Your local branchPrime Boiler Services · Grande Prairie, AB3416 109 St., County of Grande Prairie No. 1
Prime Boiler Services has served plants across Western Canada since 1991. Our Grande Prairie team repairs, maintains, recertifies and rents steam and heating boilers for Fort St. John gas plants and health care facilities.
Fort St. John is part of our Grande Prairie team’s service area. We serve it from our branch in the County of Grande Prairie No. 1 along the Highway 43 and Alaska Highway (BC 97) route. Our technicians drive it for emergency calls and for planned shutdowns, inspections, start-ups and commissioning.
On an emergency call, the crew gets the boiler running first. Then we find the cause of the trip. When you need a temporary unit, we deliver rental boilers to Fort St. John sites.
Fort St. John is covered by our Grande Prairie team
Fort St. John is the service hub for BC’s Montney natural gas play, and gas processing plants account for much of the boiler work here. The hospital, the college campus and farm operations add heating loads that peak through the northern winter.
Montney gas plants use boilers for process heat, glycol heating and building heat. We service, repair and recertify them, and upgrade burners with low-NOx and O2 trim.
Fabrication and service companies in the gas fields use steam for vessel steaming, tank cleaning and hydrotesting. We rent them boilers and service the heating plants in their shops.
Hospitals depend on boilers for heat, hot water and sterilization steam. We maintain and repair those boilers along with their controls and low-water cutoffs.
Campus and school heating plants run hard through the long cold months. Scheduled maintenance, combustion tuning and water treatment keep those boilers efficient and in service.
The BC Peace grows most of the province’s grain. For farm and grain-handling sites that heat with boilers, we repair, maintain and supply parts for units over 400,000 BTU.
Maintenance programs scheduled around your operations: inspections, combustion analysis and tuning, low-water cutoff and flame safeguard testing, and water treatment for steam, closed-loop hot water and glycol systems. We also check feedwater, condensate and controls.
Maintenance from Grande PrairieEmergency repair, onsite diagnostics and troubleshooting, and refractory repair on boilers 25 HP to 5,000 HP. We repair boilers, pressure vessels, deaerators, feedwater tanks and blowdown separators. Our shop handles custom and pipe fabrication, and we prepare the recertification paperwork.
Repair servicesPrime holds the largest inventory of boiler parts in Western Canada: safety valves, gaskets, refractory, fuel nozzles, steam traps and controls from Autoflame, Fireye, Honeywell and Siemens. Order 24 hours a day. We deliver throughout Canada.
Parts & suppliesLow- and high-pressure rental boilers, from small firetubes to a 2,200 HP Nebraska watertube, plus a truck-mounted 400 BHP watertube with its own generator. Customers use them for plant turnarounds, outages, pipeline hydrotesting down to -40 °C and vessel steaming.
Rental boilers & fleetBoilers and pressure vessels in Fort St. John fall under Technical Safety BC (TSBC), which administers the Safety Standards Act and the Power Engineers, Boiler, Pressure Vessel and Refrigeration Safety Regulation. TSBC handles design registration, installation permits, certificates of inspection and licensing of contractors and power engineers. Our Boiler Class A licence covers repair and alteration in BC.
Winter lows here drop below -30 °C. In that cold, condensate and feedwater lines can freeze, cold combustion air throws off burner tuning, and standby units sit idle until the day they are needed. Book tune-ups and standby checks in the fall.
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Along with Fort St. John, our Grande Prairie team covers Taylor, Charlie Lake, Baldonnel, Cecil Lake, Hudson’s Hope and Wonowon on the Alaska Highway, and Dawson Creek on the way in.
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Call 780-933-8550. The line is answered 24/7, and we confirm an arrival time on the call. Fort St. John is about 2.5 hours from our Grande Prairie branch.
Technical Safety BC (TSBC) regulates boilers and pressure vessels in Fort St. John. Prime holds TSBC Boiler Class A licence LBP0046618 and Class A gas contractor licence LGA0100607 for boiler and gas work at Fort St. John sites.
Yes, gas plant work is core to Prime. In Alberta we restored a Tidewater Midstream glycol heating boiler after a Christmas Eve flame failure and supplied two 110,000 lb/hr superheated steam boilers for Canlin Energy’s Wildcat Hills Gas Plant. The same team covers Montney plants around Fort St. John.
Yes. Our Grande Prairie team covers Hudson’s Hope, Taylor and the other communities around Fort St. John for emergency repairs, scheduled maintenance, start-ups and recertifications.
Yes. We deliver skid- and trailer-mounted rental boilers in diesel, natural gas or dual fuel to Fort St. John sites for turnarounds, outages, pipeline hydrotesting and tank and vessel steaming.
Call 780-933-8550 for emergency repair, maintenance, parts or a rental boiler. Our Grande Prairie team serves Fort St. John and the BC Peace.
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