WY Company Helping to Keep Cold Weather Areas Natural Gas Production Fields Air Clean and Reduce Ozone Levels

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(Free-Press-Release.com) November 28, 2011 -- PTG Industries Inc. of Rock Springs, WY is the Inventor and Manufacturer of a new piece of equipment, the Braxton Emission Control System (ECS) that drastically reduces natural gas emissions from production facilities in Wyoming and surrounding cold weather areas. The product is distributed through another WY company in Farson, WY, Valley Water Service, Inc.

Gas operated diaphragm heat trace pumps have been the standard for heating lines, well heads, and tanks to prevent freezing in cold weather. These pumps require 8 to 20 thousand cubic feet of natural gas per day to operate and that volume of gas historically has been vented to the atmosphere and added unnecessary amounts of greenhouse gases to Wyoming’s air. These pumps are commonly operated 7 to 8 months each year. The Braxton ECS unit captures this gas and stabilizes it into a usable gas stream that can then be re-used in the rest of the facility’s systems. This eliminates the 8 to 20 mcf/d of emissions and also can save the same volume in lease use gas in the literally thousands of pumps in use in Wyoming and the surrounding states natural gas production facilities today.

The Braxton ECS is proven technology. Valley Water Service Inc. has sold over 500 units, with another 300 on order. Over 120 units were installed and operated very efficiently last cold season before pumps were shut off for summer. These units are a simple and affordable solution to eliminating emissions from heat trace pumps while saving lease use gas. The Braxton ECS is very easy to install, has no electronics or moving parts, and it is the least expensive method of eliminating the emissions from the heat trace pump on the market today, as most all of the current users are getting 100% capture and re-use of the discharged gas off their heat trace pumps. All violently discharged gas is stabilized into a reusable gas stream and piped to pilots and burners and control gas for onsite use. There are internal float valves on the discharge ports to prevent glycol from contaminating the downstream system or a spill when a diaphragm ruptures or the pump has any internal leaks.

The Braxton ECS adapts with all existing equipment and the addition of one regulator and a check valve allows for continual normal operation. There are 3 different types of Braxton ECS units for different applications, the Braxton 500, the Braxton 1000, and the Braxton X. The X model is vertically mounted on a base and used where space is limited or can be used remotely from the pump. The 500 and 1000 models act as a base for the pump with a valved catch basin to capture any possible external pump leaks.

The Braxton units are an efficient, low cost, and simple solution to eliminating the largest fugitive gas emission source on most well sites during cold months. Many well operators have been piping this discharged gas to the atmosphere and some have tried to burn it in their flare combustor thereby wasting it and creating more NOX emissions. Payout on the Braxton at $3.00/mcf gas is generally less than one cold season.

For small facilities, such as wells with just an individual production unit, PTG now has an accessary piece of equipment called the “Luxury Burner”. This simple unit very easily U-bolts to the pilot and defuses the minimal amount of gas that isn’t used when the main burner is off. It burns the excess gas in the fire tube. With the Braxton and the addition of the Luxury Burner, any discharged gas from the heat trace pump will be 100% captured and all possible gas can be re-used for less than one third the costs of alternative systems.

Contact Terry Bly at Valley Water Service, Inc., t.bly@valleywaterservice.com or 307-231-4939 for more information.

More information can be found online at http://www.valleywaterservice.com

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