29,100+
Project Professionals
30+
Years of
Experience
WorleyParsons has been delivering
engineering and project management
services to the hydrocarbons industry
for over 30 years.
Our capability and expertise spans all oil
and gas extraction and processing facility
types. We have been involved with these
technologies from their original concepts
through to the advanced technologies
apparent today.
3,000+
Heavy Oil, Thermal &
Oil Sands Projects
in Canada
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His partners are well known in the oilpatch.
The principle is Bill Bowlen, whose family has
been involved in the drilling sector of the oil
business for nearly 70 years. He is the brother of Pat Bowlen, the owner of the Denver
Broncos of the National football League. The
other partner is Mel kassian, whose family
has been involved in oilfield services for several decades. Regent has 90 employees in
Alberta, as well as 30 in the Sultanate of
Oman, where it has a manufacturing facility.
Regent’s transverse-rolled slotted-liner
system utilizes what is called a “keystone” or
tapered slot, which allows the sand to form a
stable bridge around each slot. The slot is designed to self-clean. In addition, Regent uses
a patented cleaning system that uses heat to
singe off any burrs or other obstructions.
“Canadian companies are
the best in the world in
sand control.”
Laurie Venning, Vice-President,
Regent Energy Group
Perhaps the firm’s single most important
innovation was the development of a new
slotting machine that uses a highly automated motion-control system to slot the pipe
with higher precision.
“We can control the slot width, so we can
custom-design a system for any kind of res-
ervoir. We actively engineer our product.”
Venning says the vast majority of SAGD
and CSS projects now utilize slotted liners
manufactured by either Regent or its main
competitor, G&L Slotco. There are also wells
that incorporate wire-wrap screens rather
than slotted liners for sand control.
HORIzONTAL DRILLING ADVANCES
BEG fOR BET TER SAND CONTROL
The advance of directional and horizon-
tal drilling, along with the combination of
thermal methods of production, unlocked
in the last part of the 20th century the bil-
lions of barrels of oilsands resources too
deep for surface mining. However, those
technology milestones brought with them
