    |                          |        | 914    |   |      |        | 1,176  |  |   |        | 363    | 
|                                                        | International rentals                           |                          |        | 5,827  |   |      |        | 5,590  |  |   |        | 4,583  | 
|                                                        | Parts, service and used equipment               |                          |        | 7,010  |   |      |        | 14,698 |  |   |        | 13,486 | 
|                                                        | Selling, general and administrative             |                          |        | 1,657  |   |      |        | 8,297  |  |   |        | 11,159 | 
|                                                        | Foreign currency translation                    |                          |        | (1,087 | ) |      |        |       |  |   |        | 26     | 
|                                                        | Depreciation and amortization                   |                          |        | 2,964  |   |      |        | 3,438  |  |   |        | 4,712  | 
|                                                        | Interest expense                                |                          |        |       |   |      |        | 796    |  |   |        | 481    | 
|                                                        | Other                                           |                          |        | 468    |   |      |        | 433    |  |   |        | 1,309  | 
|                                                        |                                                 |                          |        |        |   |      |        |        |  |   |        |       
|                                                        |                                                 |                          | 17,753 |        |   |      | 34,428 |        |  |   | 36,119 |       
|                                                        |                                                 |                          |        |        |   |      |        |        |  |   |        |       
|Income from discontinued operations before income taxes |                                                 |                          | 5,919  |        |   |      | 8,028  |        |  |   | 2,774  |       
|Benefit from income taxes                               |                                                 |                          | (395   | )      |   |      | (2,162 | )      |  |   | (1,719 | )     
|                                                        |                                                 |                          |        |        |   |      |        |        |  |   |        |       
|Income from discontinued operations                     |                                                 | $                        | 6,314  |        |   | $    | 10,190 |        |  | $ | 4,493  |       
|                                                        |                                                 |                          |        |        |   |      |        |        |  |   |        |       





|                             |                            |                          |       |            |       |            |       |       |       |   |       |       |       |   |       |        |        | 
|---------------------------- | -------------------------- | ------------------------ | ----- | ---------- | ----- | ---------- | ----- | ----- | ----- | - | ----- | ----- | ----- | - | ----- | ------ | ------ | 
|                             |                            |                          |       | Non-       |       |            |       |      
|                             |                            |                          |       | Oilfield   |       |            |       |      
|                             |                            | Used                     |       | Power      |       |            |       |      
|                             |                            | Equipment                |       | Generation |       | Facilities |       | Total
|                             |                            |                          |       |            |       |            |       |      
|Current assets               |                            | $                        | 2,455 |            |       | $          | 2,714 |       |       | $ |      |       |       | $ | 5,169 |       
|Property plant and equipment |                            |                          |      |            |       |            | 1,077 |       |       |   | 5,314 |       |       |   | 6,391 |       
|                             |                            |                          |       |            |       |            |       |       |       |   |       |       |       |   |       |       
|                             | Total assets held for sale |                          |       | 2,455      |       |            |       | 3,791 |       |   |       | 5,314 |       |   |       | 11,560 |       
|Current liabilities          |                            |                          |      |            |       |            | 517   |       |       |   |      |       |       |   | 517   |       
|                             |                            |                          |       |            |       |            |       |       |       |   |       |       |       |   |       |       
|                             | Liabilities held for sale  |                          |       |           |       |            |       | 517   |       |   |       |      |       |   |       | 517    |       
|                             |                            |                          |       |            |       |            |       |       |       |   |       |       |       |   |       |       
|                             |                            | Net assets held for sale |       | $          | 2,455 |            |       | $     | 3,274 |   |       | $     | 5,314 |   |       | $      | 11,043 | 
|                             |                            |                          |       |            |       |            |       |       |       |   |       |       |       |   |       |       

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HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  (Continued)




|                             |                            |                          |       |            |       |            |        |        |        |   |        |        |        |   |        |        |        | 
|---------------------------- | -------------------------- | ------------------------ | ----- | ---------- | ----- | ---------- | ------ | ------ | ------ | - | ------ | ------ | ------ | - | ------ | ------ | ------ | 
|                             |                            |                          |       | Non-       |       |            |        |       
|                             |                            |                          |       | Oilfield   |       |            |        |       
|                             |                            | Used                     |       | Power      |       |            |        |       
|                             |                            | Equipment                |       | Generation |       | Facilities |        | Total 
|                             |                            |                          |       |            |       |            |        |       
|Current assets               |                            | $                        | 6,820 |            |       | $          | 10,524 |        |        | $ |       |        |        | $ | 17,344 |       
|Property plant and equipment |                            |                          | 924   |            |       |            | 1,386  |        |        |   | 11,671 |        |        |   | 13,981 |       
|                             |                            |                          |       |            |       |            |        |        |        |   |        |        |        |   |        |       
|                             | Total assets held for sale |                          |       | 7,744      |       |            |        | 11,910 |        |   |        | 11,671 |        |   |        | 31,325 |       
|Current liabilities          |                            |                          |      |            |       |            | 1,128  |        |        |   |       |        |        |   | 1,128  |       
|                             |                            |                          |       |            |       |            |        |        |        |   |        |        |        |   |        |       
|                             | Liabilities held for sale  |                          |       |           |       |            |        | 1,128  |        |   |        |       |        |   |        | 1,128  |       
|                             |                            |                          |       |            |       |            |        |        |        |   |        |        |        |   |        |       
|                             |                            | Net assets held for sale |       | $          | 7,744 |            |        | $      | 10,782 |   |        | $      | 11,671 |   |        | $      | 30,197 | 
|                             |                            |                          |       |            |       |            |        |        |        |   |        |        |        |   |        |       



|   |          
|-- | ---------
|4. | Inventory



|                   |  |              |         |      |  |   |         | 
|------------------ |  | ------------ | ------- | ---- |  | - | ------- | 
|                   |  | December 31,
|                   |  |             
|                   |  | 2004         |         | 2003
|                   |  |              |         |     
|Parts and supplies |  | $            | 135,751 |      |  | $ | 114,063 | 
|Work in progress   |  |              | 42,708  |      |  |   | 29,412  | 
|Finished goods     |  |              | 6,339   |      |  |   | 11,822  | 
|                   |  |              |         |      |  |   |         | 
|                   |  | $            | 184,798 |      |  | $ | 155,297 | 
|                   |  |              |         |      |  |   |         | 



|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | 
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 
|During the year ended December 31, 2004, 2003 and 2002 we
    recorded approximately $1.1 million, $1.5 million and
    $13.9 million, respectively, in inventory write-downs and
    reserves for parts inventory which was either obsolete, excess
    or carried at a price above market value. As of
    December 31, 2004 and 2003, we had inventory reserves of
    $11.7 million and $12.7 million, respectively. | 



|   |                                                          
|-- | ---------------------------------------------------------
|5. | Compressor and Production Equipment Fabrication Contracts



|                                        |  |              |          |      |  |   |          |  
|--------------------------------------- |  | ------------ | -------- | ---- |  | - | -------- | -
|                                        |  | December 31,
|                                        |  |             
|                                        |  | 2004         |          | 2003
|                                        |  |              |          |     
|Costs incurred on uncompleted contracts |  | $            | 386,577  |      |  | $ | 366,626  |  
|Estimated earnings                      |  |              | 49,584   |      |  |   | 47,782   |  
|                                        |  |              |          |      |  |   |          |  
|                                        |  |              | 436,161  |      |  |   | 414,408  |  
|Less  billings to date                 |  |              | (386,314 | )    |  |   | (372,707 | )
|                                        |  |              |          |      |  |   |          |  
|                                        |  | $            | 49,847   |      |  | $ | 41,701   |  
|                                        |  |              |          |      |  |   |          |  



|                                                                                |  |              |         |      |  |   |        |  
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |  | ------------ | ------- | ---- |  | - | ------ | -
|                                                                                |  | December 31,
|                                                                                |  |             
|                                                                                |  | 2004         |         | 2003
|                                                                                |  |              |         |     
|Costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings on
    uncompleted contracts |  | $            | 70,103  |      |  | $ | 50,128 |  
|Billings on uncompleted contracts in excess of costs and
    estimated earnings |  |              | (20,256 | )    |  |   | (8,427 | )
|                                                                                |  |              |         |      |  |   |        |  
|                                                                                |  | $            | 49,847  |      |  | $ | 41,701 |  
|                                                                                |  |              |         |      |  |   |        |  

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  (Continued)




|   |                              
|-- | -----------------------------
|6. | Property, plant and equipment



|                                                          |  |              |           |      |  |   |           |  
|--------------------------------------------------------- |  | ------------ | --------- | ---- |  | - | --------- | -
|                                                          |  | December 31,
|                                                          |  |             
|                                                          |  | 2004         |           | 2003
|                                                          |  |              |           |     
|Compression equipment, facilities and other rental assets |  | $            | 2,361,492 |      |  | $ | 2,407,873 |  
|Land and buildings                                        |  |              | 89,573    |      |  |   | 80,142    |  
|Transportation and shop equipment                         |  |              | 78,577    |      |  |   | 77,912    |  
|Other                                                     |  |              | 51,054    |      |  |   | 41,741    |  
|                                                          |  |              |           |      |  |   |           |  
|                                                          |  |              | 2,580,696 |      |  |   | 2,607,668 |  
|                                                          |  |              |           |      |  |   |           |  
|Accumulated depreciation                                  |  |              | (703,655  | )    |  |   | (580,014  | )
|                                                          |  |              |           |      |  |   |           |  
|                                                          |  | $            | 1,877,041 |      |  | $ | 2,027,654 |  
|                                                          |  |              |           |      |  |   |           |  







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|   |                            
|-- | ---------------------------
|7. | Intangible and Other Assets



|                                                      |  |              |        |      |  |   |        | 
|----------------------------------------------------- |  | ------------ | ------ | ---- |  | - | ------ | 
|                                                      |  | December 31,
|                                                      |  |             
|                                                      |  | 2004         |        | 2003
|                                                      |  |              |        |     
|Deferred debt issuance and leasing transactions costs |  | $            | 35,891 |      |  | $ | 40,095 | 
|Notes receivable                                      |  |              | 7,300  |      |  |   | 7,319  | 
|Intangibles                                           |  |              | 6,070  |      |  |   | 7,298  | 
|Other                                                 |  |              | 7,809  |      |  |   | 12,770 | 
|                                                      |  |              |        |      |  |   |        | 
|                                                      |  | $            | 57,070 |      |  | $ | 67,482 | 
|                                                      |  |              |        |      |  |   |        | 







|                                         |  |                         |        |                         |  |          |         |              |  |   |        |  |  |   |         |  
|---------------------------------------- |  | ----------------------- | ------ | ----------------------- |  | -------- | ------- | ------------ |  | - | ------ |  |  | - | ------- | -
|                                         |  | As of December 31, 2004 |        | As of December 31, 2003
|                                         |  |                         |        |                        
|                                         |  | Gross                   |        |                         |  | Gross    |         |             
|                                         |  | carrying                |        | Accumulated             |  | carrying |         | Accumulated 
|                                         |  | amount                  |        | amortization            |  | amount   |         | amortization
|                                         |  |                         |        |                         |  |          |         |             
|                                         |  | (in thousands)         
|Deferred debt issuance transaction costs |  | $                       | 52,674 |                         |  | $        | (16,783 | )            |  | $ | 52,633 |  |  | $ | (12,538 | )
|Marketing related (3-20 yr life)         |  |                         | 4,581  |                         |  |          | (2,435  | )            |  |   | 4,419  |  |  |   | (1,482  | )
|Customer related (20 yr life)            |  |                         | 3,684  |                         |  |          | (889    | )            |  |   | 3,390  |  |  |   | (490    | )
|Technology based (5 yr life)             |  |                         | 1,529  |                         |  |          | (567    | )            |  |   | 1,463  |  |  |   | (206    | )
|Contract based (17 yr life)              |  |                         | 650    |                         |  |          | (483    | )            |  |   | 650    |  |  |   | (446    | )
|                                         |  |                         |        |                         |  |          |         |              |  |   |        |  |  |   |         |  
|                                         |  | $                       | 63,118 |                         |  | $        | (21,157 | )            |  | $ | 62,555 |  |  | $ | (15,162 | )
|                                         |  |                         |        |                         |  |          |         |              |  |   |        |  |  |   |         |  





|           |      |   |        |       | 
|---------- | ---- | - | ------ | ----- | 
|           | 2005 |   | $      | 9,754 | 
|           | 2006 |   |        | 5,923 | 
|           | 2007 |   |        | 5,896 | 
|           | 2008 |   |        | 4,413 | 
|           | 2009 |   |        | 3,171 | 
|Thereafter |      |   | 12,804 |      
|           |      |   |        |      
|           |      | $ | 41,961 |      
|           |      |   |        |      



|   |                                           
|-- | ------------------------------------------
|8. | Investments in Non-Consolidated Affiliates



