Opinion ID: 2509156
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 33

Heading: The screw compressor

Text: 102. By statutory definition, the screw compressor a different type of device. A compressor is a device associated with processing or transporting natural gas which mechanically increases the pressure of the natural gas. Wyo. Stat. Ann. ง 39-14-201(a)(v). We conclude that the screw compressor is such a device. We must construe the statute as a whole, giving effect to every word, clause, and sentence, and we construe together all parts of the statute in pari materia so that no part will be inoperative or superfluous. Fall v. State, 963 P.2d 981, 983 (Wyo. 1998). It follows that the screw compressor cannot be both a compressor and a dehydrator, because that would make the legislative distinction superfluous. The screw compressor is a compressor. 103. Our disposition of the screw compressor is further supported by the fact that water which condenses in the vicinity of the screw compressor is removed elsewhere. Findings of Fact, ถ58. 104. Our disposition of the screw compressor also disposes of the argument that the booster compressors act as dehydrators. They, too, are compressors.