Reduce Greenhouse Gases – An Environmentally Friendly Alternative Process For Hydraulic Fracturing Using Natural GasMillennium Stimulation Services has developed a process that allows hydraulic fracturing to both reduce greenhouse gases and provide a completely waterless solution. Using natural gas as a fracturing fluid provides an environmentally friendly solution, as well as an economically sound alternative for producers. Calgary, AB (PRWEB) - The Initiative to Reduce Greenhouse Gases (GHG) Millennium Stimulation Services has set forth an initiative to reduce greenhouse gases through environmentally friendly alternatives to the conventional hydraulic fracturing methods. Using Energized Natural Gas (ENG) allows Millennium to not only provides the option to go both waterless and reduced emissions, it also offers economic benefits to the client deploying the technology. There is a growing demand to reduce greenhouse gases in general with stronger efforts to push further restrictions on the oil and gas industry. Millennium is currently undergoing project development to build both equipment and production plant. It is the end goal for Millennium to bring LNG to the market with the capacity to use everything it produces to deploy a rapid replacement strategy. The end goal being to replace the conventional fracturing fluids using LNG throughout North America. Reducing Greenhouse Gases by the Tonne To help understand, the majority of greenhouse gases are produced via the venting and flaring process. This occurs upon recovery of the gas from the reservoir. Often times, the resource in the reservoir is mixed with the fluid used to produce a fracture. This creates a solution that is not suitable to meet sales gas specification. The higher concentrations of unusable fluids are closest to the well-bore. This allows the producer to flow these fluids to the surface first. These are then vented or flared until the reservoir is producing volumes that meet sales gas specification. To Illustrate: No Venting or Flaring The Average Vehicle
Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Presenting a Scenario
Waterless Operations Means Significant Reduction in Associated Carbon Emitters The cost of using water is often believed to be a fraction of what it may cost to use a gas to pump into a fracture. This is not true. While acquiring the water itself is fairly cost efficient, the associated costs are not. These costs are spread among the hauling of water, to treatment, to recycling and disposal. The related greenhouse gas emissions that accompany these costs have everything to do with hauling the water from acquisition to deployment. The benefit of a waterless operation is in of itself an environmental benefit as well as an increase to production efficiency. This however will cover just the reduction of greenhouse gases associated. To Illustrate: Waterless Operations Hauling Water
Hauling LNG
Positive Economic Impact The government of Canada has been reducing greenhouse gases while keeping a constant economic growth to this point. From 2005 to 2012, Canadian GHG emissions have decreased by 5.1 per cent while the economy has grown by 10.6 per cent. While many other technologies and potential solutions are being presented regularly, many of them come at a high cost. This is not the case for ENG. Environmentally Friendly
No Additional Infrastructure Required
Economically Beneficial to the Producers
Canada’s LNG Infrastructure Currently, most of our LNG projects under development are focused on the export of the product. While our resources are abundant, it is counter-intuitive in terms of achieving our goals. The problem here however is not the exporting; rather, it is the fact that we have yet to look within our borders for a means to capitalize on using LNG to benefit us here in Canada. Not only is the resource available to us, but we know it is a much cleaner by about 50% in relation to greenhouse gas emissions produced by using coal. The Future of Energy and LNG
Source: Canada’s Natural Gas – CAPP SOURCE: PRWeb View original release here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/08/prweb12931479.htm |