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|                        |  |           |       |          |  |                  |  |                           
|----------------------- |  | --------- | ----- | -------- |  | ---------------- |  | --------------------------
|                        |  | Ownership |       |          |  |                 
|                        |  | Interest  |       | Location |  | Type of Business
|                        |  |           |       |          |  |                 
|PIGAP II                |  |           | 30.0% |          |  | Venezuela        |  | Gas Compression Plant     
|El Furrial              |  |           | 33.3% |          |  | Venezuela        |  | Gas Compression Plant     
|Simco/Harwat Consortium |  |           | 35.5% |          |  | Venezuela        |  | Gas Compression Plant     
|CrystaTech, Inc.        |  |           | 46.0% |          |  | United States    |  | Process Technology Company



|                                    |  |              |         |      |  |   |         | 
|----------------------------------- |  | ------------ | ------- | ---- |  | - | ------- | 
|                                    |  | December 31,
|                                    |  |             
|                                    |  | 2004         |         | 2003
|                                    |  |              |         |     
|Current assets                      |  | $            | 148,938 |      |  | $ | 176,925 | 
|Non-current assets                  |  |              | 528,669 |      |  |   | 585,335 | 
|Current liabilities, excluding debt |  |              | 35,407  |      |  |   | 43,753  | 
|Debt payable                        |  |              | 349,030 |      |  |   | 409,157 | 
|Other non-current liabilities       |  |              | 41,053  |      |  |   | 36,114  | 
|Owners equity                      |  |              | 252,117 |      |  |   | 273,236 | 



|                 |  |                          |         |      |  |      |         |  |  |   |         | 
|---------------- |  | ------------------------ | ------- | ---- |  | ---- | ------- |  |  | - | ------- | 
|                 |  | Years Ended December 31,
|                 |  |                         
|                 |  | 2004                     |         | 2003 |  | 2002
|                 |  |                          |         |      |  |     
|Revenues         |  | $                        | 186,457 |      |  | $    | 277,575 |  |  | $ | 288,268 | 
|Operating income |  |                          | 127,698 |      |  |      | 136,998 |  |  |   | 85,907  | 
|Net income       |  |                          | 57,775  |      |  |      | 60,526  |  |  |   | 72,031  | 







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|   |         
|-- | --------
|9. | Goodwill



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|                                     |       |              |        |                 |  |                |        |            |   |              |       |       |  |   |   |   |  |   |        |         | 
|------------------------------------ | ----- | ------------ | ------ | --------------- |  | -------------- | ------ | ---------- | - | ------------ | ----- | ----- |  | - | - | - |  | - | ------ | ------- | 
|                                     |       |              |        |                 |  | Purchase       |        |            |   |             
|                                     |       |              |        |                 |  | Adjustment     |        |            |   |             
|                                     |       | December 31, |        |                 |  | and Other      |        | Goodwill   |   | December 31,
|                                     |       | 2003         |        | Dispositions(1) |  | Adjustments(2) |        | Impairment |   | 2004        
|                                     |       |              |        |                 |  |                |        |            |   |             
|U.S. rentals                         |       | $            | 94,904 |                 |  | $              |       |            |   | $            | 4,859 |       |  | $ |  |   |  | $ | 99,763 |        
|International rentals                |       |              | 34,282 |                 |  |                | (2,145 | )          |   |              | 2,948 |       |  |   |  |   |  |   | 35,085 |        
|Parts, service and used equipment    |       |              | 32,870 |                 |  |                |       |            |   |              | 206   |       |  |   |  |   |  |   | 33,076 |        
|Compressor and accessory fabrication |       |              | 14,573 |                 |  |                |       |            |   |              |      |       |  |   |  |   |  |   | 14,573 |        
|                                     |       |              |        |                 |  |                |        |            |   |              |       |       |  |   |   |   |  |   |        |        
|                                     | Total |              | $      | 176,629         |  |                | $      | (2,145     | ) |              | $     | 8,013 |  |   | $ |  |  |   | $      | 182,497 | 
|                                     |       |              |        |                 |  |                |        |            |   |              |       |       |  |   |   |   |  |   |        |        






|    |                                                                                       
|--- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|(1) | Relates to sale of the compression rental assets of our Canadian
    subsidiary.      
|   
|(2) | Relates primarily to purchase price adjustments for taxes
    related to acquisitions.

|                                     |       |              |        |              |  |             |        |            |  |              |        |        |  |   |         |         |   |   |        |         | 
|------------------------------------ | ----- | ------------ | ------ | ------------ |  | ----------- | ------ | ---------- |  | ------------ | ------ | ------ |  | - | ------- | ------- | - | - | ------ | ------- | 
|                                     |       |              |        |              |  | Purchase    |        |            |  |             
|                                     |       |              |        |              |  | Adjustment  |        |            |  |             
|                                     |       | December 31, |        |              |  | and Other   |        | Goodwill   |  | December 31,
|                                     |       | 2002         |        | Acquisitions |  | Adjustments |        | Impairment |  | 2003        
|                                     |       |              |        |              |  |             |        |            |  |             
|U.S. rentals                         |       | $            | 94,655 |              |  | $           |       |            |  | $            | 249    |        |  | $ |        |         |   | $ | 94,904 |        
|International rentals                |       |              | 34,659 |              |  |             |       |            |  |              | (377   | )      |  |   |        |         |   |   | 34,282 |        
|Parts, service and used equipment    |       |              | 32,691 |              |  |             | 558    |            |  |              | (379   | )      |  |   |        |         |   |   | 32,870 |        
|Compressor and accessory fabrication |       |              | 14,573 |              |  |             |       |            |  |              |       |        |  |   |        |         |   |   | 14,573 |        
|Production and processing equipment  |       |              | 3,941  |              |  |             | 15,000 |            |  |              | 16,525 |        |  |   | (35,466 | )       |   |   |       |        
|                                     |       |              |        |              |  |             |        |            |  |              |        |        |  |   |         |         |   |   |        |        
|                                     | Total |              | $      | 180,519      |  |             | $      | 15,558     |  |              | $      | 16,018 |  |   | $       | (35,466 | ) |   | $      | 176,629 | 
|                                     |       |              |        |              |  |             |        |            |  |              |        |        |  |   |         |         |   |   |        |        






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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED
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|    |                    
|--- | -------------------
|10. | Accrued Liabilities



|                                                      |  |              |         |      |  |   |         | 
|----------------------------------------------------- |  | ------------ | ------- | ---- |  | - | ------- | 
|                                                      |  | December 31,
|                                                      |  |             
|                                                      |  | 2004         |         | 2003
|                                                      |  |              |         |     
|Accrued salaries, bonuses and other employee benefits |  | $            | 30,323  |      |  | $ | 30,179  | 
|Accrued income and other taxes                        |  |              | 29,768  |      |  |   | 15,948  | 
|Current portion of interest rate swaps                |  |              | 1,061   |      |  |   | 11,703  | 
|Securities settlement accrual                         |  |              | 229     |      |  |   | 32,692  | 
|Accrued interest                                      |  |              | 25,386  |      |  |   | 23,228  | 
|Accrued other                                         |  |              | 31,662  |      |  |   | 41,691  | 
|                                                      |  |              |         |      |  |   |         | 
|                                                      |  | $            | 118,429 |      |  | $ | 155,441 | 
|                                                      |  |              |         |      |  |   |         | 





|    |     
|--- | ----
|11. | Debt



|                                   |  |              |       |      |  |   |        | 
|---------------------------------- |  | ------------ | ----- | ---- |  | - | ------ | 
|                                   |  | December 31,
|                                   |  |             
|                                   |  | 2004         |       | 2003
|                                   |  |              |       |     
|Belleli factored receivables      |  | $            | 1,011 |      |  | $ | 13,261 | 
|Belleli revolving credit facility |  |              | 4,095 |      |  |   | 16,141 | 
|Other, interest at 5.0%, due 2004  |  |              |      |      |  |   | 3,117  | 
|                                   |  |              |       |      |  |   |        | 
|Short-term debt                    |  | $            | 5,106 |      |  | $ | 32,519 | 
|                                   |  |              |       |      |  |   |        | 



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|                                                                                                                |  |              |           |      |  |   |           |  
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |  | ------------ | --------- | ---- |  | - | --------- | -
|                                                                                                                |  | December 31,
|                                                                                                                |  |             
|                                                                                                                |  | 2004         |           | 2003
|                                                                                                                |  |              |           |     
|Bank credit facility due December 2006                                                                          |  | $            | 7,000     |      |  | $ | 27,000    |  
|4.75% convertible senior notes due 2008*                                                                        |  |              | 192,000   |      |  |   | 192,000   |  
|4.75% convertible senior notes due 2014*                                                                        |  |              | 143,750   |      |  |   | 143,750   |  
|8.625% senior notes due 2010**                                                                                  |  |              | 200,000   |      |  |   | 200,000   |  
|9.0% senior notes due 2014**                                                                                    |  |              | 200,000   |      |  |   |          |  
|2000A equipment lease notes, interest at 4.2%, due March 2005                                                   |  |              |          |      |  |   | 193,600   |  
|2000B equipment lease notes, interest at 5.2%, due October 2005                                                 |  |              | 55,861    |      |  |   | 167,411   |  
|2001A equipment lease notes, interest at 8.5%, due September 2008                                               |  |              | 300,000   |      |  |   | 300,000   |  
|2001B equipment lease notes, interest at 8.8%, due September 2011                                               |  |              | 250,000   |      |  |   | 250,000   |  
|Zero coupon subordinated notes, interest at 11%, due March 2007*                                                |  |              | 206,467   |      |  |   | 185,501   |  
|7.25% convertible subordinated notes due 2029*                                                                  |  |              | 86,250    |      |  |   | 86,250    |  
|Real estate mortgage, collateralized by certain land and
    buildings, payable through September 2004          |  |              |          |      |  |   | 2,917     |  
|Fair value adjustment fixed to floating interest rate swaps                                                    |  |              | (5,996    | )    |  |   |          |  
|Other, interest at various rates, collateralized by equipment
    and other assets, net of unamortized discount |  |              | 3,178     |      |  |   | 1,875     |  
|                                                                                                                |  |              |           |      |  |   |           |  
|                                                                                                                |  |              | 1,638,510 |      |  |   | 1,750,304 |  
|Less current maturities                                                                                        |  |              | (1,430    | )    |  |   | (3,511    | )
|                                                                                                                |  |              |           |      |  |   |           |  
|Long-term debt                                                                                                  |  | $            | 1,637,080 |      |  | $ | 1,746,793 |  
|                                                                                                                |  |              |           |      |  |   |           |  






| |   |                                              
| | - | ---------------------------------------------
| | * | Securities issued by Hanover (parent company)



| |    |                                                                          
| | -- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | ** | Securities issued by Hanover (parent company) and guaranteed by
    HCLP.



|           |  |              |           | 
|---------- |  | ------------ | --------- | 
|           |  | December 31,
|           |  | 2004        
|           |  |             
|2005       |  | $            | 57,291    | 
|2006       |  |              | 8,304     | 
|2007       |  |              | 206,689   | 
|2008       |  |              | 492,045   | 
|2009       |  |              | 49        | 
|Thereafter |  |              | 874,132   | 
|           |  |              |           | 
|           |  | $            | 1,638,510 | 
|           |  |              |           | 



| |             
| | ------------
| | Senior Notes





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| |                     
| | --------------------
| | Bank Credit Facility













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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  (Continued)






| |                               
| | ------------------------------
| | Zero Coupon Subordinated Notes





|                                                           |  |                                                  |  |                                                                        
|---------------------------------------------------------- |  | ------------------------------------------------ |  | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
|Primary Financial Term                                     |  | Restructured Note                                |  | Original Note                                                          
|                                                           |  |                                                  |  |                                                                        
|Principal Outstanding at March 31, 2003:                   |  | $171 million                                     |  | $171 million                                                           
|                                                          
|Maturity:                                                  |  | March 31, 2007                                   |  | December 31, 2005                                                      
|                                                          
|Interest Rate:                                             |  | Zero coupon accreting at 11.0% fixed             |  | 13.5%, 14.5% beginning March 1, 2004,                                  
|                                                           |  |                                                  |  | 15.5% beginning March 1, 2005                                          
|                                                          
|Schlumberger First Call Rights on Hanover Equity Issuance: |  | None                                             |  | Schlumberger had first call on any Hanover equity offering
    proceeds
|                                                          
|Call Provision:                                            |  | Hanover cannot call the Note prior to March 2006 |  | Callable at any time                                                   



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| |                         
| | ------------------------
| | Convertible Senior Notes







| |                               
| | ------------------------------
| | Convertible Subordinated Notes



