The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a $4 million dollar grant to the Dresser-Rand Company to create and test a pilot-scale supersonic carbon dioxide compressor. The federal funding could mean new jobs at the Dresser’s plants in Olean and Wellsville. Dresser-Rand produces and designs compressors and turbines with applications to the oil and gas and process industries. Their largest plant is in Olean.