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Wednesday, May 15, 2024
In a first of its kind activity in South Africa, Kinetiko has successfully demonstrated power production from a gas well at Amersfoort in cooperation with FFS Refiners. On May 5, natural gas, supplied by a single well, Korhaan-1 (aka The Beast) in the vicinity of Amersfoort in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa, ran a gas generator linked to a newly built gas train.
The gas generator was a 12-cylinder CAT, capable of 1.2MW output, and supplied and containerized by Barloworld of Johannesburg. The gas generator was disassembled after the 4-day trial and returned to Barloworld.
Kinetiko Energy is developing an energy transition solution for South Africa focused on commercializing advanced shallow conventional gas projects in the Mpumalanga, Freestate, and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces.
This pioneering demonstration proves the ability of the company’s high-quality natural gas to be utilized commercially. The calibrated gas quality meter measured close to 99% methane and 1% nitrogen during the flow periods. KKO intends to produce LNG from this specific field, which will require GTP to energize the eventual production wellfield (pumps, instrumentation, cryoboxes, etc.) off-grid. Numerous gas samples were collected for lab analysis.
The company, along with its demonstration of GTP partner FFS Refiners (FFS), hosted a field visit event on May 7, 2024. Over 50 representatives from the investment, technical, regulatory, and gas users’ industries attended the event on-site to see the gas generator rigged up and witness flaring from four of the team of production wells known as the Korhaan cluster.
As part of the company’s non-binding memorandum of understanding and intention to co-develop and co-fund gas production fields in South Africa, the company worked alongside and shared costs with FFS to complete the demonstration of GTP. With the proof-of-concept GTP completed, the parties intend to progress in their collaboration to develop an LNG production field, with FFS having an existing relationship with the micro-LNG containerized production group Galileo Technologies.
The successful GTP demonstration primes the company’s plans to expand the Korhaan cluster of 5 wells to develop an LNG production cluster of approximately 25 more wells as part of its joint venture with the IDC.
Kinetiko CEO, Nick de Blocq, commented: “We have spent the last few months working hard to demonstrate the Company’s ability to generate power from our natural gas at its Amersfoort project in Mpumalanga. We obtained respected, professional engineering and equipment suppliers to support this project and we are absolutely thrilled to have become the pioneers of onshore Gas to Power (GTP) from a local, conventional source, which represents another significant milestone for the Company, establishing it as a proven solution within the energy mix planned to alleviate South Africa’s energy crisis.”
For more information along with images see the Kinetiko news release here.
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