Demand for the OGT2500NG originates from several distinct markets.

One of the largest and most readily available are oil and natural gas well owners who must comply with increasingly stringent flare gas emission reduction regulations.

Flare gas is a waste gas, essentially a by-product of oil and gas extraction.

Traditionally, it has been disposed of by “flaring”, a burning process that disposes of the gas, but that also releases air pollutants and greenhouse gases.

Yet many flare gas wells in large production fields are located within mere kilometers of one or more electrical power grids.

This can make it economically feasible to turn waste gas into electricity that can then be sold.

As a result, McGuffy Power’s business model supports joint ventures with owners of flare gas wells.

So perhaps most significantly, the OGT2500NG can create an additional revenue stream for oil and gas producers because it can operate using otherwise flared gas to generate marketable electrical power.

Because of the environmental concerns, governments have increasingly demanded that flaring be reduced and ultimately eliminated.

The OGT2500NG provides an economic and environmentally friendly mechanism to achieve this goal, while concurrently generating electrical power for on-site use or merchant sales.

Stranded natural gas typically represents wells that are too distant from gas pipelines to be economically tied into.

Often, they occur when companies drill for oil, but find only natural gas or uneconomic oil supplies.

Sometimes, under these circumstances, the portability of the OGT2500NG can allow a power generation facility to be established at the wellhead, which creates a revenue source on a previously non-revenue generating site.

McGuffy Power’s business model allows for the outright purchase of stranded gas wells or for joint ventures with well owners.

Each of McGuffy’s power units’ megawatt output are able to supply approximately several thousand homes. The 400 kW unit, for example, will provide standby power for apartment complexes as well as other medium to large buildings. The 1.2 MW unit can handle such commercial operations as major hotels or office buildings, the 2.5 MW can handle large hospitals, the 3.5 MW, arenas and sport complexes, and the 6 MW can handle significant government facility loads. Utilities searching for relief from transmission congestion and requiring ancillary services can deploy mobile units closer to the load thus deferring transmission builds. The need for new electrical generation capabilities is worldwide. Our mobile systems allow electric power to be rapidly deployed immediately almost anywhere in the world.

McGuffy Power’s power units are exclusive and unique. Unique because they operate with aircraft engines to deliver their electric power - this provides the advantages of less platform size and weight, while supplying greater power output. These platforms all share a military spec heritage, and are as follows:

The TGC (UK) 400 kW draws its pedigree from turbo prop heritage.

The population of these engines worldwide is in the tens of thousands, providing multiple units of each. More importantly, the supply of requisite spare parts and trained service personnel is already in place around the world, primarily as a result of their use in global military and commercial fleets. In assembling these mobile emergency electric power solutions, McGuffy Power has made every effort to deliver the best equipment possible and stands by all its exceptional products.

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Users of the OGT2500NG may include remote facilities, manufacturers, universities, hospitals, large apartment blocks, or office parks – locations that oft times require near-term power supplies due to rapid expansion with which the local utilities’ distribution network cannot keep pace. Base load requirements can be met by one or more OGT2500NGs running continuously between the unit’s three-year maintenance cycle. The package’s robustness and efficiency make it attractive in cases where a spinning reserve is required or rewarded (i.e. through local utility subsidies). Furthermore, with its ability to come up to full output within 60 seconds of startup, the OGT2500NG is perfect not only for backup power, but for integration with peak monitoring systems that immediately initialize it’s operation upon pre-determined demand and rate setpoints in order to reduce a facility’s overall expenditure on energy. In this configuration, the OGT2500NG operates only during the times when buying electricity from the grid is most expensive; in some locales, additional subsidies are available to the user in exchange for reducing stress on the power network during peak times.

In essence, applications can extend to a wide array of businesses that have a need for a steady supply of both electricity and thermal heat. Thermal heat can be recovered in one or more ways, and one approach is to request that a Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) be fitted at time of order. For example, a large facility could use an OGT2500NG to produce its power needs while also meeting HVAC needs by using produced steam to heat its buildings and, in conjunction with existing absorption chillers, use the same steam to provide for cooling.

The turbine engine design used by the OGT2500NG has gained in excess of 50 million operating hours, and is well proven as a robust and reliable unit. The world supply of these engines is numbered in the thousands. The patents pending owned by McGuffy Power’s partner sharply reduces power related alternate uses for these engines. Hence, McGuffy Power can rely upon long-term supply and engine availability. The low costs of development, quick time to market, and patent pending protection, position the OGT2500NG as unique in the industry.

Ongoing run testing of the OGT2500NG is being done to establish protocols for extending the life of the unit to exceed industry norms for Time-Between-Overhauls (TBO). Typical hours of operation between major overhauls are in the range of 15 to 20 thousand hours. McGuffy Power is targeting a 25,000 hour TBO.

McGuffy Power has developed a state of the art control system for the OGT2500NG, capable of all of the challenges required by the market today. Remote monitoring capability is included.