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What is Gas to Power?

Gas to Power or Natural Gas to Power, is the process of using natural gas produced at the well site to generate electricity - then selling the electricity to the electric grid or using the power at a nearby gas gathering or gas processing facility.

Stranded Gas Solutions

Our "Integrated" CHP Systems (Cogeneration and Trigeneration) Plants 
Have Very  High Efficiencies, Low Fuel Costs & Low Emissions

The Effective Heat Rate is Approximately 
4100 btu/kW & System Efficiency is 92% Plant.

The CHP System below is Rated at 900 kW and Features:
(2) Natural Gas Engines @ 450 kW each on one Skid with Optional 
Selective Catalytic Reduction system that removes Nitrogen Oxides to "non-detect."

Our CHP Systems may be the best solution for your company's economic and environmental sustainability as we
"upgrade" natural gas to clean power with our clean power generation solutions. 

Our Emissions Abatement solutions reduce Nitrogen Oxides to "non-detect" and can be 
installed and operated in most EPA non-attainment regions! 

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What is "Stranded Gas?"

Stranded Gas, also referred to as "stranded natural gas," refers to natural gas that has been discovered but has not, or will not be developed due to their location or the economics of getting the natural gas delivered to the marketplace.

Did you know that approximately 40% of the world's available natural gas reserves are classified as Stranded Gas?

The Department of Energy estimates that there are 3,000 Tcf of Stranded Gas world-wide! 

Stranded Gas may be stranded - or become stranded in the future, for several reasons; 

          *  the nearest natural gas pipeline may be too far from the well in terms of the economics of running a new pipeline.
          *  the volume of natural gas produced may not be of sufficient quantities for the natural gas pipeline company.
          *  the quality of the natural gas produced may not meet the "pipeline quality gas" specifications of the natural gas pipeline
              company.
          *  the amount of natural gas produced from the well may decline over the years to amounts that do not meet the natural gas 
              pipeline's minimum amounts. 

among other reasons.

We provide solutions for oil and gas companies with Stranded Gas. 

One of our solutions for oil and gas companies with Stranded Gas is to use the Stranded Gas as fuel that generates clean electricity with one of our "gas to power" solutions using gas turbine generators.  Our affiliated company manufactures gas turbine gensets.  For as little as $900/kW (plus shipping costs and any related set-up costs) you could be generating revenues with one of our gas turbine generators!

Natural gas pipelines have transported natural gas safely, reliably, and economically to the marketplace whenever large reservoirs of natural gas are found in locations where there were existing pipelines.  Even for new natural gas fields, where there are large reservoirs and supplies of natural gas, pipelines were laid to transport the natural gas to markets.  However, natural gas supplies from easy to find, and easy to produce fields have been on the decline. This leaves the "stranded gas" from the fields that have not been developed due to the economics, location, or the supply was not large enough. "Stranded gas" wells and reservoirs are becoming increasingly attractive opportunities as we can make the stranded gas a new profit center for your company.

We can help your company turn unproductive, zero revenue stranded gas assets into economic cash flows and a new source or revenues.  Stranded gas wells with a nearby electric transmission line with a minimum production of approximately 70,000 cubic feet of natural gas per day - can become a new profit center with our assistance!  

Do you have a minimum of 400 mcf/day from your stranded gas well?  If yes, we can install an affiliated company's gas turbine generator and generate about 1.0 MW of electricity, 24 x 7 x 365.

We can take Stranded Gas gas wells that have been plugged & abandoned years ago, and make them productive and profitable by taking the Stranded Gas and placing  one or more of our power plants at or near the site - and using the Stranded Gas as the fuel to generate power, selling the electricity to the electric grid - thereby creating a new profit center from shut-in wells.  Shut-in natural gas wells can be made productive, with new revenues from generating our gas to power solutions.  Or, if there is a nearby commercial or industrial operation that needs hot water or steam, we can develop a cogeneration power plant as well, selling them the thermal energy and the power to the electric grid.

It's much easier to transport electrons long distances, than it is to transport natural gas long distances.

Alternatively, depending on the location, we may be able to place LNG equipment near Stranded Gas wells and convert the natural gas to Liquefied Natural Gas, and then transport the LNG to a nearby market.

We provide Flare Gas Recovery, Vapor Recovery Units and "Stranded Gas" solutions. We offer turnkey, "vendor-neutral" power/energy project development products and services.  Unlike most companies, we are equipment supplier/vendor neutral. This means we help our clients select the best equipment for their specific application. This approach provides our customers with superior performance, decreased operating expenses and increased return on investment.

