Clean Electric Power for Texas Datacenters

Industry

Infrastructure/Energy

Company Type

Power/Upstream Oil & Gas

Location

U.S. – Texas

Size

$498 Million

Investment Type

Equity/Debt
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For additional information, please contact:
Tina Vital | Managing Director
(917) 432-8474

OVERVIEW

GTherm is seeking +/-$498 million (Phase 1 and 2; excluding $11.3 million from prior investments) to construct an off-grid gas-fired power generation facility to provide clean electricity to datacenters in Texas.

 

  • Phase 1 ($20 million) – site acquisition of Big Foot (oil) Field in Frio County, Texas (30 miles Southwest of San Antonio); Phase 2 ($370 million) – construction of GPOWER1 750 MW gas-fired power generation facility using commercially proven technologies
  • Phase 3 ($163 million) – development of Big Foot (oil) wells; development & testing of proprietary NetZeroNow® EOR technologies; over 30 U.S. and international patents
  • Diversified revenue streams – power generation; datacenter site & utility leases; enhanced oil production using Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR); and carbon & tax credits (including 45Q)
  • Feedstock and offtakes – feedstock LOI in-place for natural gas from local pipelines; offtake LOI in-place for power generated
  • Management has extensive experience in developing and commercializing new industrial and energy technologies
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NetZeroNow® – Clean Electric Power Benefits

Clean power generation to datacenters, crops/greenhouses, upstream oil & gas production, and/or sale to power grid.

  • Environmentally compliant – reduces waste heat and GHG emissions using GTherm NetZeroNow® proprietary technology; ESG/EPA compliant
  • Off-grid – no distribution/transmission line losses
  • Fast and modular deployment – scalable design (“plug & play”) design
  • Multiple fuel feedstocks – conventional fossil (oil, natural gas, coal) and renewable (solar, wind, nuclear, geothermal, and municipal solid waste)
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NetZeroNow® – Upstream Oil & Gas Benefits  

Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) using GTherm NetZeroNow® proprietary waste heat, carbon sequestration, and wave oscillation technologies.

  • Harvests stranded oil and enhances oil production from mature and underperforming wells
  • Lowers drilling costs using GTherm’s “5-Spot” strategy
  • Lowers production/lifting costs using GTherm’s proprietary EOR technology
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Opportunity – Demand for U.S. Power Generation Climbs on New Datacenters 

Strong demand for power generation is being driven by the rapid expansion of U.S. datacenter demand reflecting increased data processing, especially for AI and cloud computing.

  • Large-scale datacenter developments are needed to meet immense demand for data processing – characterized by significant land area, massive building size and power capacity
  • Texas data center market is booming – Dallas-Fort Worth and Abilene areas being key U.S. locations
  • Several large-scale projects are underway in Texas
    • Stargate Project – major AI infrastructure project involving OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle; first site in Abilene, Texas and aims to be a major hub for AI development
    • Dallas-Fort Worth – aims to be a significant hub for data centers – over 2,100 acres designated for new facilities
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Opportunity – New WTP Technologies Capture Waste Heat and GHG

Nearly three-quarters of all energy produced by humanity is squandered as waste heat – but new Waste-to-Power (WTP) technologies are emerging to capture and reuse this vast renewable resource.

  • Fossil fuels are major contributors to waste heat pollution and GHG emissions – which has led to negative environmental concerns such as global warming, weather changes and a variety of illnesses
  • Industrial, utilities, and transportation – largest source of waste heat with enormous potential to be converted to renewable power (WTP)
  • Landfills, waste incineration, and agricultural waste – emit methane and biogas which contribute to GHG emissions
  • Global WTP market is projected to climb to $25.7 billion in 2026 from $13.4 billion in 2021
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SOLUTION/STRATEGY

GPOWER1 uses GTherm NetZeroNow® technology to provide off-grid clean (zero-emissions) gas-fired electric power to datacenters in Texas.

