I've spent time at a lot of wellsites. You get out there, you see what the operation actually looks like beyond the spreadsheets and quarterly reports. And what strikes me most is how openly wasteful the whole thing is. Nobody hides it. It's just the way it works.
You've got your frac fleet on location. Multiple diesel generators running continuously. Backup generators sitting there. All of them burning fuel. Day in, day out. It's loud, it's dirty, and it costs a fortune. And while those generators are running, right next to them is gas coming out of the well that's being vented or flared because there's no way to use it.
The scale of this is what caught my attention. One conversation with a fleet operator put the numbers in front of me. 175 active frac fleets in the United States. Each one burning 5 to 5.5 million gallons of diesel per year. That's not a typo. Per year. Per fleet.
The math is simple and it's brutal
Multiply that out. 5.2 million gallons per frac fleet. Current diesel prices sitting around $3 a gallon on average. That's $15.6 million in annual fuel costs per fleet just in direct diesel consumption. Divide that across the 175 active fleets in the U.S. and you're at nearly $2.7 billion a year in diesel for frac operations alone.
But here's what people actually care about: the per-site number. A single wellsite operation running one frac fleet for a year burns through diesel at a rate that costs about $240,000 annually. That's not capex. That's just burning fuel.
For a typical operator managing multiple wellsites, that's millions of dollars a year in a line item that nobody can really do anything about. It's the cost of doing business. The generators have to run. The fuel gets bought. The invoices get paid.
Flaring is the bigger story anyway
The diesel is expensive, but the flaring is wasteful at a different level. 151 billion cubic meters of natural gas flared globally in 2024. Let me repeat that. Billion. Cubic. Meters. Gas that came out of the ground, that has value, that could be used, just getting burned off because there's no infrastructure to capture it.
In the U.S. oil fields, a lot of that gas is "stranded" or "associated" gas. It comes up with the oil. You can't leave it downhole. And if you don't have a pipeline or processing facility, you flare it. It's been the standard play for decades.
But the EPA isn't letting that slide anymore. New methane rules took effect that require an 80% reduction in methane emissions from oil and gas operations. Methane from flaring is a big part of that target. Operators have to figure out how to capture it, use it, or reduce it. There's no more "it's just how we do it" in this business.
So you've got a scenario where frac operators are burning diesel at $240K per year per site while simultaneously flaring gas that could power those same generators. It's the definition of having your solution sitting right there and ignoring it.
The regulatory pressure is real
The EPA's methane rules aren't suggestions. They come with penalties. States are implementing them. Companies that don't comply are facing fines and operational shutdowns. This isn't a compliance checkbox anymore. It's a business imperative.
And it's not just the U.S. Canada's got rules. Europe's got rules. International lenders won't finance projects that don't have a methane mitigation strategy. The window for ignoring this closed a while ago.
Operators know it. They're scrambling to figure out how to flip the script from "how do we flare less" to "how do we use what we're already producing."
Multi-fuel generation changes the equation
Here's where it gets interesting. What if you could take the gas that's currently being flared, run it through a compact, efficient on-site power platform, and power your entire frac fleet? You eliminate the diesel costs. You solve the flaring problem. You hit the EPA's methane targets. And you're actually doing something productive with a resource that's currently getting wasted.
The technical barrier used to be real. Frac equipment is tough on generators. Vibration, dust, aggressive duty cycles. Traditional gensets didn't hold up. And moving a heavy generator from site to site added costs and logistics headaches.
A compact, multi-fuel on-site platform could change that equation by using an approved local fuel configuration in a form factor designed for deployment and redeployment. Reliability, fuel quality, emissions, and site integration would need to be validated for frac duty.
This is why we built the DOR
I started thinking about what a frac operator actually needs: reliable power, compatibility with an approved site fuel, and equipment that can move between wellsites without becoming a project in itself.
The grid has traditionally determined where and when businesses can grow. Immedia Power changes that. We combine our unique power-generation system with Power OS, our embedded AI layer, to create the DOR, a new distributed power platform that gives space-constrained sites the on-site power they need to run and scale without waiting on the grid.
The DOR (Distributed On-demand Resource) is a distributed power platform designed for applications including on-site oil-and-gas power. It targets 200 kW continuous output and supports natural gas, CNG, LPG, biofuel, and hydrogen blends. Any stranded-gas or flare-recovery configuration would require fuel-quality validation, emissions and safety review, permitting, and site engineering.
The package targets 15 square feet and 700 kg, and the electrical architecture is designed for standalone and grid-parallel modes. Installation timing and engineering requirements are site-specific.
The engineering targets include 69 dBA at five meters and a compact package designed for movement between approved sites. Wellsite acoustic performance and duty-cycle reliability remain to be validated.
For a suitable site, qualified associated gas could reduce diesel consumption and create strong economics. The model must be built from that site's gas composition, treatment needs, operating profile, emissions requirements, and diesel costs.
A future pilot would test fuel suitability, duty-cycle performance, emissions, safety, and economics before broader deployment. If you're managing frac operations and want to evaluate the opportunity, let's talk.