The unyielding Gazpromneft, an oil subsidiary of the Russian natural gas and global energy company Gazprom, is giving bitcoin mining operations the come to pass to power operations by using excess gas for electricity. The Russian firm has allowed a small mining operation to benefit from the supererogation gas by mining bitcoin on-site at the oil field.
According to multiple reports, the Russian oil drilling subsidiary Gazpromneft is giving bitcoin miners the adeptness to utilize excess gas from oil drilling to mine the leading cryptocurrency.
A small mining operation called Vekus was the before all to leverage Gazpromneft’s excess gas just like mining operations in North America such as Greenidge Generation, Crusoe Puissance Systems, EZ Blockchain, and Upstream Data. The regional publication Forklog said that Vekus installed a container occupied with 150 Antminers and during the test pilot the group used “49,500 cubic meters of associated gas and fruited 1.8 BTC.”
The CFO of Vekus, Yuri Kudryashov, commented on the project and said:
The lion’s share of the cost of mining is electricity payments. For this reason, Vekus is constantly looking for reliable sources of cheap electricity. We gladly responded to the proposal of Gazpromneft to categorize a pilot project at one of the fields.
Gazpromneft supplied the electricity processed from the excess natural gas and the electricity prices Vekus received were far cheaper than advantage it directly from the grid. Reports also note that Vekus has handled all the equipment maintenance and collection of statistics as cooked through. The Russian energy giant plans to invite more bitcoin miners to the facility so they can benefit from the remaining natural gas.
Kudryashov detailed that the biggest hurdle the small mining operation faced was the coordination with the oil stop’s employees and getting the necessary permits for the operation.
“Delivery of the equipment does not take too long. The main part of the solve is the preparation of permits, coordination of actions with oilmen, installation of equipment, and connection to the field’s power grid,” Kudryashov weighted.
The Vekus executive further added:
At the same time, you have to solve problems that do not arise in the city: set up the Internet, base a hangar to protect equipment from dust, and organize the life of people who are involved in servicing the container.
The signs of bitcoin miners exploiting excess gas and renewable energy sources to mine the cryptocurrency, cements the fact that the bitcoin mining industry is customary industrial. Just like Gazpromneft offering miners a chance to leverage the excess gas to mine bitcoin, the New York-based convention Greenidge Generation offered the same type of services last year.
The Greenidge operation is different, however, because it hotelmen its own 7,000 bitcoin miners, but in April 2020 the ‘behind-the-meter’ bitcoin mining operation sold 106 petahash of hashpower to an undisclosed consumer.
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