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|    |                                                      
|--- | -----------------------------------------------------
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|             |  |           |         |                  |  |            |                |  |  |   |        | 
|------------ |  | --------- | ------- | ---------------- |  | ---------- | -------------- |  |  | - | ------ | 
|             |  | Residual  |         |                  |  | Minority  
|             |  | Value     |         | Lease            |  | Interest  
|Lease        |  | Guarantee |         | Termination Date |  | Obligation
|             |  |           |         |                  |  |           
|October 2000 |  | $         | 47,482  |                  |  |            | October 2005   |  |  | $ | 1,728  | 
|August 2001  |  |           | 232,000 |                  |  |            | September 2008 |  |  |   | 9,300  | 
|August 2001  |  |           | 175,000 |                  |  |            | September 2011 |  |  |   | 7,750  | 
|             |  |           |         |                  |  |            |                |  |  |   |        | 
|             |  | $         | 454,482 |                  |  |            |                |  |  | $ | 18,778 | 
|             |  |           |         |                  |  |            |                |  |  |   |        | 







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|    |             
|--- | ------------
|13. | Income Taxes



|              |  |                          |         |      |  |      |          |   |  |   |          |  
|------------- |  | ------------------------ | ------- | ---- |  | ---- | -------- | - |  | - | -------- | -
|              |  | Years Ended December 31,
|              |  |                         
|              |  | 2004                     |         | 2003 |  | 2002
|              |  |                          |         |      |  |     
|U.S.          |  | $                        | (69,475 | )    |  | $    | (115,937 | ) |  | $ | (115,733 | )
|International |  |                          | 40,151  |      |  |      | 2,078    |   |  |   | 18,408   |  
|              |  |                          |         |      |  |      |          |   |  |   |          |  
|              |  | $                        | (29,324 | )    |  | $    | (113,859 | ) |  | $ | (97,325  | )
|              |  |                          |         |      |  |      |          |   |  |   |          |  



|                                                |               |                          |        |        |        |      |       |         |        |   |         |         |         |  
|----------------------------------------------- | ------------- | ------------------------ | ------ | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ------- | ------ | - | ------- | ------- | ------- | -
|                                                |               | Years Ended December 31,
|                                                |               |                         
|                                                |               | 2004                     |        | 2003   |        | 2002
|                                                |               |                          |        |        |        |     
|Current tax provision (benefit):                |               |                          |        |        |        |      |       |         |        |   |         |        
|                                                | Federal       |                          | $      | 168    |        |      | $     |        |        |   | $       | (9,551  | )      
|                                                | State         |                          |        | (27    | )      |      |       | 245     |        |   |         | (227    | )      
|                                                | International |                          |        | 12,999 |        |      |       | 13,171  |        |   |         | 11,027  |        
|                                                |               |                          |        |        |        |      |       |         |        |   |         |        
|                                                |               | Total current            |        |        | 13,140 |      |       |         | 13,416 |   |         |         | 1,249   |  
|                                                |               |                          |        |        |        |      |       |         |        |   |         |        
|Deferred tax provision (benefit):               |               |                          |        |        |        |      |       |         |        |   |         |        
|                                                | Federal       |                          |        | (4,380 | )      |      |       | (18,334 | )      |   |         | (10,738 | )      
|                                                | State         |                          |        | 1,959  |        |      |       |        |        |   |         |         |        
|                                                | International |                          |        | 14,048 |        |      |       | 8,547   |        |   |         | (7,625  | )      
|                                                |               |                          |        |        |        |      |       |         |        |   |         |        
|                                                |               | Total deferred           |        |        | 11,627 |      |       |         | (9,787 | ) |         |         | (18,363 | )
|                                                |               |                          |        |        |        |      |       |         |        |   |         |        
|Total provision for (benefit from) income taxes |               | $                        | 24,767 |        |        | $    | 3,629 |         |        | $ | (17,114 | )      
|                                                |               |                          |        |        |        |      |       |         |        |   |         |        

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|                                                                                                        |  |                          |         |      |  |      |         |   |  |   |         |  
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |  | ------------------------ | ------- | ---- |  | ---- | ------- | - |  | - | ------- | -
|                                                                                                        |  | Years Ended December 31,
|                                                                                                        |  |                         
|                                                                                                        |  | 2004                     |         | 2003 |  | 2002
|                                                                                                        |  |                          |         |      |  |     
|Federal income tax at statutory rate                                                                    |  | $                        | (10,263 | )    |  | $    | (39,851 | ) |  | $ | (34,064 | )
|State income taxes, net of federal benefit                                                              |  |                          | 1,256   |      |  |      | 159     |   |  |   | (148    | )
|International effective rate/ U.S. rate differential
    (including international valuation allowances) |  |                          | 6,783   |      |  |      | 13,975  |   |  |   | (5,841  | )
|U.S. impact of international operations, net of federal
    benefit                                     |  |                          | 14,877  |      |  |      | 5,270   |   |  |   | 7,894   |  
|Nondeductible goodwill                                                                                  |  |                          |        |      |  |      |        |   |  |   | 10,117  |  
|U.S. valuation allowances                                                                               |  |                          | 10,880  |      |  |      | 25,746  |   |  |   | 2,609   |  
|Other, net                                                                                              |  |                          | 1,234   |      |  |      | (1,670  | ) |  |   | 2,319   |  
|                                                                                                        |  |                          |         |      |  |      |         |   |  |   |         |  
|                                                                                                        |  | $                        | 24,767  |      |  | $    | 3,629   |   |  | $ | (17,114 | )
|                                                                                                        |  |                          |         |      |  |      |         |   |  |   |         |  



|                               |                                             |              |          |          |   |   |          |          |  
|------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------- | ------------ | -------- | -------- | - | - | -------- | -------- | -
|                               |                                             | December 31,
|                               |                                             |             
|                               |                                             | 2004         |          | 2003    
|                               |                                             |              |          |         
|Deferred tax assets:           |                                             |              |          |          |   |   |          |         
|                               | Net operating losses carryforward           |              | $        | 303,754  |   |   | $        | 245,406  |  
|                               | Investment in joint ventures                |              |          | 737      |   |   |          | 8,955    |  
|                               | Inventory                                   |              |          | 5,048    |   |   |          | 16,623   |  
|                               | Alternative minimum tax credit carryforward |              |          | 5,337    |   |   |          | 5,407    |  
|                               | Derivative instruments                      |              |          | 722      |   |   |          | 5,279    |  
|                               | Accrued liabilities                         |              |          | 3,809    |   |   |          | 10,858   |  
|                               | Intangibles                                 |              |          | 11,209   |   |   |          | 14,274   |  
|                               | Capital loss carryforward                   |              |          | 10,293   |   |   |          | 5,852    |  
|                               | Other                                       |              |          | 22,057   |   |   |          | 7,364    |  
|                               |                                             |              |          |          |   |   |          |         
|Gross deferred tax assets      |                                             |              | 362,966  |          |   |   | 320,018  |         
|                               | Valuation allowance                         |              |          | (65,441  | ) |   |          | (55,015  | )
|                               |                                             |              |          |          |   |   |          |         
|                               |                                             |              | 297,525  |          |   |   | 265,003  |         
|                               |                                             |              |          |          |   |   |          |         
|Deferred tax liabilities:      |                                             |              |          |          |   |   |          |         
|                               | Property, plant and equipment               |              |          | (332,294 | ) |   |          | (291,249 | )
|                               | Other                                       |              |          | (6,135   | ) |   |          | (2,087   | )
|                               |                                             |              |          |          |   |   |          |         
|Gross deferred tax liabilities |                                             |              | (338,429 | )        |   |   | (293,336 | )       
|                               |                                             |              |          |          |   |   |          |         
|                               |                                             | $            | (40,904  | )        |   | $ | (28,333  | )       
|                               |                                             |              |          |          |   |   |          |         





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|    |                           
|--- | --------------------------
|14. | Accounting for Derivatives







|                         |  |               |                   |                  |  |                 |       |                   |  |   |         |  |  |   |        |  
|------------------------ |  | ------------- | ----------------- | ---------------- |  | --------------- | ----- | ----------------- |  | - | ------- |  |  | - | ------ | -
|                         |  |               |                   |                  |  |                 |       | Fair Value of    
|                         |  |               |                   | Fixed Rate to be |  |                 |       | Swap at          
|Floating Rate to be Paid |  | Maturity Date |                   | Received         |  | Notional Amount |       | December 31, 2004
|                         |  |               |                   |                  |  |                 |       |                  
|Six Month LIBOR +4.72%   |  |               | December 15, 2010 |                  |  |                 | 8.625 | %                 |  | $ | 100,000 |  |  | $ | (3,254 | )
|Six Month LIBOR +4.64%   |  |               | December 15, 2010 |                  |  |                 | 8.625 | %                 |  | $ | 100,000 |  |  | $ | (2,742 | )



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|      |              |               |  |                       |                  |                 |  |                   |         |  |  |  |          |  |  |   |      |  
|----- | ------------ | ------------- |  | --------------------- | ---------------- | --------------- |  | ----------------- | ------- |  |  |  | -------- |  |  | - | ---- | -
|      |              |               |  |                       |                  |                 |  | Fair Value of    
|      |              |               |  |                       |                  |                 |  | Swap at          
|Lease |              | Maturity Date |  | Fixed Rate to be Paid |                  | Notional Amount |  | December 31, 2004
|      |              |               |  |                       |                  |                 |  |                  
|      | March 2000   |               |  |                       | March 11, 2005   |                 |  |                   | 5.2550% |  |  |  | $100,000 |  |  | $ | (527 | )
|      | August 2000  |               |  |                       | March 11, 2005   |                 |  |                   | 5.2725% |  |  |  | $100,000 |  |  | $ | (534 | )
|      | October 2000 |               |  |                       | October 26, 2005 |                 |  |                   | 5.3975% |  |  |  | $100,000 |  |  | $ |     |  











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|    |                            
|--- | ---------------------------
|15. | Common Stockholders Equity



| |                                             
| | --------------------------------------------
| | Notes Receivable  Employee
    Stockholders





| |      
| | -----
| | Other









|    |              
|--- | -------------
|16. | Stock Options





|                                       |                    |        |           |                  |   |   |      |       | 
|-------------------------------------- | ------------------ | ------ | --------- | ---------------- | - | - | ---- | ----- | 
|                                       |                    |        |           | Weighted average
|                                       |                    | Shares |           | price per share 
|                                       |                    |        |           |                 
|Options outstanding, December 31, 2001 |                    |        | 7,664,475 |                  |   | $ | 6.62 |      
|                                       | Options granted(1) |        |           | 1,497,706        |   |   |      | 13.35 | 
|                                       | Options canceled   |        |           | (261,323         | ) |   |      | 10.29 | 
|                                       | Options exercised  |        |           | (1,422,850       | ) |   |      | 4.69  | 
|                                       |                    |        |           |                  |   |   |      |      
|Options outstanding, December 31, 2002 |                    |        | 7,478,008 |                  |   |   | 8.21 |      
|                                       | Options granted(1) |        |           | 539,285          |   |   |      | 11.41 | 
|                                       | Options canceled   |        |           | (652,963         | ) |   |      | 11.06 | 
|                                       | Options exercised  |        |           | (1,432,636       | ) |   |      | 4.68  | 
|                                       |                    |        |           |                  |   |   |      |      
|Options outstanding, December 31, 2003 |                    |        | 5,931,694 |                  |   |   | 9.07 |      
|                                       | Options granted(1) |        |           | 77,474           |   |   |      | 11.47 | 
|                                       | Options canceled   |        |           | (624,656         | ) |   |      | 13.19 | 
|                                       | Options exercised  |        |           | (1,140,073       | ) |   |      | 8.38  | 
|                                       |                    |        |           |                  |   |   |      |      
|Options outstanding, December 31, 2004 |                    |        | 4,244,439 |                  |   |   | 8.67 |      
|                                       |                    |        |           |                  |   |   |      |      






|    |                                                          
|--- | ---------------------------------------------------------
|(1) | Option price equal to fair market value on date of grant.

