Your local branchPrime Boiler Services · Edmonton, AB1807 5 St., Nisku
Prime Boiler Services has worked on steam and heating boilers across Western Canada since 1991. Our Edmonton team repairs and certifies boilers under an ABSA-approved quality program, and supplies parts and rental boilers to Fort McMurray plants.
Our Edmonton team works out of the Prime yard in Nisku, and Fort McMurray is part of its service area. Emergency field service comes with mobile repair equipment. Once the boiler is back on line, we look for the cause of the failure.
We plan scheduled work around your outage windows: recertifications with or without ABSA inspections, combustion tuning, refractory repair on boilers from 25 HP to 5,000 HP, and water treatment visits. Rental boilers ship up Highway 63 too, so backup steam or heat can be built into a planned shutdown.
Fort McMurray is covered by our Edmonton team
Steam drives the Wood Buffalo economy. Oil sands extraction and in-situ production use it at large scale. The camps, hospital, college and recreation centres that support them rely on heating plants that run through a subarctic winter.
Extraction and upgrading use large volumes of steam and hot water. We repair utility boilers, pressure vessels and B31.3 piping, and supply rental steam for turnarounds.
SAGD plants depend on steam generation and tight water treatment. We support the boilers, deaerators, blowdown and feedwater equipment, and the water treatment programs around them.
Camps need space heat and domestic hot water all winter. We maintain heating boilers, tune burners and bring in a rental boiler when a camp’s plant goes down in deep cold.
Hospitals use steam and hot water for heating, sterilization and humidification. We schedule maintenance around clinical needs and can arrange backup rental steam.
Municipal buildings, colleges and large recreation centres run hot water and pool heating plants. We handle maintenance, recertification, and glycol and closed-loop water treatment.
Maintenance programs cover combustion analysis, low-water cutoff and flame safeguard testing, safety valve checks, refractory inspection and water treatment. Visits include the pumps, piping and controls around the boiler, and we set their frequency around your ABSA inspection interval and winter load.
Maintenance from EdmontonOur technicians repair firetube and watertube boilers, burners and controls, including Autoflame, Fireye, Honeywell, Lamtec and Siemens. Pressure-part repairs and work on deaerators, blowdown separators and feedwater tanks are done under our ABSA certificate of authorization.
Repair servicesPrime holds the largest inventory of boiler parts in Western Canada: safety valves, gaskets, refractory, fuel nozzles, controls, steam traps and water treatment products. Order 24 hours a day for delivery anywhere in Canada or pickup in Nisku.
Parts & suppliesRental boilers run from 30 BHP diesel firetubes to 400–800 BHP watertubes and a 2,200 HP Nebraska watertube, plus superheated steam trailers and glycol heaters. Plants use them for turnarounds, outages, pipeline hydrotesting and tank cleaning.
Rental boilers & fleetIn Alberta, boilers and pressure vessels fall under ABSA – The Pressure Equipment Safety Authority, which administers the Safety Codes Act and the Pressure Equipment Safety Regulation. Owners must keep each boiler on a valid certificate of inspection permit and follow ABSA inspection intervals. Our repairs and alterations run under Prime’s ABSA-approved quality control system, and we coordinate with ABSA when an inspection or hydrotest is needed.
Fort McMurray has a subarctic climate with long winters and cold snaps below -35 °C. At those temperatures a tripped burner can let condensate lines, feedwater and glycol loops start to freeze quickly. Ahead of winter, a maintenance visit or system audit can catch combustion and control problems, and we can line up a rental boiler as standby.
ABSA
ABSA – The Pressure Equipment Safety Authority
Along with Fort McMurray, our team serves Anzac, Fort McKay, Gregoire Lake Estates, Saprae Creek, Janvier and Conklin, and industrial sites across the Wood Buffalo region.
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Technicians from our Edmonton team in Nisku. Call 780-955-7787, our 24/7 line, to confirm timing.
ABSA – The Pressure Equipment Safety Authority. It issues certificates of inspection permit and certifies power engineers and pressure welders. We handle repairs and recertifications under ABSA Certificate of Authorization Permit AQP-21130 and work with ABSA inspectors when they need to attend.
Yes. Our Edmonton team covers the communities around Fort McMurray, from Anzac and Fort McKay to Janvier and Conklin, along with industrial sites outside town.
Yes. Our team works in oil and gas, power and petrochemical plants and takes part in ISNetworld, ComplyWorks, Avetta, Contractor Check and Cognibox. We repair utility boilers, pressure vessels, and B31.1 and B31.3 piping, run water treatment programs and supply rental steam for turnarounds and outages.
Our fleet runs from 30 BHP up to a 2,200 HP watertube, in diesel, natural gas and dual fuel. Superheated steam trailers and glycol heaters are also available, and units come skid-, trailer- or truck-mounted. Tell us your load, pressure and fuel.
Call Prime Boiler Services at 780-955-7787 for emergency repair, scheduled maintenance, parts or a rental boiler for your Fort McMurray plant.
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