Oilfield world record to be set in Alaska:
Red Deer company designs massive trailer-mounted hot oil unit for client in United States
 

Alaskan oilfields will soon be sites to show off made-in-Red Deer $1 million world record.

GenTex Oilfield Manufacturing Inc. has just built the world’s largest trailer mounted hot oil unit.

Officials from an American company are in the city this week making the final checks before the device is shipped to the U.S Arctic Circle at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.

“We’ve already had another call from Alaska. The plan is to build one more,” said Garett Cupples, president of GenTex.

Cupples said the hot oil unit is more then twenty meters long, three meters wide, and more than four meters. He said the device is worth more then $1 million Cdn.

Hot oil units are used to pump chemicals down oil and gas wells, as well as pipelines.

Cupples said there are truck- mounted hot oil units in the oilfield manufacturing market but they are only half the size of this creation.

He said his Alaskan client, Hot Oil Services, wants more crude oil storage at the site, adding his unit has more power than other models to handle the greater volumes.

“This unit has a larger high-pressure pump,” said Cupples. “It will pump almost four times as fast as other pumps used in Canada for hot oiling.”

He said GenTex officials will be in Alaska next month to commission the massive hot oil unit.

- Written by Johnnie Bachusky