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|                         |  |                     |           |                     |  |          |     |        |  |          |       |  |  |  |           |  |  |   |       | 
|------------------------ |  | ------------------- | --------- | ------------------- |  | -------- | --- | ------ |  | -------- | ----- |  |  |  | --------- |  |  | - | ----- | 
|                         |  | Options Outstanding |           | Options Exercisable
|                         |  |                     |           |                    
|                         |  |                     |           | Weighted            |  |          |     |       
|                         |  |                     |           | Average             |  | Weighted |     |        |  | Weighted
|                         |  |                     |           | Remaining           |  | Average  |     |        |  | Average 
|                         |  |                     |           | Life in             |  | Exercise |     |        |  | Exercise
|Range of exercise prices |  | Shares              |           | Years               |  | Price    |     | Shares |  | Price   
|                         |  |                     |           |                     |  |          |     |        |  |         
|$0.00-2.50               |  |                     | 1,377,880 |                     |  |          | 0.6 |        |  | $        | 2.27  |  |  |  | 1,377,880 |  |  | $ | 2.27  | 
|$2.51-5.00               |  |                     | 16,659    |                     |  |          | 0.7 |        |  |          | 4.75  |  |  |  | 16,659    |  |  |   | 4.75  | 
|$5.01-7.50               |  |                     | 47,084    |                     |  |          | 1.3 |        |  |          | 5.70  |  |  |  | 47,084    |  |  |   | 5.70  | 
|$7.51-10.00              |  |                     | 1,329,227 |                     |  |          | 3.7 |        |  |          | 9.75  |  |  |  | 1,227,599 |  |  |   | 9.75  | 
|$10.01-12.50             |  |                     | 634,824   |                     |  |          | 7.4 |        |  |          | 11.61 |  |  |  | 275,354   |  |  |   | 11.97 | 
|$12.51-15.00             |  |                     | 677,913   |                     |  |          | 6.8 |        |  |          | 14.46 |  |  |  | 334,625   |  |  |   | 14.47 | 
|$15.01-17.50             |  |                     | 75,000    |                     |  |          | 7.2 |        |  |          | 17.25 |  |  |  | 50,000    |  |  |   | 17.25 | 
|$17.51-20.00             |  |                     | 21,000    |                     |  |          | 7.1 |        |  |          | 18.95 |  |  |  | 12,067    |  |  |   | 18.91 | 
|$20.01-22.50             |  |                     | 23,152    |                     |  |          | 0.2 |        |  |          | 20.09 |  |  |  | 23,152    |  |  |   | 20.09 | 
|$22.51-25.00             |  |                     | 41,700    |                     |  |          | 6.4 |        |  |          | 25.00 |  |  |  | 25,980    |  |  |   | 25.00 | 
|                         |  |                     |           |                     |  |          |     |        |  |          |       |  |  |  |           |  |  |   |       | 
|                         |  |                     | 4,244,439 |                     |  |          |     |        |  |          |       |  |  |  | 3,390,400 |  |  |   |       | 
|                         |  |                     |           |                     |  |          |     |        |  |          |       |  |  |  |           |  |  |   |       | 





|               |  |      |           |      |  |      |         |  |  |  |         | 
|-------------- |  | ---- | --------- | ---- |  | ---- | ------- |  |  |  | ------- | 
|               |  | 2004 |           | 2003 |  | 2002
|               |  |      |           |      |  |     
|Expected life  |  |      | 7.5 years |      |  |      | 6 years |  |  |  | 6 years | 
|Interest rate  |  |      | 4.17%     |      |  |      | 3.16%   |  |  |  | 4.4%    | 
|Volatility     |  |      | 38.0%     |      |  |      | 40.3%   |  |  |  | 39.3%   | 
|Dividend yield |  |      | 0%        |      |  |      | 0%      |  |  |  | 0%      | 





|    |              
|--- | -------------
|17. | Benefit Plans





|    |                                             
|--- | --------------------------------------------
|18. | Related Party and Certain Other Transactions



| |                               
| | ------------------------------
| | Transactions with GKH Entities



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| |                                        
| | ---------------------------------------
| | Transactions with Schlumberger Entities





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| |                                 
| | --------------------------------
| | Other Related Party Transactions







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| |                                            
| | -------------------------------------------
| | Transactions with Former Executive Officers

Michael J. McGhan.




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|     |  |                  |           |                  |  |                  |           |  |  |  |       | 
|---- |  | ---------------- | --------- | ---------------- |  | ---------------- | --------- |  |  |  | ----- | 
|     |  |                  |           | Largest Note     |  |                 
|     |  | Aggregate Note   |           | Principal Amount |  |                 
|     |  | Principal Amount |           | Outstanding      |  | Weighted Average
|     |  | Outstanding at   |           | during each      |  | Rate of Interest
|Year |  | Period End       |           | Period           |  | at Period End   
|     |  |                  |           |                  |  |                 
|2003 |  | $                |          |                  |  | $                | 2,200,000 |  |  |  | 4.88% | 
|2002 |  | $                | 2,200,000 |                  |  | $                | 2,600,000 |  |  |  | 4.88% | 







Charles D. Erwin.


|     |  |                  |   |                  |  |                  |         |  |  |  |     |  
|---- |  | ---------------- | - | ---------------- |  | ---------------- | ------- |  |  |  | --- | -
|     |  |                  |   | Largest Note     |  |                 
|     |  | Aggregate Note   |   | Principal Amount |  |                 
|     |  | Principal Amount |   | Outstanding      |  | Weighted Average
|     |  | Outstanding at   |   | during each      |  | Rate of Interest
|Year |  | Period End       |   | Period           |  | at Period End   
|     |  |                  |   |                  |  |                 
|2002 |  | $                |  |                  |  | $                | 631,800 |  |  |  | 4.3 | %



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Joe C. Bradford.


|     |  |             |         |             |  |           |         |  |  |  |      | 
|---- |  | ----------- | ------- | ----------- |  | --------- | ------- |  |  |  | ---- | 
|     |  | Aggregate   |         | Largest     |  |          
|     |  | Note        |         | Note        |  | Weighted 
|     |  | Principal   |         | Principal   |  | Average  
|     |  | Amount      |         | Amount      |  | Rate of  
|     |  | Outstanding |         | Outstanding |  | Interest 
|     |  | at Period   |         | during each |  | at Period
|Year |  | End         |         | Period      |  | End      
|     |  |             |         |             |  |          
|2004 |  | $           | 535,473 |             |  | $         | 535,473 |  |  |  | 7.3% | 
|2003 |  | $           | 535,473 |             |  | $         | 535,473 |  |  |  | 4.0% | 
|2002 |  | $           | 535,473 |             |  | $         | 579,845 |  |  |  | 4.3% | 



|    |                              
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|19. | Commitments and Contingencies



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|                                             |                                                     |      |  |                   |  |   |         |        | 
|-------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | ---- |  | ----------------- |  | - | ------- | ------ | 
|                                             |                                                     |      |  | Maximum Potential
|                                             |                                                     |      |  | Undiscounted     
|                                             |                                                     |      |  | Payments as of   
|                                             |                                                     | Term |  | December 31, 2004
|                                             |                                                     |      |  |                  
|Indebtedness of non-consolidated affiliates: |                                                     |      |  |                   |  |   |         |       
|                                             | Simco/Harwat Consortium(1)                          |      |  | 2005              |  |   | $       | 12,257 | 
|                                             | El Furrial(1)                                       |      |  | 2013              |  |   |         | 36,018 | 
|Other:                                       |                                                     |      |  |                   |  |   |         |       
|                                             | Performance guarantees through letters of credit(2) |      |  | 2005-2007         |  |   |         | 83,706 | 
|                                             | Standby letters of credit                           |      |  | 2005-2006         |  |   |         | 16,558 | 
|                                             | Commercial letters of credit                        |      |  | 2005              |  |   |         | 3,777  | 
|                                             | Bid bonds and performance bonds(2)                  |      |  | 2005-2009         |  |   |         | 96,962 | 
|                                             |                                                     |      |  |                   |  |   |         |       
|                                             |                                                     |      |  |                   |  | $ | 249,278 |       
|                                             |                                                     |      |  |                   |  |   |         |       






|    |                                                                                                                                                                                                        
|--- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|(1) | We have guaranteed the amount included above, which is a
    percentage of the total debt of this non-consolidated affiliate
    equal to our ownership percentage in such affiliate. (See
    Note 8.)
|   
|(2) | We have issued guarantees to third parties to ensure performance
    of our obligations, some of which may be fulfilled by third
    parties.                                                          









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|    |                                   
|--- | ----------------------------------
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|                                          |  |   |         |  
|----------------------------------------- |  | - | ------- | -
|Cash                                      |  | $ | 30,050  |  
|Estimated fair value of note to be issued |  |   | 3,633   |  
|Common stock to be issued by Hanover      |  |   | 29,800  |  
|Legal fees and administrative costs       |  |   | 6,178   |  
|                                          |  |   |         |  
|Total                                     |  |   | 69,661  |  
|Less: insurance recoveries                |  |   | (26,670 | )
|                                          |  |   |         |  
|Net litigation settlement                 |  | $ | 42,991  |  
|                                          |  |   |         |  



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|    |              
|--- | -------------
|21. | Other Expense







|    |                                            
|--- | -------------------------------------------
|22. | Restructuring, Impairment and Other Charges



|                                                                             |       |   |        |      |  
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----- | - | ------ | ---- | -
|Securities-related litigation settlement                                     |       | $ | (4,163 | )   
|Write-off of deferred financing costs (in Depreciation and
    amortization) |       |   | 1,686  |     
|Cancellation of interest rate swap (in Interest expense)                     |       |   | 2,028  |     
|                                                                             |       |   |        |     
|                                                                             | Total |   | $      | (449 | )
|                                                                             |       |   |        |     



|                                                                             |       |   |         |         | 
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----- | - | ------- | ------- | 
|Rental fleet asset impairment (in Depreciation and amortization)             |       | $ | 14,334  |        
|Cumulative effect of accounting change  FIN 46                              |       |   | 133,707 |        
|Securities-related litigation settlement                                     |       |   | 42,991  |        
|Belleli goodwill impairment (in Goodwill impairment)                         |       |   | 35,466  |        
|Write-off of deferred financing costs (in Depreciation and
    amortization) |       |   | 2,461   |        
|Loss on sale/write-down of discontinued operations                           |       |   | 21,617  |        
|                                                                             |       |   |         |        
|                                                                             | Total |   | $       | 250,576 | 
|                                                                             |       |   |         |        

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|                                                                                                      |       |   |        |         | 
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----- | - | ------ | ------- | 
|Inventory reserves  (in Parts and service and used
    equipment expense)                            |       | $ | 6,800  |        
|Severance and other charges (in Selling, general and
    administrative)                              |       |   | 6,160  |        
|Write off of idle equipment and assets to be sold or abandoned
    (in Depreciation and amortization) |       |   | 34,485 |        
|Goodwill impairments                                                                                  |       |   | 52,103 |        
|Non-consolidated affiliate write-downs/charges (in Other expense)                                     |       |   | 15,950 |        
|Write-down of discontinued operations                                                                 |       |   | 58,282 |        
|Note receivable reserves (in Other expense)                                                           |       |   | 8,454  |        
|Write-off of abandoned purchase option (in Other expense)                                             |       |   | 500    |        
|                                                                                                      |       |   |        |        
|                                                                                                      | Total |   | $      | 182,734 | 
|                                                                                                      |       |   |        |        





|    |                              
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Accounting
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|    |                                             
|--- | --------------------------------------------
|24. | Industry Segments and Geographic Information







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|      |                                  |                           |   |               |  |                |   |             |  |             |   |         |  |              |   |         |  |  |   |         |  |  |   |         |  |  |   |           | 
|----- | -------------------------------- | ------------------------- | - | ------------- |  | -------------- | - | ----------- |  | ----------- | - | ------- |  | ------------ | - | ------- |  |  | - | ------- |  |  | - | ------- |  |  | - | --------- | 
|      |                                  |                           |   |               |  |                |   |             |  | Production  |   |         |  |             
|      |                                  |                           |   |               |  |                |   | Compressor  |  | and         |   |         |  |             
|      |                                  |                           |   |               |  | Parts, service |   | and         |  | processing  |   |         |  |             
|      |                                  |                           |   | International |  | and used       |   | accessory   |  | equipment   |   |         |  |             
|      |                                  | U.S. rentals              |   | rentals       |  | equipment      |   | fabrication |  | fabrication |   | Other   |  | Consolidated
|      |                                  |                           |   |               |  |                |   |             |  |             |   |         |  |             
|      |                                  | (In thousands of dollars)
|2004: |                                  |                           |   |               |  |                |   |             |  |             |   |         |  |              |   |         |  |  |   |         |  |  |   |         |  |  |   |          
|      | Revenues from external customers |                           | $ | 341,570       |  |                | $ | 214,598     |  |             | $ | 180,321 |  |              | $ | 158,629 |  |  | $ | 270,284 |  |  | $ | 23,193  |  |  | $ | 1,188,595 | 
|      | Gross profit                     |                           |   | 196,990       |  |                |   | 150,645     |  |             |   | 44,392  |  |              |   | 13,797  |  |  |   | 28,033  |  |  |   | 23,193  |  |  |   | 457,050   | 
|      | Identifiable assets              |                           |   | 1,468,844     |  |                |   | 606,489     |  |             |   | 61,078  |  |              |   | 56,825  |  |  |   | 145,149 |  |  |   | 423,778 |  |  |   | 2,762,163 | 
|      | Capital expenditures             |                           |   | 40,271        |  |                |   | 36,713      |  |             |   |        |  |              |   |        |  |  |   | 7,907   |  |  |   | 5,605   |  |  |   | 90,496    | 
|2003: |                                  |                           |   |               |  |                |   |             |  |             |   |         |  |              |   |         |  |  |   |         |  |  |   |         |  |  |   |          
|      | Revenues from external customers |                           | $ | 324,186       |  |                | $ | 191,301     |  |             | $ | 164,935 |  |              | $ | 106,896 |  |  | $ | 260,660 |  |  | $ | 27,102  |  |  | $ | 1,075,080 | 
|      | Gross profit                     |                           |   | 196,761       |  |                |   | 129,426     |  |             |   | 41,680  |  |              |   | 9,974   |  |  |   | 26,457  |  |  |   | 27,102  |  |  |   | 431,400   | 
|      | Identifiable assets              |                           |   | 1,648,393     |  |                |   | 538,881     |  |             |   | 60,843  |  |              |   | 71,611  |  |  |   | 59,487  |  |  |   | 563,059 |  |  |   | 2,942,274 | 
|      | Capital expenditures             |                           |   | 73,007        |  |                |   | 59,200      |  |             |   | 24      |  |              |   | 2,735   |  |  |   | 7,500   |  |  |   |        |  |  |   | 142,466   | 
|2002: |                                  |                           |   |               |  |                |   |             |  |             |   |         |  |              |   |         |  |  |   |         |  |  |   |         |  |  |   |          
|      | Revenues from external customers |                           | $ | 328,600       |  |                | $ | 175,337     |  |             | $ | 223,685 |  |              | $ | 114,009 |  |  | $ | 149,656 |  |  | $ | 22,154  |  |  | $ | 1,013,441 | 
|      | Gross profit                     |                           |   | 206,428       |  |                |   | 122,341     |  |             |   | 43,842  |  |              |   | 14,563  |  |  |   | 22,214  |  |  |   | 22,154  |  |  |   | 431,542   | 
|      | Identifiable assets              |                           |   | 690,725       |  |                |   | 533,197     |  |             |   | 92,644  |  |              |   | 76,511  |  |  |   | 125,071 |  |  |   | 658,835 |  |  |   | 2,176,983 | 
|      | Capital expenditures             |                           |   | 120,581       |  |                |   | 101,349     |  |             |   | 1,093   |  |              |   | 441     |  |  |   | 26,706  |  |  |   |        |  |  |   | 250,170   | 



