Green Field Energy Services and GE signs natural gas powered equipment agreement

US-based Green Field Energy Services and GE Oil & Gas have signed an agreement to provide low-cost and cleaner burning power generation solutions to the oil and gas industry.

As a part of the deal, GE will supply electric submersible pumps (ESPs) used in artificial lift systems to produce oil and fluids, modular CNG In A Box compressed natural gas systems and LNG production systems.

Green Field will combine these technologies, along with its fuelling technologies, to decrease a site’s environmental footprint and replace diesel fuel for power generation.

Both companies have also signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to conduct research and development to create technologies that are more efficient when used together.

As a part of the deal, Green Field will provide its proprietary technology and bi-fuel capability for use on its Turbine Frac Pumps, while GE will supply turbines to be used in testing.

Green Field Energy Services chairman and CEO, Michel Moreno, said the company’s turbine driven systems are better than other natural gas powered solutions due to the bi-fuel engines, which run 100% on field gas.

"Therefore, making it simpler for our customers to convert from diesel to natural gas as a fuel source," added Moreno.

Green Field will also conduct pilot programmes to test power generation of oil and gas equipment using natural gas produced onsite in the field.

In the first pilot programme, to be conducted by the end of 2013, the company will provide oilfield power on a SandRidge well, located in the Mississippian formation in Oklahoma, with 100% field gas produced by that well.

In the second pilot programme, scheduled in the first quarter of 2013, Green Field will use four 1MW turbine engines running on field gas to power a 1,500 horsepower land drilling rig for Apache in the Granite Wash play in Texas.

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Image: Green Field, GE to provide low-cost and cleaner burning power generation solutions to the oil and gas industry. Photo: courtesy of GE Oil & Gas.