  • Site acquisition – LOIs under negotiation for two ranches on the Big Foot Field property (GPOWER1 – about 500 acres; GPOWER2 – about 500 acres)
  • Facility design – LOI in-place (Sprung Solutions); engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) – LOI in-place (Elgin Power Solutions; completed Basic Engineering Design)
  • Permitting & Studies – Environmental Impact Study (upon funding); Power Plant Permit (upon funding)
  • Feedstock contracts – LOI in-place (Hub City Marketing) for natural gas from pipeline (sufficient for entire 750 MW generation), supplemented by GTherm (Big Foot Field)
  • Offtake power contracts – LOI in-place (250 MW with Teton Digital LLC – Bitcoin Datacenter)
  • Carbon credits & registry – LOI in-place (Renu Environmental)
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Datacenters – AI/Bitcoin

  • Location – Big Foot (oil) Field, Frio County, Texas (30 miles Southwest of San Antonio)
  • Site acquisition – LOIs under negotiation for acquisition of private ranches on the Big Foot property (GPOWER1 – about 500 acres; and GPOWER2 – about 500 acres)
  • Permitting – no building permit required for rural area; site registration required with Frio County
  • Architects – LOI in-place (Kirksey Architecture)
  • Facility Design & Construction – LOI in-place (Sprung Structures)
  • Building lease (including design & construction and power contract) – LOI in-place (Teton Digital LLC – Bitcoin Datacenter)
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Big Foot (oil) Field – Frio County, Texas

  • Location – Big Foot Field Property in Frio County, Texas (30 miles Southwest of San Antonio)
    • discovered January 1949 by Shell Oil Company
  • Leasehold – about 80% WI in 7,400 acres of mineral rights and 400 drilled wells (50% slated for GPOWER1 and 50% slated for GPOWER2)
  • Most prolific play in the Upper Cretaceous Olmos Formation
    • 52 million BOE has been produced, and 38 million additional BOE are Potentially Recoverable – as of August 2022
  • Proved Reserves 1,349,086 barrels (oil) – as of March 2021
    • PDP (Proved Developed Producing) 502,521 (oil) barrels; PDNP (Proved Developed Non-Producing) 414,232 (oil) barrels; PDNP/Behind Pipe 52,123 (oil) barrels; and PUD (Proved Undeveloped) 380,210 (oil) barrels
  • Operator – TBD; Drilling contractor – LOI (USR Drilling)
  • Offtake (oil) contract – LOI in-place (Shell STUSCO)
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GTherm OGP – Proprietary EOR Technologies

  • Step 1 – Development & testing of GTherm proprietary use of waste heat for EOR in oil wells
    • waste heat is captured from the exhaust of power generation for EOR in nearby oil wells
  • Step 2 – Use of available commercial EOR technologies
    • brine fluids are heated and re-injected back into the oil wells – eliminates need for costly disposal wells
    • one injection well and four production wells (“5 Spot”)
    • reduces the viscosity of the oil, thereby increasing the flow of oil to the surface
  • Step 3 – Testing & use of GTherm proprietary wave oscillation for EOR in oil wells
    • oscillating waves enhances the volumetric extraction of oil & gas from mature reservoirs
    • commercially proven in other non-oil applications
  • Step 4 – Testing & use of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS)
    • CO2 is captured from the gas-fired power generation exhaust by carbonating brine fluids
    • CO2 content by facility – gas-fired (3%-5% CO2); oil-fired (5%-12%); coal-fired (12-15%)
  • Step 5 – Testing & use of GTherm’s proprietary EOR technologies
    • CO2 flooding – currently available commercial EOR
    • CO2 flooding with hot carbonated brine – GTherm’s proprietary EOR technology further enhances oil production
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MANAGEMENT

Michael Joseph Parrella – Founder & Chief Executive Officer, GTherm, Inc

Entrepreneur with extensive executive management, systems and programming experience. Since founding GTherm, Inc in 2008, President & CEO of GTherm, Inc; GTherm Energy, Inc; GTherm Oscillator and Controls, LLC; Exotherm, Inc; and Exotex, Inc. Previously served as Chairman of Discount Power, Inc, an alternative energy company founded and later sold; President & COO of NCT Group, Inc (aka Noise Cancellation Technologies, Inc), a global leader in the development and engineering of noise and vibration control for industrial companies; and CEO at Decision Strategy, Inc, founded and later sold, which monetized an online transaction processor/relationship database invented by Parrella. Prior Chairman and CEO at Philon, Inc; Vice President of Software Development at Dyna Data, Inc; and Systems & Programming Manager at Bessemer Securities. Author of over 100 U.S. patents. Game Changer Award from the Connected Plant (2020); and Conference and the Acoustic Inventor of the Year Award from Discover Magazine. City College of New York (CCNY) – B.S. in Mathematics.

