Developing dependable power with integrated carbon capture.
Valverde works with industrial energy operators to assess and develop natural-gas power projects that integrate oxy-fuel generation, facility electrification and carbon management. We bring together technical and commercial partners to evaluate what a viable project requires at your site.
Three ways to begin a conversation
Choose the path that matches your decision. Each one leads to a short, structured first step rather than a generic sales call.
Assess an industrial facility
You operate a gas-processing plant, compressor station or field with material power demand and an emissions problem. Find out whether the site fits before committing engineering time.
Request a Project Fit Review →Explore a power-supply opportunity
You need dependable capacity for a utility, industrial or large-load requirement. Discuss net capacity, schedule, availability and contracting route before anything is promised.
Start a power-requirements discussion →Discuss a development partnership
You supply engineering, oxygen, storage, equipment or capital and want a defined role with clear interfaces in a real project pipeline.
Arrange a partner qualification meeting →Facilities where the pieces can line up
Valverde’s development focus is natural-gas processing and selected upstream and midstream operations, where power demand, gas supply and a plausible carbon destination can be assessed together. A good candidate site usually has:
- A material power, operating or emissions problem that an operating sponsor owns
- Sufficient electrical load, or grid-connected export potential, to justify generation on site
- A characterised fuel source — pipeline gas, low-BTU gas or a CO₂-rich return stream
- A credible route for the captured CO₂: geological storage, an existing pipeline or enhanced oil recovery
- The ability to fund the next stage of development work
The hard part is not the burner
An integrated project has to reconcile facility requirements, fuel, oxygen supply, generation, carbon conditioning, storage, offtake, financing interfaces and operating responsibilities. Each is straightforward on its own; together they decide whether a project can be built.
Valverde’s role is to develop that whole project: qualify the site, scope the feasibility work, bring in the right technical and commercial partners, allocate responsibilities and carry the project through defined gates to a financeable decision.
This is Valverde’s development proposition. It is substantiated through named responsibilities, partner roles and milestone records on each project page — not asserted as a proven advantage.
Alberta gas-plant decarbonization
Valverde is working with a Calgary-based oil and gas producer on one of its larger natural-gas processing plants in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. The proposed project uses pipeline gas to generate zero-emission electricity for plant operations, converts natural-gas-driven compression and generation to electric drive, adds an appropriately sized air separation unit, and compresses the captured CO₂ for sequestration. Surplus electricity would be sold into the Alberta grid.
The project page sets out the facility problem, Valverde’s responsibility, what has been completed, what remains outstanding and the next decision — with every figure labelled as a design target, estimate or measured result.
- Facility
- Natural-gas processing plant, Alberta (host not disclosed)
- Valverde role
- Project developer and prospective equity partner
- Scope
- Oxy-fuel generation · compressor electrification · ASU · CO₂ compression
- Carbon destination
- Geological sequestration design intent
- Capacity basis
- Not publicly disclosed
- Next milestone
- To be confirmed by management verify
Oxy-fuel generation, as part of a complete system
Valverde holds a master licence from Clean Energy Systems (CES) for its oxy-fuel combustion technology. Burning fuel gas in oxygen rather than air produces an exhaust of steam and CO₂ with no nitrogen to separate — which is what makes a high-purity CO₂ stream available for compression and storage without a conventional post-combustion capture plant.
The technology page explains the system boundaries, what CES has demonstrated, what remains to be integrated at a specific site, and how each published number should be read.
How it works and what is provenAny hydrocarbon gas
Designed to combust pipeline gas, low-BTU gas and CO₂-contaminated return streams. Tested composition ranges are site-specific. supplier data
Capture-ready exhaust
Combustion products are steam and CO₂; after condensing, the CO₂ stream is at a purity suited to compression and storage. design basis
Dispatchable output
Continuous generation that can complement intermittent renewables, subject to maintenance, outage and interconnection planning. design basis
Small footprint
Compact generation designed to respect existing surface facilities and scale to the load from roughly 10 MW to 100 MW. supplier data
From a first conversation to a funded project
Each stage buys a specific decision. Nothing is promised before the work that supports it has been done.
Project Fit Review
A structured qualification conversation based on a small amount of non-confidential information. You receive a short written outcome: promising, viable after named prerequisites, or outside current criteria.
Scoped feasibility
A defined, funded assessment of technical and commercial viability: integration scope, load and gas assumptions, outage plan, carbon pathway, cost basis and downside cases.
Development agreement
Responsibilities, milestones, funding and governance allocated across site control, engineering, equipment, oxygen, fuel, carbon transport and storage, permitting, offtake and financing.
Investment and execution gates
Detailed engineering and an investment decision proceed only when the required evidence and binding commitments are in place.
People who have built, financed and operated carbon assets
Valverde was founded by former Denbury Resources executives with decades of experience in CO₂ operations, enhanced oil recovery, midstream commercial structuring, power marketing and capital markets. The board brings Canadian institutional-investment experience.
The technology is licensed from and developed by Clean Energy Systems of Rancho Cordova, California, which is also a Valverde shareholder. The 2023 Hestia pre-FEED consortium brought MISC Berhad and Aker Solutions into the project work.
CO₂ operations at scale
Leadership from Denbury Resources, a NYSE-listed operator built around CO₂ enhanced oil recovery and CO₂ pipeline infrastructure.
Don Valley, UK
Through 2CO, the team engineered a complete carbon-capture project at a UK coal plant with North Sea storage. Historical experience, not a Valverde asset.
Clean Energy Systems
Patented oxy-fuel combustor, 25 professional engineers, master licence conveyed to Valverde for defined North American applications.
MISC · Aker Solutions
Participants in the 2023 Hestia pre-FEED for two North American oxy-fuel power projects. Current participation to be reconfirmed. verify
Two resources before we talk
What makes a facility suitable
The six conditions Valverde qualifies against — customer problem, technical fit, carbon pathway, decision ownership, development funding and timing — and what to have ready for a first conversation.
Read the qualification criteria →What is proven, and what is not yet
How to read every capture-rate, cost and fuel-flexibility statement on this site: the boundary, the comparison, the operating condition and whether it is a target or a result.
Read the evidence register →Discuss your project
Tell us about the facility or requirement. You will hear from a named person within two business days with a first view on fit and what would come next.