The inventors of the EnviroDrive™ system recognized the need for a solution to the problem in the production of oil and gas of exhausting Green Houses Gases (GHG) to atmosphere. The exhausting of these gases is as a result of operating conventional gas driven chemical injection pumps and glycol pumping units at oil and gas well sites.

Over a period of four years this product has proceeded through the prototype and field testing stages to the production and field installation stage. Fifty-four units have been installed and tested in Alberta and Wyoming.

EnviroDrive Inc., was aware of an emissions venting problem in the production of oil and gas and that no alternatives to venting and flaring were available. EnviroDrive Inc. was approached by the progressive thinking Phillips Petroleum Ltd. (now Apache Canada Ltd.) and together agreed to develop a prototype of a natural gas driven mechanical device capable of driving chemical injection pumps. British Petroleum provided a test field for EnviroDrive™ systems in the U.S.A. and Apache provided a test field for EnviroDrive™ systems in Canada. Both test fields provided a different set of variables for the EnviroDrive™ system and as with any new device, some difficulties arose. Each difficulty was addressed and problems solved in developing the EnviroDrive™ system to where it now performs as a virtually maintenance free and emission free natural gas driven mechanical device capable of driving chemical injection pumps, low-pressure and high-pressure glycol circulation pumps, generators and air compressors.