Our company provides turn-key project solutions that include all or part of the following: 

• Project Engineering Feasibility & Economic Analysis Studies  

• Engineering, Procurement and Construction

• Environmental Engineering & Permitting 

• Project Funding & Financing Options; including Equity Investment, Debt Financing, Lease and Municipal Lease

• Shared/Guaranteed Savings Program with No Capital Investment from Qualified Clients 

• Project Commissioning 

• 3rd Party Ownership and Project Development

• Long-term Service Agreements

• Operations & Maintenance 

• Green Tag (Renewable Energy Credit, Carbon Dioxide Credits, Emission Reduction Credits) Brokerage Services; Application and Permitting

We also provide midstream natural gas and upstream oil and gas products and services, again, on a vendor-neutral basis.  This includes the following products, services and solutions that include: 

• Gas Gathering System Sales

• Flare Gas Recovery

• Gas Compressors

• Glycol Dehydration

• Glycol Dehydrators

• Heater Treaters

• Natural Gas Measurement

• Vapor Recovery Units

• Stranded Gas

• Engineering and Economic Feasibility Studies 

• Project Design & Permitting

• Project Construction

• Project Funding & Financing Options

• Operations & Maintenance 

What is a Vapor Recovery Unit?

A vapor recovery unit is a device that captures or recovers valuable volatile organic compounds and other rich gas streams that may otherwise be a significant environmental pollutant or hazardous air pollutant.  A well designed vapor recovery unit can pay for itself in less than 3 years and simultaneously mitigate a company's exposure to environmental liabilities.

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What is Natural Gas Storage?

There are periods of time in peak periods of natural gas use, that a natural gas company (pipeline or LDC) may not be able to keep up with these peak demand periods.  Natural gas storage is a way to help provide for the natural gas reserves or natural gas supplies that are needed during these peak demand periods.  Having strategically-located natural gas storage capabilities can assist natural gas pipelines or LDCs provide the natural gas supply when their customers demand. 

America's need for natural gas continues to grow.

Recent governments studies conclude that demand for clean-burning natural gas has continued to rise.  In the last 20 years, natural gas consumption has risen nearly 25%.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates there are over 2,100 Trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of "technically recoverable natural gas" reserves in the United States, as reported in the EIA's 2010 Annual Energy Outlook.  In 2009, the United States used just over 22 Trillion cubic feet of natural gas, making the U.S. one of the global leaders in natural gas consumption. This means the U.S. has enough natural gas supply to last about 100 years. 

With greater demand comes greater need to be able to store natural gas.  In the past 20 years, natural gas storage has increased less than 5%.  This creates a serious constraint that can impact our nation by failing to keep up with natural gas supply and demand.  Existing natural gas storage facilities will not be able to keep up with the demand for natural gas during increasingly greater periods of increasing demand, which could cost all consumers of natural gas billions of dollars.

More Natural Gas Storage is Needed

There is a critical need for new high-volume natural gas storage facilities to meet the escalating demand for natural gas which will provide predictability of natural gas supply and reduce or eliminate volatility of natural gas prices during peak periods.  Natural gas storage "balance" the load - or supply and demand requirements of all natural gas consumers and provides the "cushion" needed for large supplies of natural gas to serve all consumers during periods of peak demand.

Natural Gas Storage

Natural gas storage can take place in a number of underground natural gas facilities.  From the time the natural gas is produced, it may be stored temporarily in underground natural gas storage facilities that may be one or more of the following;  depleted oil or natural gas fields/reservoirs, salt dome caverns/salt dome storage or former aquifers. 

Most of the natural gas storage in the U.S. takes place in naturally-occurring natural gas or oil reservoirs that have been depleted through production.  An underground gas storage facility must contain enough “base gas” or “cushion gas” that provides adequate pressure to re-produce and extract the natural gas.

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How we make and distribute electricity is changing! 

The electric power generation, transmission and distribution system (the electric "grid") is changing and evolving from the electric grid of the 19th and 20th centuries, which was inefficient, highly-polluting, very expensive and “dumb.”  

The "old" way of generating and distributing energy resembles this slide:

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Hubbert's Peak Oil Predictions Now Proving True?

Marion King Hubbert was a geologist and scientist who worked at Shell Oil company's research lab in Houston, Texas.  Hubbert made several important contributions to geology, geophysics and petroleum geology.  Hubbert is most recognized for the "Hubbert Curve" and " Hubbert Peak Theory" which is now referred to as " Peak Oil. 