| |                
| | ---------------
| | Geographic Data

|      |                                  |                           |   |                  |  |              |   |           |  |  |   |           | 
|----- | -------------------------------- | ------------------------- | - | ---------------- |  | ------------ | - | --------- |  |  | - | --------- | 
|      |                                  | United States             |   | International(1) |  | Consolidated
|      |                                  |                           |   |                  |  |             
|      |                                  | (In thousands of dollars)
|2004: |                                  |                           |   |                  |  |              |   |           |  |  |   |          
|      | Revenues from external customers |                           | $ | 619,981          |  |              | $ | 568,614   |  |  | $ | 1,188,595 | 
|      | Identifiable assets              |                           | $ | 1,786,536        |  |              | $ | 975,627   |  |  | $ | 2,762,163 | 
|2003: |                                  |                           |   |                  |  |              |   |           |  |  |   |          
|      | Revenues from external customers |                           | $ | 647,176          |  |              | $ | 427,904   |  |  | $ | 1,075,080 | 
|      | Identifiable assets              |                           | $ | 1,974,752        |  |              | $ | 967,522   |  |  | $ | 2,942,274 | 
|2002: |                                  |                           |   |                  |  |              |   |           |  |  |   |          
|      | Revenues from external customers |                           | $ | 692,823          |  |              | $ | 320,618   |  |  | $ | 1,013,441 | 
|      | Identifiable assets              |                           | $ | 1,090,956        |  |              | $ | 1,086,027 |  |  | $ | 2,176,983 | 






|    |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
|--- | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|(1) | International operations include approximately
    $141.6 million, $122.8 million and $104.0 million
    of revenues and $332.2 million, $348.2 million and
    $431.0 million of identifiable assets for 2004, 2003 and
    2002, respectively, related to operations and investments in
    Venezuela. Approximately $89.2 million, $79.4 million
    and $141.0 million of the identifiable assets in 2004, 2003
    and 2002, respectively, relates to the joint ventures acquired
    in connection with the POC acquisition completed in August 2001.
    (See Note 8.)



|    |                  
|--- | -----------------
|25. | Subsequent Events



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SELECTED QUARTERLY UNAUDITED FINANCIAL DATA




|            |                                                              |                                          |                                                     |         |       |         |   |         |       |   |   |          |       |       |   |         |       |       |  
|----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ----- | ------- | - | ------- | ----- | - | - | -------- | ----- | ----- | - | ------- | ----- | ----- | -
|            |                                                              | 1st                                      |                                                     | 2nd     |       | 3rd     |   | 4th    
|            |                                                              | Quarter                                  |                                                     | Quarter |       | Quarter |   | Quarter
|            |                                                              |                                          |                                                     |         |       |         |   |        
|            |                                                              | (In thousands, except per share amounts)
|2004(2):    |                                                              |                                          |                                                     |         |       |         |   |         |       |   |   |          |       |       |   |        
|            | Revenue                                                      |                                          | $                                                   | 269,831 |       |         | $ | 292,876 |       |   | $ | 315,811  |       |       | $ | 310,077 |      
|            | Gross profit                                                 |                                          |                                                     | 112,941 |       |         |   | 118,254 |       |   |   | 116,588  |       |       |   | 109,267 |      
|            | Net loss                                                     |                                          |                                                     | (9,454  | )     |         |   | (9,061  | )     |   |   | (5,274   | )     |       |   | (20,217 | )    
|            | Loss per common and common equivalent share:                 |                                          |                                                     |         |       |         |   |         |       |   |   |          |       |       |   |         |      
|            |                                                              | Basic                                    |                                                     | $       | (0.11 | )       |   | $       | (0.11 | ) |   | $        | (0.06 | )     |   | $       | (0.24 | )    
|            |                                                              | Diluted                                  |                                                     | $       | (0.11 | )       |   | $       | (0.11 | ) |   | $        | (0.06 | )     |   | $       | (0.24 | )    
|2003(1)(2): |                                                              |                                          |                                                     |         |       |         |   |         |       |   |   |          |       |       |   |        
|            | Revenue                                                      |                                          | $                                                   | 269,792 |       |         | $ | 272,288 |       |   | $ | 270,837  |       |       | $ | 262,163 |      
|            | Gross profit                                                 |                                          |                                                     | 111,991 |       |         |   | 108,825 |       |   |   | 106,219  |       |       |   | 104,365 |      
|            | Income (loss) before cumulative effect of accounting changes |                                          |                                                     | (26,599 | )     |         |   | 207     |       |   |   | (58,509  | )     |       |   | (36,448 | )    
|            | Net income (loss)                                            |                                          |                                                     | (26,599 | )     |         |   | 207     |       |   |   | (145,419 | )     |       |   | (36,448 | )    
|            | Loss per common and common equivalent share:                 |                                          |                                                     |         |       |         |   |         |       |   |   |          |       |       |   |         |      
|            |                                                              | Basic:                                   |                                                     |         |       |         |   |         |       |   |   |          |       |       |   |         |       |      
|            |                                                              |                                          | Loss before cumulative effect of accounting changes |         | $     | (0.33   | ) |         | $     |  |   |          | $     | (0.72 | ) |         | $     | (0.45 | )
|            |                                                              |                                          | Net loss                                            |         | $     | (0.33   | ) |         | $     |  |   |          | $     | (1.79 | ) |         | $     | (0.45 | )
|            |                                                              | Diluted:                                 |                                                     |         |       |         |   |         |       |   |   |          |       |       |   |         |       |      
|            |                                                              |                                          | Loss before cumulative effect of accounting changes |         | $     | (0.33   | ) |         | $     |  |   |          | $     | (0.72 | ) |         | $     | (0.45 | )
|            |                                                              |                                          | Net loss                                            |         | $     | (0.33   | ) |         | $     |  |   |          | $     | (1.79 | ) |         | $     | (0.45 | )






|    |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
|--- | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|(1) | During, the first quarter of 2003, we recorded a
    $42.1 million estimated provision for the estimated
    settlement of securities litigation that was subsequently
    adjusted to $43.0 million. During the third quarter of
    2003, we recorded a $35.5 million goodwill impairment,
    $14.3 million rental fleet impairment, $16.8 million
    write-down of discontinued operations and $133.7 million
    cumulative effect of accounting change for the adoption of
    FIN 46. During the fourth quarter of 2003, we recorded a
    $2.5 million write-off of deferred financing costs and
    $2.3 million write-down of discontinued operations.
|   
|(2) | Amounts reflect reclassifications for discontinued operations.
    (See Note 3.)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

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(PARENT COMPANY ONLY)


CONDENSED BALANCE SHEET


|                                               |                                                                                                                         |                                   |           |           |           |   |           |           |           | 
|---------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | - | --------- | --------- | --------- | 
|                                               |                                                                                                                         | December 31,                     
|                                               |                                                                                                                         |                                  
|                                               |                                                                                                                         | 2004                              |           | 2003     
|                                               |                                                                                                                         |                                   |           |          
|                                               |                                                                                                                         | (in thousands, except par        
|                                               |                                                                                                                         | value and share amounts)         
|Restricted cash  securities settlement escrow |                                                                                                                         | $                                 |          |           |           | $ | 29,649    |          
|Intangible and other assets                    |                                                                                                                         |                                   | 5,945     |           |           |   | 6,995     |          
|Investments in and advances to subsidiaries    |                                                                                                                         |                                   | 1,788,687 |           |           |   | 1,590,569 |          
|                                               |                                                                                                                         |                                   |           |           |           |   |           |          
|                                               |                                                                                                                         | Total assets                      |           | $         | 1,794,632 |   |           | $         | 1,627,213 | 
|                                               |                                                                                                                         |                                   |           |           |           |   |           |          
|Accrued liabilities  current                  |                                                                                                                         | $                                 | 8,448     |           |           | $ | 36,567    |          
|Long-term debt                                 |                                                                                                                         |                                   | 1,028,467 |           |           |   | 807,501   |          
|Other liabilities                              |                                                                                                                         |                                   |          |           |           |   | 33,432    |          
|                                               |                                                                                                                         |                                   |           |           |           |   |           |          
|                                               |                                                                                                                         | Total liabilities                 |           |           | 1,036,915 |   |           |           | 877,500   | 
|                                               |                                                                                                                         |                                   |           |           |           |   |           |          
|Common stockholders equity:                   |                                                                                                                         |                                   |           |           |           |   |           |          
|                                               | Common stock, $.001 par value; 200,000,000 shares authorized;
    87,653,970 and 82,649,629 shares issued, respectively |                                   | $         | 88        |           |   | $         | 83        |          
|                                               | Additional paid-in capital                                                                                              |                                   |           | 913,007   |           |   |           | 856,020   |          
|                                               | Treasury stock  661,810 and 252,815 shares, at cost,
    respectively                                                  |                                   |           | (7,307    | )         |   |           | (2,325    | )        
|                                               | Retained deficit                                                                                                        |                                   |           | (148,071  | )         |   |           | (104,065  | )        
|                                               |                                                                                                                         |                                   |           |           |           |   |           |          
|                                               |                                                                                                                         | Total common stockholders equity |           |           | 757,717   |   |           |           | 749,713   | 
|                                               |                                                                                                                         |                                   |           |           |           |   |           |          
|                                               | Total liabilities and common stockholders equity                                                                       |                                   | $         | 1,794,632 |           |   | $         | 1,627,213 |          
|                                               |                                                                                                                         |                                   |           |           |           |   |           |          

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SCHEDULE I


HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


(PARENT COMPANY ONLY)


