Powering a plant with its own natural gas
Powering a plant with its own natural gas
- The challenge
Powering exploration and production with utilities years away
- The solution
A highly reliable system fueled by the site’s own natural gas
- The impact
Maximized uptime, minimal flaring and harmonized MCC
Client:HESS
Location:Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA
Sectors:Oil and gas
The Challenge
Oil and gas exploration without grid power
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.
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The Solution
A system fueled by the site’s own natural gas
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.