John Michael Vandy – President, GTherm, Inc

Over 30 years with over 22 years of executive management and marketing experience in the capital goods and renewable energy industries. Since 2013, President of GTherm, Inc and Member of Board; and since 2016, President of various GTherm subsidiaries (such as GTherm Energy, Inc, Exotherm, Inc, Exotex, Inc, and Aurillon, Inc). Prior President and COO of Doosan Infracore America Corp, the North American arm of the Korean-based conglomerate; Vice President – Product Support and Strategic Supply at Manitowoc Crane Company; and General Manager at HYPAC – Division of Terex Corp. Advisor and consultant to various firms, such as TAS Energy, Inc, and Parts International Network, LLC. Previously appointed to the U.S. Commercial Services District Export Council. Prior President, Member and Mentor at CEO Netweavers. Prior Co-Chairman-Parts & Services Committee for the Equipment Manufacturers Institute (EMI), and Chairman – Technical Skills Committee for the Associated Equipment Dealers (AED) Foundation. Westen Michigan University, B.A. in Business and Economics.

Ken Christie – President, GTherm OGP LLC

Over 43 years of project management experience for upstream, midstream and downstream energy projects worldwide. Since 2015, President of GTherm OGP LLC. Advisor and consultant for international upstream midstream and downstream energy projects. Previously served as Project Development Manager at Storm Ventures International (Tunisia); Project, Construction and Installation Manager at Pioneer Natural Resources (Tunisia); Installation Manager at Australian Worldwide Exploration; Installation Manager at ENI Petroleum; Installation Manager at Dominion Exploration & Production; Company Representative for PetroSA (South Africa) and Pioneer Natural Resources; Company Representative and Installation Manager for Mariner Energy; Company Representative for Compania De Servicios De Campeche SA De CV; Project Management Team for Pogo Producing Company; Technical Specialist for INTEC Engineering; Project Management Team for Pertamina. L-2 Certification in RT, AUT, MPI and UT Non-Destructive Testing. SAIT Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, 4 Year Technical Program in Communications Electronics, 2 Year Technical Program in Non-Destructive Testing, Welding Processes and Basic Metallurgy. Mohawk College, 1 Year Program in Non-Destructive and Welding Processes.

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FOOTNOTES:
Overview
(1) GTherm – CapTable – v2 250424
(2) GTherm – Summary of Patents – v1 250311

NetZeroNow – Upstream Oil & Gas Benefits
GTherm OGP – Proprietary EOR Technologies
(2) CIM Regina Technical Meeting – Laboratory Experiments on Pressure Pulse Flow Enhancement – v1 991001
(3) Elsevier – ScienceDirect – Seismic vibration for improved oil recovery – 200328
(4) GTherm – WIPO – Comprehensive Energy Systems – 114760 A3 – 230622
(5) GTherm – WIPO – Comprehensive Energy Systems – 114760 A2 – 230622
(6) GTherm – USPO – Receipt Provisional Patent Application – Oscillating Jet Pump System – 63-469633 – 230530
(7) GTherm – WIPO – System and Method of Using Oscillator to Create Pulsing Waves – 055781 A1 – 230406
(8) GTherm Energy Inc – USPO – Pulsing Pressure Waves Enhancing Oil Gas Extraction in a Reservoir – 10267128 B2 – 190423


Opportunity – Demand for U.S. Power Generation Climbs on New Datacenters
(9) GRealtor.com – AI Boom Could Spark a Land Rush in Texas – 2024
(10) The Texas Tribune – Data centers are booming in Texas – 250124
(11) FOX Television – ERCOTs latest projections show potential problems for Texas power grid by 2027 – 250213
(12) EIA – Today in Energy – Data centers and crypto currency mining in Texas drive strong power demand growth – 241003