CONDENSED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS


|                                                         |                                             |                                          |         |        |   |      |          |        |  |   |          |        | 
|-------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | ------- | ------ | - | ---- | -------- | ------ |  | - | -------- | ------ | 
|                                                         |                                             | Years Ended December 31,                
|                                                         |                                             |                                         
|                                                         |                                             | 2004                                     |         | 2003   |   | 2002
|                                                         |                                             |                                          |         |        |   |     
|                                                         |                                             | (in thousands, except per share amounts)
|Interest income from subsidiary                          |                                             | $                                        | 53,166  |        |   | $    | 20,551   |        |  | $ | 17,163   |       
|Expenses:                                                |                                             |                                          |         |        |   |      |          |        |  |   |          |       
|                                                         | Provision for cost of litigation settlement |                                          |         | (4,163 | ) |      |          | 42,991 |  |   |          |       | 
|                                                         | Amortization of debt issuance costs         |                                          |         | 932    |   |      |          | 932    |  |   |          | 932    | 
|                                                         | Interest expense                            |                                          |         | 69,139 |   |      |          | 36,020 |  |   |          | 32,656 | 
|                                                         |                                             |                                          |         |        |   |      |          |        |  |   |          |       
|                                                         |                                             |                                          | 65,908  |        |   |      | 79,943   |        |  |   | 33,588   |       
|                                                         |                                             |                                          |         |        |   |      |          |        |  |   |          |       
|Loss before income taxes and equity loss of subsidiaries |                                             |                                          | (12,742 | )      |   |      | (59,392  | )      |  |   | (16,425  | )     
|Provision for (benefit from) income taxes                |                                             |                                          | (4,149  | )      |   |      | 4,959    |        |  |   | (5,749   | )     
|                                                         |                                             |                                          |         |        |   |      |          |        |  |   |          |       
|                                                         |                                             |                                          | (8,593  | )      |   |      | (64,351  | )      |  |   | (10,676  | )     
|Equity loss of subsidiaries, net of tax                  |                                             |                                          | (35,413 | )      |   |      | (143,908 | )      |  |   | (105,392 | )     
|                                                         |                                             |                                          |         |        |   |      |          |        |  |   |          |       
|Net loss                                                 |                                             | $                                        | (44,006 | )      |   | $    | (208,259 | )      |  | $ | (116,068 | )     
|                                                         |                                             |                                          |         |        |   |      |          |        |  |   |          |       
|Basic and diluted loss per common share:                 |                                             |                                          |         |        |   |      |          |        |  |   |          |       
|Net loss                                                 |                                             | $                                        | (0.52   | )      |   | $    | (2.57    | )      |  | $ | (1.46    | )     
|                                                         |                                             |                                          |         |        |   |      |          |        |  |   |          |       
|Shares  Basic                                           |                                             |                                          | 84,792  |        |   |      | 81,123   |        |  |   | 79,500   |       
|                                                         |                                             |                                          |         |        |   |      |          |        |  |   |          |       
|Shares  Diluted                                         |                                             |                                          | 84,792  |        |   |      | 81,123   |        |  |   | 79,500   |       
|                                                         |                                             |                                          |         |        |   |      |          |        |  |   |          |       

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SCHEDULE I


HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


(PARENT COMPANY ONLY)


CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS


|                                                     |                                        |                                                            |                                           |          |        |         |   |          |         |         |   |          |         |         |  
|---------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- | -------- | ------ | ------- | - | -------- | ------- | ------- | - | -------- | ------- | ------- | -
|                                                     |                                        | Years Ended December 31,                                  
|                                                     |                                        |                                                           
|                                                     |                                        | 2004                                                       |                                           | 2003     |        | 2002   
|                                                     |                                        |                                                            |                                           |          |        |        
|                                                     |                                        | (in thousands)                                            
|Cash flows from operating activities:                |                                        |                                                            |                                           |          |        |         |   |          |         |         |   |         
|                                                     | Net loss                               |                                                            | $                                         | (44,006  | )      |         | $ | (208,259 | )       |         | $ | (116,068 | )      
|                                                     | Adjustments:                           |                                                            |                                           |          |        |         |   |          |         |         |   |          |        
|                                                     |                                        | Equity in losses of subsidiaries                           |                                           |          | 35,413 |         |   |          | 143,908 |         |   |          | 105,392 |        
|                                                     |                                        | Deferred tax provision (benefit)                           |                                           |          | (4,149 | )       |   |          | 4,959   |         |   |          | (5,749  | )      
|                                                     |                                        | Amortization of debt issue costs                           |                                           |          | 932    |         |   |          | 932     |         |   |          | 932     |        
|                                                     |                                        | Securities related litigation settlement, net of cash paid |                                           |          | (6,326 | )       |   |          | 39,494  |         |   |          |        |        
|                                                     |                                        | Increase due to other                                      |                                           |          | 46     |         |   |          | 224     |         |   |          | 97      |        
|                                                     |                                        |                                                            |                                           |          |        |         |   |          |         |         |   |         
|                                                     |                                        |                                                            | Net cash used in operating activities     |          |        | (18,090 | ) |          |         | (18,742 | ) |          |         | (15,396 | )
|                                                     |                                        |                                                            |                                           |          |        |         |   |          |         |         |   |         
|Cash flows from investing activities:                |                                        |                                                            |                                           |          |        |         |   |          |         |         |   |         
|                                                     | Distributions from equity subsidiaries |                                                            |                                           | 8,541    |        |         |   | 12,043   |         |         |   | 9,945    |        
|                                                     |                                        |                                                            |                                           |          |        |         |   |          |         |         |   |         
|                                                     |                                        |                                                            | Net cash provided by investing activities |          |        | 8,541   |   |          |         | 12,043  |   |          |         | 9,945   |  
|                                                     |                                        |                                                            |                                           |          |        |         |   |          |         |         |   |         
|Cash flows from financing activities:                |                                        |                                                            |                                           |          |        |         |   |          |         |         |   |         
|                                                     | Issuance of senior notes               |                                                            |                                           | 200,000  |        |         |   | 200,000  |         |         |   |         |        
|                                                     | Issuance of convertible notes          |                                                            |                                           |         |        |         |   | 143,750  |         |         |   |         |        
|                                                     | Advances to subsidiary                 |                                                            |                                           | (200,000 | )      |         |   | (343,750 | )       |         |   |         |        
|                                                     | Purchase of treasury stock             |                                                            |                                           |         |        |         |   |         |         |         |   | (1,608   | )      
|                                                     | Proceeds from stock options exercised  |                                                            |                                           | 9,549    |        |         |   | 6,699    |         |         |   | 6,662    |        
|                                                     | Proceeds from employee stock purchase  |                                                            |                                           |         |        |         |   |         |         |         |   | 277      |        
|                                                     | Proceeds from employee notes           |                                                            |                                           |         |        |         |   |         |         |         |   | 120      |        
|                                                     |                                        |                                                            |                                           |          |        |         |   |          |         |         |   |         
|                                                     |                                        |                                                            | Net cash provided by financing activities |          |        | 9,549   |   |          |         | 6,699   |   |          |         | 5,451   |  
|                                                     |                                        |                                                            |                                           |          |        |         |   |          |         |         |   |         
|Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents |                                        |                                                            |                                          |          |        |         |  |          |         |         |  |         
|Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year       |                                        |                                                            |                                          |          |        |         |  |          |         |         |  |         
|                                                     |                                        |                                                            |                                           |          |        |         |   |          |         |         |   |         
|Cash and cash equivalents at end of year             |                                        | $                                                          |                                          |          |        | $       |  |          |         | $       |  |         
|                                                     |                                        |                                                            |                                           |          |        |         |   |          |         |         |   |         

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SCHEDULE I


HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


(PARENT COMPANY ONLY)


CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMMON STOCKHOLDERS EQUITY


|                                                                                         |  |                                   |            |            |  |          |    |          |  |           |         |  |  |   |        |   |  |   |          |  
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |  | --------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------- |  | -------- | -- | -------- |  | --------- | ------- |  |  | - | ------ | - |  | - | -------- | -
|                                                                                         |  | Common stock                      |            | Additional |  |          |    | Retained
|                                                                                         |  |                                   |            | paid-in    |  | Treasury |    | earnings
|                                                                                         |  | Shares                            |            | Amount     |  | capital  |    | stock    |  | (deficit)
|                                                                                         |  |                                   |            |            |  |          |    |          |  |          
|                                                                                         |  | (in thousands, except share data)
|Balance at December 31, 2001                                                             |  |                                   | 79,228,179 |            |  | $        | 79 |          |  | $         | 828,939 |  |  | $ | (717   | ) |  | $ | 220,262  |  
|Exercise of stock options                                                                |  |                                   | 1,422,850  |            |  |          | 2  |          |  |           | 6,912   |  |  |   |       |   |  |   |         |  
|Issuance of restricted stock grants, net of amortization expense                         |  |                                   | 142,630    |            |  |          |   |          |  |           | 2,708   |  |  |   |       |   |  |   |         |  
|Issuance of common stock to employees                                                    |  |                                   | 21,550     |            |  |          |   |          |  |           | 551     |  |  |   |       |   |  |   |         |  
|Purchase of 147,322 treasury shares at $8.96 per share                                   |  |                                   |           |            |  |          |   |          |  |           |        |  |  |   | (1,320 | ) |  |   |         |  
|Purchase of 30,054 treasury shares at $9.60 per share                                    |  |                                   |           |            |  |          |   |          |  |           |        |  |  |   | (288   | ) |  |   |         |  
|Income tax benefit from stock options exercised                                          |  |                                   |           |            |  |          |   |          |  |           | 2,547   |  |  |   |       |   |  |   |         |  
|Net loss                                                                                 |  |                                   |           |            |  |          |   |          |  |           |        |  |  |   |       |   |  |   | (116,068 | )
|                                                                                         |  |                                   |            |            |  |          |    |          |  |           |         |  |  |   |        |   |  |   |          |  
|Balance at December 31, 2002                                                             |  |                                   | 80,815,209 |            |  | $        | 81 |          |  | $         | 841,657 |  |  | $ | (2,325 | ) |  | $ | 104,194  |  
|Exercise of stock options                                                                |  |                                   | 1,432,636  |            |  |          | 1  |          |  |           | 6,987   |  |  |   |       |   |  |   |         |  
|Issuance of restricted stock grants, net of forfeitures, net of
    amortization expense |  |                                   | 400,384    |            |  |          | 1  |          |  |           | 4,345   |  |  |   |       |   |  |   |         |  
|Issuance of common stock to employees                                                    |  |                                   | 1,400      |            |  |          |   |          |  |           | 35      |  |  |   |       |   |  |   |         |  
|Income tax benefit from stock options exercised                                          |  |                                   |           |            |  |          |   |          |  |           | 2,996   |  |  |   |       |   |  |   |         |  
|Net loss                                                                                 |  |                                   |           |            |  |          |   |          |  |           |        |  |  |   |       |   |  |   | (208,259 | )
|                                                                                         |  |                                   |            |            |  |          |    |          |  |           |         |  |  |   |        |   |  |   |          |  
|Balance at December 31, 2003                                                             |  |                                   | 82,649,629 |            |  | $        | 83 |          |  | $         | 856,020 |  |  | $ | (2,325 | ) |  | $ | (104,065 | )
|Exercise of stock options                                                                |  |                                   | 1,140,073  |            |  |          | 1  |          |  |           | 9,882   |  |  |   |       |   |  |   |         |  
|Issuance of restricted stock grants, net of forfeitures, net of
    amortization expense |  |                                   | 1,364,268  |            |  |          | 1  |          |  |           | 17,308  |  |  |   | (4,982 | ) |  |   |         |  
|Issuance of common stock for shareholder litigation                                      |  |                                   | 2,500,000  |            |  |          | 3  |          |  |           | 29,797  |  |  |   |       |   |  |   |         |  
|Net loss                                                                                 |  |                                   |           |            |  |          |   |          |  |           |        |  |  |   |       |   |  |   | (44,006  | )
|                                                                                         |  |                                   |            |            |  |          |    |          |  |           |         |  |  |   |        |   |  |   |          |  
|Balance at December 31, 2004                                                             |  |                                   | 87,653,970 |            |  | $        | 88 |          |  | $         | 913,007 |  |  | $ | (7,307 | ) |  | $ | (148,071 | )
|                                                                                         |  |                                   |            |            |  |          |    |          |  |           |         |  |  |   |        |   |  |   |          |  

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SCHEDULE I


HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


(PARENT COMPANY ONLY)


NOTES TO CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS




|        |                                        
|------- | ---------------------------------------
|Note 1. | Investment and Advances to Subsidiaries







|                                                  |  |              |         |              |  |   |         | 
|------------------------------------------------- |  | ------------ | ------- | ------------ |  | - | ------- | 
|                                                  |  | December 31, |         | December 31,
|                                                  |  | 2004         |         | 2003        
|                                                  |  |              |         |             
|4.75% senior notes due 2014                       |  | $            | 143,750 |              |  | $ | 143,750 | 
|8.625% senior notes due 2010                      |  |              | 200,000 |              |  |   | 200,000 | 
|9.0% senior notes due 2014                        |  |              | 200,000 |              |  |   |        | 
|11% zero coupon subordinated notes due March 2007 |  |              | 206,467 |              |  |   | 185,501 | 
|                                                  |  |              |         |              |  |   |         | 
|                                                  |  | $            | 750,217 |              |  | $ | 529,251 | 
|                                                  |  |              |         |              |  |   |         | 



|        |               
|------- | --------------
|Note 2. | Long-term Debt



|           |  |              |           | 
|---------- |  | ------------ | --------- | 
|           |  | December 31,
|           |  | 2004        
|           |  |             
|2005       |  | $            |          | 
|2006       |  |              |          | 
|2007       |  |              | 206,467   | 
|2008       |  |              |          | 
|2009       |  |              | 192,000   | 
|Thereafter |  |              | 630,000   | 
|           |  |              |           | 
|           |  | $            | 1,028,467 | 
|           |  |              |           | 



