Powering a plant with its own natural gas

For this remote North Dakota oil & gas processing plant, the prospect of getting utilities from the grid was still years away. To make matters worse, the plant was struggling to keep emissions from flaring within state regulations - and one of its motor control centers had a harmonic issue. Finding the reliable, year-round power source they badly needed was going to be tricky, but Aggreko and our team of experts were up to the challenge.

Our engineering team worked closely with the site operators to identify, quantify and isolate the problem in the motor control center.

Additionally, our engineering team designed an ingenious system that provided 100% redundancy, producing 98.5% uptime while still reducing the flaring.

Our solution captured some of the natural gas that would have been flared and used it to fuel the generators that ran the site.

We were the only vendors that could implement the project using several smaller Tier 4 generators, and all our diesel-fuelled generators meet EPA standards for reducing diesel particulate matter and nitrogen oxide (NOx). We set the operators up with a reliable system that allowed the customer to control the pumps remotely and make significant cost savings. The extra monitoring from our Louisiana control room gave the customer peace of mind that the pumping facility was always in good working condition.