Opportunity – New WTP Technologies Capture Waste Heat and GHG
(13) Modern Power Systems – Waste heat recovery market warms to ORC – August 2018
(14) IEA – Electricity Market Report – Jan 2022
(15) IREA/WSJ – Oct 29,2021https://www.wsj.com/video/series/wsj-explains/how-much-would-it-cost-to-reduce-global-warming-131-trillion-is-one-answer/7CDC8900-9FF0-4DF6-BD69-25A5FF5B02B5


Solution/Strategy
(16) GPOWER1 – TETON Digital LLC – LOI – Electricity Power 15-Year Lease – FULLY EXECUTED – 241111
(17) GTherm Darst Project Holding LLC – Teton Digital LLC – LOI Data Center Lease – FULLY EXECUTED – 230825
(18) GTherm – Hub City Marketing – Bigfoot Gas Supply Update – DP – 250304
(19) GTherm – Hub City Marketing – LOI for gas supply and marketing – v1 250223
(20) GTherm – Elgin Power Solutions – LOI for turnkey power system services – signed PB – v1 250304
(21) Facility design – LOI in-place (Sprung)
(22) GTherm NetZeroNow – Renu Environmental – EMAIL – Carbon Registry – DR – 230620
(23) GTherm – Renu Environmental – LOI for Carbon Credit Generation Project Development – FULLY EXECUTED – v1 230630


Datacenters – AI/Bitcoin
(24) GPOWERGTherm – Kirksey Architecture – LOI for Data Center Design – v1 250221
GTherm – Sprung Structures – Quotation for Stressed Membrane Structure – signed PS – 221012
(25) GPOWER1 – TETON Digital LLC – LOI – Electricity Power 15-Year Lease – FULLY EXECUTED – 241111
(26) GTherm Darst Project Holding LLC – Teton Digital LLC – LOI Data Center Lease – FULLY EXECUTED – 230825


Big Foot (oil) Field – Frio County, Texas
(27) GPOWERGTherm – DESMD X LLC – Exhibit B1 – Executive Summary – August 2022
(28) DESMD X LLC – Engineering Report Reserves and Economics – 210308
(29) GTherm – Shell STUSCO – LOI Bid for production – Bigfoot area of Frio County – signed SB – v1 231019
(30) GTherm – GPOWER1 – GPOWER2 – DESMD X – MOU Amendment – FULLY EXECUTED – 240321
(31) GTherm – GPOWER1 – GPOWER2 – DESMD X – MOU Amendment – FULLY EXECUTED – 240302
(32) GTherm – GPOWER1 – GPOWER2 – DESMD X – MOU Amendment – FULLY EXECUTED – 231119
(33) DESMD X LLC – List of Leases and Wells – 230818
(34) GTherm – USR Drilling – EMAIL – Engineering and Drilling Support – 250428


SPECIFIC RISKS

Financial models and other supporting information regarding historical data, hypothetical target returns, contextual analysis, and other pertinent matters will be made available to prospective investors upon request. There is no guarantee of success, and there is a potential for loss of your investment.

Risks related to early-stage company

  • Limited financial operating history, limited assets, and cash flows

Risks related to liquidity

  • Insufficient capital to acquire/develop projects

Risks related to operations

  • Higher-than-expected operating costs, unexpected equipment / supply chain bottlenecks

Risks related to the market

  • Slower-than-expected acceptance and adoption of GTherm’s technology; decline in economic demand could negatively impact prices and demand, and reduce expected returns on investment

Risks related to technology

  • Infringement on patents; existing and/or new entrants, some with deep pockets and global operations, could develop alternative technologies and expand to compete in GTherm’s markets

Risks related to key persons

  • Expertise is concentrated in a few key executives; expansion will require finding experienced executives, engineers and operators to fill open new positions

Risks related to the regulation and politics

  • Local, state and/or federal government permits must be in-place for facilities and production; new and/or change in legislation could change in regulation could negatively impact operations and/or costs

Risks related to capital markets and private securities

  • Private securities are speculative, illiquid, and carry a high degree of risk – including loss of the entire investment

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