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SCHEDULE II


HANOVER COMPRESSOR COMPANY


VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS


|                                                                                                    |      |                |   |            |  |            |   |            |  |  |   |        |     |  |   |        | 
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---- | -------------- | - | ---------- |  | ---------- | - | ---------- |  |  | - | ------ | --- |  | - | ------ | 
|                                                                                                    |      |                |   | Additions  |  |            |   |           
|                                                                                                    |      | Balance at     |   | Charged to |  |            |   | Balance at
|                                                                                                    |      | Beginning      |   | Costs and  |  |            |   | End of    
|Description                                                                                         |      | of Period      |   | Expenses   |  | Deductions |   | Period    
|                                                                                                    |      |                |   |            |  |            |   |           
|                                                                                                    |      | (In thousands)
|Allowance for doubtful accounts deducted from accounts
    receivable in the balance sheet          |      |                |   |            |  |            |   |            |  |  |   |        |     |  |   |       
|                                                                                                    | 2004 |                | $ | 5,460      |  |            | $ | 2,658      |  |  | $ | 545    | (1) |  | $ | 7,573  | 
|                                                                                                    | 2003 |                |   | 5,162      |  |            |   | 4,028      |  |  |   | 3,730  | (1) |  |   | 5,460  | 
|                                                                                                    | 2002 |                |   | 6,300      |  |            |   | 7,091      |  |  |   | 8,229  | (1) |  |   | 5,162  | 
|Allowance for obsolete and slow moving inventory deducted from
    inventories in the balance sheet |      |                |   |            |  |            |   |            |  |  |   |        |     |  |   |       
|                                                                                                    | 2004 |                | $ | 12,729     |  |            | $ | 1,062      |  |  | $ | 2,092  | (2) |  | $ | 11,699 | 
|                                                                                                    | 2003 |                |   | 14,211     |  |            |   | 1,536      |  |  |   | 3,018  | (2) |  |   | 12,729 | 
|                                                                                                    | 2002 |                |   | 2,101      |  |            |   | 13,853     |  |  |   | 1,743  | (2) |  |   | 14,211 | 
|Allowance for deferred tax assets not expected to be realized                                       |      |                |   |            |  |            |   |            |  |  |   |        |     |  |   |       
|                                                                                                    | 2004 |                | $ | 55,015     |  |            | $ | 23,429     |  |  | $ | 13,003 | (3) |  | $ | 65,441 | 
|                                                                                                    | 2003 |                |   | 23,371     |  |            |   | 46,824     |  |  |   | 15,180 |     |  |   | 55,015 | 
|                                                                                                    | 2002 |                |   |           |  |            |   | 23,371     |  |  |   |       |     |  |   | 23,371 | 
|Allowance for employee loans                                                                        |      |                |   |            |  |            |   |            |  |  |   |        |     |  |   |       
|                                                                                                    | 2003 |                | $ | 6,021      |  |            | $ |           |  |  | $ | 6,021  | (4) |  | $ |       | 
|                                                                                                    | 2002 |                |   |           |  |            |   | 6,021      |  |  |   |       |     |  |   | 6,021  | 






|    |                                                                                                            
|--- | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|(1) | Uncollectible accounts written off, net of recoveries.                                                     
|   
|(2) | Obsolete inventory written off at cost, net of value received.                                             
|   
|(3) | Reflects utilization of prior year valuation allowance in the
    current year.                            
|   
|(4) | During 2003, the notes receivable for loans to employees who
    were not executive officers were forgiven.

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EXHIBIT INDEX


|        |   |             |  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
|------- | - | ----------- |  | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|Exhibit |   |            
|Number  |   | Description
|        |   |            
|        | 3 | .1          |  | Certificate of Incorporation of the Hanover Compressor Holding
    Co., as amended, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1
    to Hanover Compressor Companys (the Company)
    Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on
    February 5, 2001.                                                                                                                                             
|        | 3 | .2          |  | Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation of
    Hanover Compressor Holding Co., dated December 8, 1999,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the
    Companys Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the
    SEC on February 5, 2001.                                                                                                                                        
|        | 3 | .3          |  | Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation of
    Hanover Compressor Holding Co., dated July 11, 2000,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 to the
    Companys Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the
    SEC on February 5, 2001.                                                                                                                                           
|        | 3 | .4          |  | Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, dated March 10,
    2004, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.4 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
    ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                
|        | 4 | .1          |  | Third Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated
    as of December 5, 1995, by and between the Company, GKH
    Partners, L.P., GKH Investments, L.P., Astra Resources, Inc. and
    other stockholders of the Company party thereto, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Companys Registration
    Statement (File No. 333-24953) on Form S-1, as amended.            
|        | 4 | .2          |  | Form of Warrant Agreement, dated as of August 7, 1995,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.10 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-24953)
    on Form S-1, as amended.                                                                                                                                                                                                      
|        | 4 | .3          |  | Specimen Stock Certificate, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 4.11 to the Companys Registration Statement
    (File No. 333-24953) on Form S-1, as amended.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
|        | 4 | .4          |  | Form of Hanover Compressor Capital
    Trust 71/4% Convertible
    Preferred Securities, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 4.8 to the Companys Registration Statement
    (File No. 333-30344) on Form S-3 as filed with the SEC
    on February 14, 2000.                                                                                                                                      
|        | 4 | .5          |  | Indenture for the Convertible Junior Subordinated Debentures due
    2029, dated as of December 15, 1999, among the Company, as
    issuer, and Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.6 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-30344)
    on Form S-3 filed with the SEC on February 14, 2000.                                            
|        | 4 | .6          |  | Form of Hanover Compressor Company Convertible Subordinated
    Junior Debentures due 2029, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 4.9 to the Companys Registration Statement
    (File No. 333-30344) on Form S-3 as filed with the SEC
    on February 14, 2000.                                                                                                                                   
|        | 4 | .7          |  | Indenture for the 4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2008,
    dated as of March 15, 2001, between the Company and
    Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 4.7 to the Companys Annual
    Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
    2003.                                                                                                     
|        | 4 | .8          |  | Form of 4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2008,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.8 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
    ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
|        | 4 | .9          |  | Indenture for the 8.50% Senior Secured Notes due 2008,
    dated as of August 30, 2001, among the 2001A Trust, as
    issuer, Hanover Compression Limited Partnership and certain
    subsidiaries, as guarantors, and Wilmington Trust FSB, as
    Trustee, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.69 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended September 30, 2001.
|        | 4 | .10         |  | Form of 8.50% Senior Secured Notes due 2008, incorporated
    by reference to Exhibit 4.10 to the Companys Annual
    Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
    2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
|        | 4 | .11         |  | Indenture for the 8.75% Senior Secured Notes due 2011,
    dated as of August 30, 2001, among the 2001B Trust, as
    issuer, Hanover Compression Limited Partnership and certain
    subsidiaries, as guarantors, and Wilmington Trust FSB, as
    Trustee, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.75 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended September 30, 2001.
|        | 4 | .12         |  | Form of 8.75% Senior Secured Notes due 2011, incorporated
    by reference to Exhibit 4.12 to the Companys Annual
    Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
    2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    



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|        |    |             |  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
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|Exhibit |    |            
|Number  |    | Description
|        |    |            
|        | 4  | .13         |  | Indenture for the Zero Coupon Subordinated Notes due
    March 31, 2007, dated as of May 14, 2003, between the
    Company and Wachovia Bank, National Association, as trustee,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-106384)
    on Form S-3, as filed with the SEC on June 23, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                          
|        | 4  | .14         |  | Form of Zero Coupon Subordinated Notes due March 31, 2007,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.14 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
    ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
|        | 4  | .15         |  | Senior Indenture, dated as of December 15, 2003, among the
    Company, Subsidiary Guarantors named therein and Wachovia Bank,
    National Association, as trustee, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 4.1 to the Companys Registration Statement on
    Form 8-A, as filed with the SEC on December 15, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
|        | 4  | .16         |  | First Supplemental Indenture to the Senior Indenture dated as of
    December 15, 2003, relating to the 8.625% Senior Notes
    due 2010, dated as of December  15, 2003, among
    Hanover Compressor Company, Hanover Compression Limited
    Partnership and Wachovia Bank, National Association, as trustee,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the
    Companys Registration Statement on Form 8-A, as filed
    with the SEC on December 15, 2003.                                                                           
|        | 4  | .17         |  | Form of 8.625% Senior Notes due 2010, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 4.17 to the Companys Annual
    Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
    2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
|        | 4  | .18         |  | Second Supplemental Indenture to the Senior Indenture dated as
    of December 15, 2003, relating to the
    4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2014, dated as of
    December 15, 2003, between the Company and Wachovia Bank,
    National Association, as trustee, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 4.4 to the Companys Current Report on
    Form 8-K, as filed with the SEC on December 16, 2003.                                                                                                                                  
|        | 4  | .19         |  | Form of 4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2014,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.19 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
    ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
|        | 4  | .20         |  | Lock-Up, Standstill and Registration Rights Agreement, dated as
    of August 31, 2001, by and among Schlumberger Technology
    Corporation, Camco International, Inc., Schlumberger Oilfield
    Holdings Ltd., Schlumberger Surenco S.A., Operational Services,
    Inc. and the Company, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 99.5 to the Companys Current Report on
    Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September  14,
    2001.                                                                                                        
|        | 4  | .21         |  | Third Supplemental Indenture to the Senior Indenture dated as of
    December 15, 2003, relating to the 9.0% Senior Notes
    due 2014, dated as of June 1, 2004, among Hanover
    Compressor Company, Hanover Compression Limited Partnership and
    Wachovia Bank, National Association, as trustee, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Registration Statement of
    Hanover Compressor Company and Hanover Compression Limited
    Partnership on Form 8-A under the Securities Act of 1934,
    as filed on June 2, 2004.
|        | 4  | .22         |  | Form of 9% Senior Notes due 2014, incorporated by reference
    to Exhibit 4.3 to the Registration Statement of Hanover
    Compressor Company and Hanover Compression Limited Partnership
    on Form 8-A under the Securities Act of 1934, as filed on
    June 2, 2004.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
|        | 10 | .1          |  | Stipulation and Agreement of Settlement, dated as of
    October 23, 2003, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 10.1 to the Companys Quarterly Report on
    Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
|        | 10 | .2          |  | PIGAP Settlement Agreement, dated as of May 14, 2003, by
    and among Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Schlumberger
    Oilfield Limited, Schlumberger Surenco S.A., the Company and
    Hanover Compression Limited Partnership, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Companys Annual
    Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
    2003.                                                                                                                                                                   
|        | 10 | .3          |  | Credit Agreement, dated as of December 15, 2003, among the
    Company, Hanover Compression Limited Partnership, Bank One, NA
    as Syndication Agent, JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Administrative
    Agent, and the several lenders parties thereto, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Companys Current
    Report on Form 8-K, as filed with the SEC on
    December 16, 2003.                                                                                                                                                
|        | 10 | .4          |  | Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, dated as of
    December 15, 2003, among the Company, Hanover Compression
    Limited Partnership and certain of their subsidiaries in favor
    of JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Collateral Agent, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Companys Current
    Report on Form  8-K, as filed with the SEC on
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|Exhibit |    |            
|Number  |    | Description
|        |    |            
|        | 10 | .5          |  | Hanover Guarantee, dated as of December 15, 2003, made by
    the Company in favor of JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Administrative
    Agent for the lenders parties to the Credit Agreement dated as
    of December 15, 2003, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 10.6 to the Companys Annual Report on
    Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                        
|        | 10 | .6          |  | Subsidiaries Guarantee, dated as of December 15,
    2003, in favor of JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Administrative Agent
    for the lenders parties to the Credit Agreement dated as of
    December 15, 2003, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 10.7 to the Companys Annual Report on
    Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
|        | 10 | .7          |  | Lease, dated as of October 27, 2000, between Hanover
    Equipment Trust 2000B (the 2000B Trust) and
    Hanover Compression Inc., incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 10.54 to the Companys Registration Statement
    (File No. 333-50836) on Form S-4, as filed with the
    SEC on December 22, 2000.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
|        | 10 | .8          |  | Guarantee, dated as of October 27, 2000 made by the
    Company, Hanover Compression Inc. and certain subsidiaries,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.55 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-50836)
    on Form S-4, as filed with the SEC on December 22,
    2000.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
|        | 10 | .9          |  | Participation Agreement, dated as of October 27, 2000,
    among Hanover Compression Inc., the 2000B Trust, The Chase
    Manhattan Bank, National Westminster Bank PLC, Citibank N.A.,
    Credit Suisse First Boston and the Industrial Bank of Japan as
    co-agents; Bank Hapoalim B.M. and FBTC Leasing Corp., as
    investors, Wilmington Trust Company and various lenders,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.56 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-50836)
    on Form S-4, as filed with the SEC on December 22,
    2000.
|        | 10 | .10         |  | Security Agreement, dated as of October 27, 2000, made by
    the 2000B Trust in favor of The Chase Manhattan Bank as agent
    for the lenders, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.57
    to the Companys Registration Statement (File
    No. 333-50836) on Form S-4, as filed with the SEC on
    December 22, 2000.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
|        | 10 | .11         |  | Assignment of Leases, Rents and Guarantee, dated as of
    October 27, 2000, made by the 2000B Trust to The Chase
    Manhattan Bank as agent for the lenders, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 10.58 to the Companys
    Registration Statement (File No. 333-50836) on
    Form S-4, as filed with the SEC on December 22, 2000.                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
|        | 10 | .12         |  | Lease, dated as of August 31, 2001, between Hanover
    Equipment Trust 2001A (the 2001A Trust) and
    Hanover Compression Limited Partnership, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 10.64 to the Companys Quarterly
    Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
    September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
|        | 10 | .13         |  | Guarantee, dated as of August 31, 2001, made by the
    Company, Hanover Compression Limited Partnership, and certain
    subsidiaries, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.65 to
    the Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
|        | 10 | .14         |  | Participation Agreement, dated as of August 31, 2001, among
    Hanover Compression Limited Partnership, the 2001A Trust, and
    General Electric Capital Corporation, incorporated by reference
    to Exhibit 10.66 to the Companys Quarterly Report on
    Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
|        | 10 | .15         |  | Security Agreement, dated as of August 31, 2001, made by
    the 2001A Trust in favor Wilmington Trust FSB as agent,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.67 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
|        | 10 | .16         |  | Assignment of Leases, Rents and Guarantee from the 2001A Trust
    to Wilmington Trust FSB, dated as of August 31, 2001,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.68 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
|        | 10 | .17         |  | Lease, dated as of August 31, 2001, between Hanover
    Equipment Trust 2001B (the 2001B Trust) and
    Hanover Compression Limited Partnership, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 10.70 to the Companys Quarterly
    Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
    September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
|        | 10 | .18         |  | Guarantee, dated as of August 31, 2001, made by the
    Company, Hanover Compression Limited Partnership, and certain
    subsidiaries, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.71 to
    the Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  