Hubbert's life work determined that the world has a finite amount of petroleum that can be produced.  (Similarly, there is a finite amount of coal.) Many scientists and engineers believe we have reached Hubbert's "peak oil" limit.  Hubbert's espouses that when 50% of domestic crude oil production has been reached, that there will be such significant upward demand on prices of the limited supplies of oil production, that the U.S. economy will experience severe economic, social, and political turmoil.

Hubbert's Peak Oil predictions have proven to be true and this is validated as the U.S. in the early 1970's produced about 60% of its' oil demand and imported 40%.  That equation has flipped since then, because our domestic oil production has been on the decline since 1970, so now, due to our declining domestic oil production, we have to import 60% of our oil supplies, to meet our country's oil/energy demands.

The Next Oil Shock Could be the "mother" of All Oil Shocks

How severe our economic calamity and next "oil shock" will depend upon a number of factors, including when this occurs, as well as the following:

1.  the dependence of the individual country upon its own crude oil production to meet its energy needs and to subsidize consumer imports; 

2.  the rate of relative decline in crude oil production; 

3.  the degree of difficulty encountered in replacing missing energy inputs; 

4.  the degree to which our country had prepared in advance for this inevitable geological and economic calamity.

Examples of past "oil shocks" and the economic and political calamities that followed:

United States: Our peak crude oil production of domestic oil occurred in 1970; the first "oil shock" and oil crisis followed in 1973 with the Arab/OPEC Oil Embargo.

Iran: Their peak crude oil production occurred in 1974; They had their islamic revolution 1979 that overturned government and replaced it with radical islam.

Soviet Union: Their peak crude oil production was in 1989; what happened next? 
Their country disintegrated and the collapse of the Soviet Union followed in 1991. 

Indonesia: Their peak crude oil production was in 1991; their financial and government crisis followed in 1997.

Iraq: Iraq's crude oil production was in 1989; they then invaded Kuwait (for their oil) in 1991.

Using Mr. Hubbert's predictions, that beginning around 2000  we would see peak (global) oil production, then, if the country's not weaning themselves off of their oil addiction, and had not begun making the switch to renewable energy, that the negative economic and political calamities would soon follow, including ever-increasing prices of energy that is from fossil fuels. 

Now is the time to begin weaning ourselves off of fossil fuels and making the transition to and increasing the use of renewable energy. If you don't believe in climate change, or global warming, GREAT! Join us in the switch to renewable energy and a fossil-free economy!

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America's Clear and Present Danger

America Has INCREASED its' Dependence on Foreign 
Sources of Energy by 50% Since 1973.

America is even more "addicted" to foreign oil today, than we were in 1973 - 1974 when OPEC, Saudi Arabia and other suppliers from the Middle-East  stopped selling us their fossil fuels, and created a significant blow to our economy.

According to Monty Goodell, Founder and Chairman of the Renewable Energy Institute, "our increased dependence and reliance on foreign energy supplies represents a Clear and Present Danger to our national security, our economy, and the lives and livelihood of every American. Energy - including the energy we use from imported fossil fuels, is the very "lifeblood" of the American economy as it is for every industrialized country.  An economy dies without it's lifeblood of energy. This Clear and Present Danger we face is far more serious than the problems related to greenhouse gas emissions.  And while greenhouse gas emissions are very serious issue, in the long-term, pales in comparison to America's vital national security interests and America's economic stability in the short term.  For this reason alone, America needs to transition away from its addiction to foreign energy supplies. And America's abundant renewable energy resources such as the energy we receive from the sun, and renewable energy technologies such as concentrated solar power (CSP) plants - can supply 100% of America's power requirements with a concentrating solar power plant measuring 75 miles by 75 miles, located in the Southwest U.S.  By generating America's power from concentrating solar power plants, America resolves its' short-term Clear and Present Danger as it relates to importing its energy from foreign countries, and the long-term problems relating to greenhouse gas emissions."

Continuing, Mr. Goodell states that "too many Americans have forgotten what happened to us in 1973, when the Arabs and OPEC brought the United States economy to a screeching halt during the OPEC Oil Embargo.  This happened because they (mainly the country of Saudi Arabia) disagreed with our foreign policy and is the reason why they "turned off the tap" of our need for their oil supplies. When Saudi Arabia and OPEC stopped the vital flow of oil to our country in 1973, they caused an "oil shock" that severely and negatively impacted our economy. 

