Gas flaring
mitigation solution

Eco-friendly

Complete flaring elimination at locations with a minimum of 350 MCF flared a day. No CO2 emissions caused by flaring where EZ Smartgrid™ System is deployed.

Meets new regulations

Meet rapidly growing regulations and tightening environmental guidelines without interruptions of the operation by reducing harmful emissions.

Profitable

Zero upfront cost to producers. Additional royalties to landowners by bringing flared gas to market on-site without building physical pipeline infrastructure.

In 2020, the World Bank estimated that annual Gas flaring had increasedto 5.3 trillion ft3 of natural gas. Highest in a decade.

5.3 trillion cubic feet

of natural gas are flared or vented annually

Equivalent to 25%

of U.S. yearly gas consumption

$30.6 billion

is the approximate cost of flared natural gas according to the World Bank

More Than 400 million tons

of carbon dioxide equivalent are emitted into the atmosphere annually

Problems with existing flaring solutions

The economic problem

Most popular existing flaring solutions are NGl recovery, striping natural gas liquids from natural gas, and liquifying natural gas (LNG) to deliver it to the market. Both of these solutions are very expensive on CAPEX and may not prove to be economically feasible. Dealing with liquids is very expensive when thinking about transportation, stability, and price. Because of inconsistent gas volumes and pressure, it is also hardly possible to predict the project’s economic side. Power generation does not prove to work by itself because of regulatory difficulties to sell power to the grid and lack of power line infrastructure.
 

The problem of slow infrastructure development

It may take a few years to develop and build all needed infrastructure to solve the problem of flaring on the scale such as gathering lines, pipelines, power lines, gas processing facilities, etc. Usually, when it is built the problem still exists because of the higher production volume and, therefore, the higher number of flaring emissions.

The environmental problem

Some of the solutions do not solve the problem of flaring completely. NGL recovery, for example, just strips rich BTU liquids from flared gas, but lean gas flaring still occurs. This type of flaring reduces CO2 emissions by an insignificant amount. Flaring releases significant greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere and doesn’t produce any work (useful energy) as a result.

Reducing CO2 emissions

of flared gas by up to 70 % With Smartgrid™ system

EZ Blockchain developed a plug-and-play solution to turn natural gas flaring into monetization. EZ Blockchain deploys the EZ Smartgrid™ Flaring Mitigation System (FMS) right on the oil well pads to turn wasted natural gas into a new revenue stream, meeting new environmental regulations along the way

EZ Smartgrid™ Flaring Mitigation System

It consists of a mobile gas engine generator which converts wasted, flared gas into electricity which is immediately used onsite to power the  mobile data center, EZ Smartbox.

EZ Blockchain developed a mobile flaring mitigation system available to be deployed right on the  oil well pad to reduce flaring.

This unique system does not require connection to the grid, all electricity produced is used onsite.

Instead of flaring wasted associated gas can be harnessed by gas engine generator to produce electricity, then the electricity is used to power mobile data center on the well pad without distributing energy to the grid.

Benefits

Environmental

Complete flaring elimination at locations with a minimum of 350 MCF flared a day. No CO2 emissions are caused by flaring where EZ Smartgrid™ System is deployed.

 

Regulatory

Meet rapidly growing regulations and tighten environmental guidelines without interruptions of the operation by reducing harmful emissions.

 

Economic

Zero upfront cost to producers. Additional royalties to landowners by bringing flared gas to market on-site without building physical pipeline infrastructure.

 

Facility

facility: upstate ny location

Objective

A power generation company was looking for a solution to diversify its revenue and build a demand response system that could consume power at the off-peak hours.

Solution

EZ Blockchain redesigned the mobile data center with a unique shelving system and airflow system to bring its capacity up to 2.5 MWs, installing 720 x Bitmain S17 type miners. Our engineering team had to design a separate electrical room built from scratch to make the work of the electrical operations team simpler and safer. The design of the mobile data center was divided into 6 separate sections, each having its own autonomous electrical surge protection infrastructure to operate each section independently.

The company’s team developed a simple from an operational perspective but complex from an engineering perspective filter louver door in each section. This optimized the effort of changing filters on a constant basis, reducing the amount of labor hours needed to perform the work. 

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