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|Exhibit |    |            
|Number  |    | Description
|        |    |            
|        | 10 | .19         |  | Participation Agreement, dated as of August 31, 2001, among
    Hanover Compression Limited Partnership, the 2001B Trust, and
    General Electric Capital Corporation, incorporated by reference
    to Exhibit 10.72 to the Companys Quarterly Report on
    Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                             
|        | 10 | .20         |  | Security Agreement, dated as of August 31, 2001, made by
    the 2001B Trust in favor of Wilmington Trust FSB as agent,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.73 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                         
|        | 10 | .21         |  | Assignment of Leases, Rents and Guarantee from the 2001B Trust
    to Wilmington Trust FSB, dated as of August 31, 2001,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.74 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended September 30, 2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                        
|        | 10 | .22         |  | Amendment, dated as of December 15, 2003, to the 2000A and
    2000B Synthetic Guarantees, Credit Agreements and Participation
    Agreements, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.36 to
    the Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
    ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                             
|        | 10 | .23         |  | Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of Hanover Compressor
    Capital Trust, dated as of December 15, 1999, among the
    Company, as sponsor, Wilmington Trust Company, as property
    trustee, and Richard S. Meller, William S. Goldberg
    and Curtis A. Bedrich, as administrative trustees,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.5 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-30344)
    on Form S-3 filed with the SEC on February 14, 2000.
|        | 10 | .24         |  | Preferred Securities Guarantee Agreement, dated as of
    December 15, 1999, between the Company, as guarantor, and
    Wilmington Trust Company, as guarantee trustee,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.10 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-30344)
    on Form S-3 as filed with the SEC on February 14, 2000.                                                                                                                              
|        | 10 | .25         |  | Common Securities Guarantee Agreement, dated as of
    December 15, 1999, by the Company, as guarantor, for the
    benefit of the holders of common securities of Hanover
    Compressor Capital Trust, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 4.11 to the Companys Registration Statement
    (File No. 333-30344) on Form S-3 as filed with the SEC
    on February 14, 2000.                                                                                             
|        | 10 | .26         |  | Amended and Restated Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, dated
    January 31, 2003, made by the Company, certain of the
    Companys subsidiaries, JPMorgan Chase Bank, as
    administrative agent, and the lenders parties thereto,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
    year ended December 31, 2002.                                                                                          
|        | 10 | .27         |  | Purchase Agreement, dated as of July 11, 2000, among the
    Company, Hanover Compression Inc., Dresser-Rand Company and
    Ingersoll-Rand Company, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 99.2 to the Companys Current Report on
    Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September 14, 2000.                                                                                                                                                                                    
|        | 10 | .28         |  | Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 13, 2000,
    among the Company, Caddo Acquisition Corporation, and OEC
    Compression Corporation, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 10.51 to the Companys Quarterly Report on
    Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2000.                                                                                                                                                                                 
|        | 10 | .29         |  | Amendment No. 1 to Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as
    of November 14, 2000, by and among the Company, Caddo
    Acquisition Corporation and OEC Compression Corporation,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.43 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
    ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                       
|        | 10 | .30         |  | Amendment No. 2 to Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as
    of February 2, 2001, by and among the Company, Caddo
    Acquisition Corporation and OEC Compression Corporation ,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.44 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
    ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                       
|        | 10 | .31         |  | Purchase Agreement, dated June 28, 2001, among Schlumberger
    Technology Corporation, Schlumberger Oilfield Holdings Ltd.,
    Schlumberger Surenco S.A., Camco International Inc., the Company
    and Hanover Compression Limited Partnership, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 10.63 to the Companys Quarterly
    Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30,
    2001.                                                                                   



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|Exhibit |    |            
|Number  |    | Description
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|        | 10 | .32         |  | Schedule 1.2(c) to Purchase Agreement, dated
    June  28, 2001, among Schlumberger Technology
    Corporation, Schlumberger Oilfield Holdings Limited,
    Schlumberger Surenco S.A., Camco International Inc., the
    Company and Hanover Compression Limited Partnership,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the
    Companys Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the
    SEC on February 6, 2003.  
|        | 10 | .33         |  | Amendment No. 1, dated as of August 31, 2001, to
    Purchase Agreement among Schlumberger Technology Corporation,
    Schlumberger Oilfield Holdings Ltd., Schlumberger Surenco S.A.,
    Camco International Inc., the Company and Hanover Compression
    Limited Partnership, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 99.3 to the Companys Current Report on
    Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September 14, 2001.
|        | 10 | .34         |  | Most Favored Supplier and Alliance Agreement, dated
    August 31, 2001, among Schlumberger Oilfield Holdings
    Limited, Schlumberger Technology Corporation and Hanover
    Compression Limited Partnership, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 99.4 to the Companys Current Report on
    Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September 14, 2001.                                                                  
|        | 10 | .35         |  | Agreement by and among SJMB, L.P., Charles Underbrink,
    John L. Thompson, Belleli Energy S.r.l. and Hanover
    Compressor Company and certain of its subsidiaries dated
    September 20, 2002, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 10.62 to the Companys Annual Report on
    Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2002.                                                                          
|        | 10 | .36         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 1992 Stock Compensation Plan,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.63 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
    year ended December 31, 2002.                                                                                                                                                                                                               
|        | 10 | .37         |  | Hanover Compressor Company Senior Executive Stock Option Plan,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-24953)
    on Form S-1, as amended.                                                                                                                                                                                                             
|        | 10 | .38         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 1993 Management Stock Option Plan,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-24953)
    on Form S-1, as amended.                                                                                                                                                                                                              
|        | 10 | .39         |  | Hanover Compressor Company Incentive Option Plan, incorporated
    by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Companys
    Registration Statement (File No. 333-24953) on
    Form S-1, as amended                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
|        | 10 | .40         |  | Amendment and Restatement of the Hanover Compressor Company
    Incentive Option Plan, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 10.7 to the Companys Registration Statement
    (File No. 333-24953) on Form S-1, as
    amended.                                                                                                                                                                                     
|        | 10 | .41         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 1995 Employee Stock Option Plan,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-24953)
    on Form S-1, as amended.                                                                                                                                                                                                                
|        | 10 | .42         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 1995 Management Stock Option Plan,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-24953)
    on Form S-1, as amended.                                                                                                                                                                                                              
|        | 10 | .43         |  | Form of Stock Option Agreement for DeVille and McNeil,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.70 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
    year ended December 31, 2002.                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
|        | 10 | .44         |  | Form of Stock Option Agreements for Wind Bros, incorporated by
    reference to Exhibit 10.71 to the Companys Annual
    Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
    December 31, 2002.                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
|        | 10 | .45         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 1996 Employee Stock Option Plan,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-24953)
    on Form S-1, as amended.                                                                                                                                                                                                               
|        | 10 | .46         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 1997 Stock Option Plan, as amended,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.23 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-24953)
    on Form S-1, as amended.                                                                                                                                                                                                            
|        | 10 | .47         |  | 1997 Stock Purchase Plan, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 10.24 to the Companys Registration Statement
    (File No. 333-24953) on Form S-1, as
    amended.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 



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|Exhibit |    |            
|Number  |    | Description
|        |    |            
|        | 10 | .48         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 1998 Stock Option Plan, incorporated
    by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to the Companys
    Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
    September 30, 1998.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
|        | 10 | .49         |  | Hanover Compressor Company December 9, 1998 Stock Option
    Plan, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.33 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
    year ended December 31, 1998.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
|        | 10 | .50         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 1999 Stock Option Plan, incorporated
    by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Companys
    Registration Statement (File No. 333-32096) on
    Form S-8 filed with the SEC on March  10,
    2000.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
|        | 10 | .51         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 2001 Equity Incentive Plan,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the
    Companys Registration Statement (File No. 333-73904)
    on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on November 21,
    2001.                                                                                                                                                                                                              
|        | 10 | .52         |  | Hanover Compressor Company 2003 Stock Incentive Plan,
    incorporated by reference to the Companys Definitive Proxy
    Statement on Schedule 14A, as filed with the SEC on
    April 15, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
|        | 10 | .53         |  | Employment Letter with Chad C. Deaton, dated
    August 19, 2002, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 10.79 to the Companys Quarterly Report on
    Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30,
    2002.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
|        | 10 | .54         |  | Employment Letter with Peter Schreck, dated August 22,
    2000, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended March 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
|        | 10 | .55         |  | Employment Letter with Stephen York, dated March 6, 2002,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended March 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
|        | 10 | .56         |  | Separation Agreement with Mark Berg, dated February 27,
    2004, incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.74 to the
    Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
    ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
|        | 10 | .57         |  | Promissory Note and Indenture dated April 21, 2004 relating
    to $6,650,000 payable to Milberg, Weiss, Bershad,
    Hynes & Lerach LLP as Escrow Agent with respect to the
    settlement fund as defined in that certain Stipulation and
    Agreement and Settlement dated as of October 23, 2003,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended March 31, 2004.
|        | 10 | .58         |  | Employment Letter with Gary M. Wilson dated April 9,
    2004, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the
    Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
    quarter ended June 30, 2004.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
|        | 10 | .59         |  | Employment Letter with John E. Jackson dated October 5,
    2004, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the
    Companys Current Report on Form 8-K, as filed with
    the SEC on October 6, 2004.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
|        | 10 | .60         |  | Employment Letter with Lee E. Beckelman dated
    January 31, 2005, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 10.1 to the Companys Current Report on
    Form 8-K, as filed with the SEC on February 1,
    2005.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
|        | 10 | .61         |  | Employment Letter with Anita H. Colglazier dated April 4,
    2002 with explanatory note. *                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
|        | 10 | .62         |  | Description of Change of Control Arrangement with Hilary S.
    Ware.*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
|        | 12 | .1          |  | Computation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges.*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
|        | 14 | .1          |  | P.R.I.D.E. in Performance  Hanovers Guide to
    Ethical Business Conduct, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 14.1 to the Companys Annual Report on
    Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
|        | 14 | .2          |  | Amendment to the Companys Code of Ethics, incorporated by
    reference to the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K, as
    filed with the SEC on January 20, 2005.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
|        | 21 | .1          |  | List of Subsidiaries.*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
|        | 23 | .1          |  | Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          



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|Number  |    | Description
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|        | 31 | .1          |  | Certification of the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to
    Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of
    1934.*                                                                                                                                                
|        | 31 | .2          |  | Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to
    Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of
    1934.*                                                                                                                                                
|        | 32 | .1          |  | Certification of the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to
    18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to
    Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.*                                                                                                                   
|        | 32 | .2          |  | Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to
    18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to
    Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.*                                                                                                                   
|        | 99 | .1          |  | Letter from GKH partners regarding wind-up of GKH Investments,
    L.P. and GKH Private Limited, dated October 15, 2001,
    incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the
    Companys Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the
    SEC on October 18, 2001.                
|        | 99 | .2          |  | Letter from GKH Partners, L.P. to Mark S. Berg, Senior Vice
    President and General Counsel of the Company, dated
    November  12, 2002, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 99.1 to the Companys Current Report on
    Form 8-K filed with the SEC on November 15, 2002.
|        | 99 | .3          |  | Letter from GKH Partners, L.P. to Mark S. Berg, Senior Vice
    President and General Counsel of the Company, dated
    March 11, 2004, incorporated by reference to
    Exhibit 99.1 to the Companys Current Report on
    Form 8-K filed with the SEC on March 12, 2004.