Thanks for that. Looks like Ferus wasn’t first.
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Separately this week, Houston-based Baker Hughes (NYSE:BHI) said that its Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations subsidiary has converted a fleet of its Rhino brand hydraulic fracturing units to bifuel (dual fuel) pumps, and that it recently completed a hydraulic fracturing job in the Eagle Ford Shale for Cheyenne Petroleum.
Pierce Dehring of Baker Hughes outlined a QSK50 conversion program at late September’s BBP Summit in Houston.
Baker Hughes had by then converted four units in Canada using two different conversion systems, and ten units in the U.S. with ComAp kits, which according to Dehring were fully commissioned and job ready. A job was to commence in early October, he said.
Dehring said that a typical South Texas fracking operation could consume 6,000 gallons of diesel per day, with each engine consuming as much as 110 gallons of diesel per hour. The dual fuel conversions “easily” displaced 60% of the diesel with LNG. Baker Hughes cited 65% displacement at the Eagle Ford shale in its release this week.