Fuel Planning for Remote Completions
CNG Delivery for Frac Water Heating
Trucked compressed natural gas can supply frac heating when pipeline or field gas is unavailable. Complete Heat supplies and operates the heating equipment; the operator arranges CNG delivery directly or through a third-party fuel provider.
Discuss your fuel planNatural gas without a pipeline tie-in.
CNG delivery—sometimes called a virtual pipeline—moves compressed natural gas to the pad by trailer. It can give a remote completion access to natural gas economics without waiting for permanent infrastructure, provided the fuel supplier can support the required pressure, flow, storage and delivery cadence.
Remote pads
No usable field-gas source or pipeline connection is available before the completion starts.
Short programs
The schedule may not justify building permanent gas infrastructure for a limited heating window.
Fuel diversification
Tri-fuel heaters let the program move between natural gas, propane and diesel as conditions change.
Planned logistics
Trailer access, delivery timing and on-pad storage are coordinated before mobilization.
The heater must hold rated output on natural gas.
Complete Heat's tri-fuel superheaters deliver 32 million BTU at 97% heat transfer efficiency on natural gas, propane or diesel. That gives the completions team a heating platform that can use delivered CNG after decompression without accepting a fuel-change output penalty.
- 32M BTU rated output on natural gas
- 97% heat transfer efficiency
- Diesel and propane fallback capability
- Remote combustion, temperature and flow monitoring
- Non-pressurized water-heating system
- On-site operations support
Complete Heat does not sell or transport CNG.
We supply the frac water heating equipment and operators. The customer selects and contracts with its CNG supplier, and that supplier is responsible for fuel transport, storage, decompression and delivery conditions. We coordinate heater fuel requirements with the customer and its selected provider before the job.
A useful first call covers water volume, temperature rise, flow rate, location, program duration and the CNG supplier's expected pressure and flow. We then prepare a custom heating quote and flag any fuel-interface questions for the parties to resolve.
Compare the fuel plan before the equipment moves.
Start with the heater requirements and the delivery schedule, not a generic fuel-price assumption. Call Jason at 307-217-1494, or review our frac heaters, service and repair.
For a deeper planning discussion, read the original field note: when trucked gas pays off.