A generator on a Pembina field lease rarely feeds just one thing. Rental distribution panels and transfer switches carry its output to the pumpjacks, the heat trace, the instrument shack and the trailer, each on its own breaker, across Brazeau County and the country around Drayton Valley.
On a producing field the generator is the easy part to picture. Whether the site runs depends on how its output is divided: which loads share a circuit, how far each run goes, and what happens when line power comes back. Around Drayton Valley, four kinds of job raise that question most.
Several pumpjacks, a line heater and the controls on one pad, all drawing from a single generator. A panel near the wellheads puts each motor on its own breaker, so a fault on one pump trips that pump and the rest of the pad keeps producing.
Oilfield production power →When the power line into a battery is rebuilt or knocked out, the transfer pumps, the instrumentation and the heat trace still have to run. A transfer switch puts those loads on the rental set for the length of the outage and hands them back once the line is energised again.
Emergency power distribution →Tie-ins and electrical upgrades at a compressor station or gas facility are planned to a shutdown window. With the switch and panel in place before the window opens, the auxiliary loads move to temporary power on the hour planned, not after a morning hunting for the right connector.
Prime power and paralleling →Oilfield service companies around Drayton Valley sometimes need a building carried through a new service entrance or a main panel replacement. A rental panel feeds the bays, the air compressor and the office while the electrician works on the permanent gear.
Commercial generator rentals →This list is read from the rental inventory as the page loads, so anything already out on a lease isn't shown. Open a card for its ratings. Cable is supplied cut to the runs you measure, and if the set's voltage doesn't match the equipment it feeds, a rental transformer is added to the package.
Need the generator too? Generator rentals in Drayton Valley covers the gas and diesel sets for Pembina field work. For sites elsewhere in the province, see power distribution rentals across Alberta.
Distribution for a Drayton Valley job is put together at the NexSource yard in Red Deer, beside the generator it will hang off. The panel is chosen to suit that set's output, and the cable goes on the truck already cut to the runs the site measured.
So the lease gets one delivery with everything needed to energise: the set, the panel, a transfer switch where there is one, and the cable. If a winter job needs heat as well, flameless heaters ride on the same order and burn their own fuel, leaving the generator for the electrical loads.
Once it is running, field service can be reached 24/7 on (403) 887-4567.
Where the set and the panel may stand on a lease comes from the operator's spacing rules and the area classification around the wellheads and tanks. Send those with the site plan: the cable runs are measured from where the equipment is allowed to sit, not from where it would be handiest.
| The location | The legal land location, and whether the lease road will take a loaded truck at that time of year. |
| The source | A rental set, a generator already on the lease or a utility drop — its voltage, phase and the largest breaker it can serve. |
| The loads | Each motor by horsepower, then heaters, heat trace, instrumentation and any trailers. A plain list is enough to start. |
| The runs | Distances from where the set is allowed to sit to each load, measured along the route the cable will actually take. |
| The changeover | Whether loads move between the line and the set once for a planned shutdown, or must switch over on their own if the line drops. |
| The dates | The shutdown or tie-in window if there is one, and how long the site expects to stay on temporary power. |
Only have motor nameplates? The power calculators turn horsepower into kW, and the amperage calculator takes it from there to amps.
The places Drayton Valley-area distribution goes to most. Anywhere else around the field gets the same treatment: the land location, the load list and the dates are what the quote is built from.
Often, if it is sized for the starts and not only the running load. A motor pulls several times its running current for the moment it starts, so the set and the panel are chosen around the largest pumpjack starting while everything else is already turning. Send the horsepower of each motor and the quote names the set, the panel and the breaker for each one.
That comes down to whether anyone will be there when the power changes. For a planned outage with an operator on site, a manual switch does the job. If the battery has to ride through an unplanned line failure by itself, it needs an automatic one. Both are in the rental fleet, and the quote says which suits the site.
A licensed electrician, under a permit. Some operators have a contractor they always use for this; others ask for it to be arranged with the rental. Either works — say which when you request the quote, and it goes into the scope before a delivery date is fixed.
Distribution that sits outdoors from freeze-up to breakup needs enclosures rated for outdoor service; the fleet's manual transfer switch is EEMAC 3R for that reason. Tell us which months the job spans and the coldest the site is likely to see, so the panel, the switch and the cable are chosen for those conditions.
Terms run from a short tie-in window to months on a producing site. The term is quoted along with everything else, so if the job might run longer than planned, say so at the start and the quote can show both.
There is no posted rate, because the number depends on the lease: how big the panel is, how many breakers it needs, how much cable, whether a transfer switch goes in and for how long. The written quote prices it together with the generator and the trip from Red Deer, and working out what the site needs is free.
Send the land location, the load list, the measured runs and the dates. One written quote prices the panel, any transfer switch, the cable and delivery from Red Deer, with a generator alongside if the lease needs one.