Mr. Goodell's question for us to ponder is, "do these countries who sell us 60% of our daily energy requirements, like us and our foreign policy, or might they leverage our addiction to their fossil fuels, and turn off the tap to make us adjust or revise our foreign policy??  Like any addict, America's foreign policy may be held hostage to its addiction, and in this case, our addiction to foreign oil, may over-ride our national interests."

Have American's forgotten the gas shortages and long lines at 
their gas stations to get gas during the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973? 

"Apparently so."  Mr. Goodell states that "in 1973, America was 'addicted' and 'over the barrel' of foreign oil to the amount of 40%.  Forty percent of our energy 'needs' in 1973 came from countries - many of which didn't like us then, and I'm afraid, many of them still don't.  The difference between 1973 and today - is that today we receive 50% MORE foreign oil now than we did in 1973.  And now we know about the problems relating to greenhouse gas emissions that we didn't know then.  America needs to change course, and change course now, in terms of its' energy supplies and how we keep America's economy strong, without the threat of being held hostage to a middle-east tyrant or regime, that could once again, turn on us, and turn off our supply of foreign oil." 

Remember ????

"Sadly," Monty Goodell continues, "most Americans have forgotten the long lines of people waiting in their cars - lined up and waiting for gasoline at their nearby gas station, with lines that were many blocks long.  And, after waiting 4-5 hours, many even waiting overnight in many places, to finally take their turn to fill up their car with gasoline, only to find that the gas station had run out of gas." 

"Let me Repeat.... That was 1973 when we imported 40% of our daily energy requirements in the form of crude oil from overseas, and from foreign countries - and many of these from countries that don't like us.

Today, over 35 years later, America has yet to learn the lesson.  We cannot continue our reliance on energy from foreign countries that supply us with 60% of the crude oil that our refineries use as a feedstock for producing gasoline and diesel fuel for our cars and trucks comes from overseas. 

America is "over the barrel" and it's not our barrel, but the barrels of oil that we are addicted by and owned by other countries.  Why have we not learned the lessons we needed to learn in 1973 when we were cut-off from the vital energy supplies we need? 

Countries like China, are growing rapidly, and have an insatiable need for crude oil. China, with their booming economy, is increasingly growing in its clout and control over international supplies of crude oil - whether they do this through their ability to buy as much oil as they need on a daily basis, or whether they simply but American drilling rigs, technology, and explore and produce oil and gas from their own fields. China, is buying large amounts of oil for their country, and causing upward pricing on declining supplies. What happens if Russia, with all of their oil and natural gas, along with China and Venezuela, with or without the help of OPEC, decided to NOT sell oil to us????

To be sure, greenhouse gas emissions are a problem, and to some, greenhouse gas emissions are also a Clear and Present Danger, but not to the extent that it presents an imminent Clear and Present Danger. 

America's reliance for 60% of our energy "needs" coming from foreign suppliers is un-acceptable.

The "driver" to get America to begin reducing and eliminating fossil fuel use should be our nation's national security and the welfare and safety of its citizens. And this can all begin with developing and investing in our own renewable energy resources and renewable energy technologies, let's start by putting solar on every rooftop that has a clear and unobstructed view of the Southern sky. See www.RooftopPV.com  or  www.DistributedPV.com  for more information.  Let's create incentives begin with adopting a national "Feed In Tariff" as Germany did in 1990. 

America, we simply do NOT have the luxury of time on our hands.  We need to end our dependence and reliance on foreign fossil fuels, especially from countries that don't like us! We need to rapidly begin expanding renewable energy resources and renewable energy technologies from our vast and abundant renewable energy resources, such as; solar, solar energy systems, solar cogeneration, solar trigeneration, "solar on every roof," waste to energy, waste to fuel, biomass gasification, B100 Biodiesel, Biomethane, Synthesis Gas, geothermal, E100 Ethanol (from sugar cane and NOT from corn), and wind, where it makes economic sense."

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Our following EcoGeneration technologies, including our Biomethane, B100 Biodiesel and Synthesis Gas Fuels Generated from our "Waste to Fuel" technologies are Carbon Free Energy and Pollution Free Power solutions that will:

* forever change the way energy is generated and used.

* eliminate or greatly reduce our customer's electric demand charges and electric expenses.

* slow, stop and eventually reverse climate change by reducing and then eliminating anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions - of which carbon dioxide emissions makes up 80% of all greenhouse gas emissions.

* reduce and eventually eliminate the use of coal and other fossil fuels.

* reduce the need for inefficient and expensive central power plants owned by utility companies. 

* promote energy independence.

* end America's dependence on oil from OPEC and other countries in the Middle-East, Venezuela and end our need for importing natural gas from Russia.

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