Glen Grimes has enjoyed a lengthy and a successful career in the energy sector in southeast Saskatchewan and elsewhere.聽聽
Grimes was born in 1946 to Jack and Jean Grimes in Lampman. He was the eldest of seven children, six boys and one girl.
Grimes attended Lampman School. In 1963 he took a nine-month course in electrical construction at Saskatchewan Technical Institute in Moose Jaw. Afterwards he went to work for Bouchard Electric in Estevan.
He left Bouchard Electric for the big money in the oilpatch, working on a drilling rig for Commonwealth Drilling. He was roughnecking for $1.50 an hour. Grimes worked on drilling rigs for the next two years for different drilling companies, depending on which companies were working at the time.
In the spring of 1967, after an extended road ban, Grimes made a career change and went to work for a power line contractor, building a transmission power line from Estevan to Tantalon for a new potash mine that was 小蓝视频 built there. Powerline work took him all over Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon and the Northwest Territories.
In 1970, he went to work for Calgary Power in Drayton Valley, Alta., where he was involved in constructing and maintaining the power grid in the Drayton Valley-Lodgepole oilfield.
The following year, he transferred to Edmonton and was in charge of maintenance on all transmission lines north of Red Deer. This position involved extensive time in helicopters patrolling power lines from Red Deer to north of Edmonton on the power grid.
Over the next five years, he logged over one thousand hours as a patrolman in helicopters patrolling these lines.
In 1972, Grimes married Bev Stark from lnnisfail, Alta. They purchased their first home in St. Albert, where Bev pursued her career as a registered nurse.
Their son Michael was born in St. Albert in 1975, and in 1976, they moved back to Lampman where they started up Petro Care Electric. They operated that firm through the 1970s and 1980s, specializing in gas plant construction and maintenance. Dome Petroleum was their main customer.
Daughter Alenna was born in 1979.
In 1980, along with a partner, Grimes started up Gold West Wireline, a downhole electric line wireline business. In the late 1980s this was sold to Computalog.
During these years they also operated a farm that would be small by today鈥檚 standards.
In 1990, after dissolving their electrical business Grimes went to work for SaskPower as assistant district operator in Lampman. The majority of his time was spent maintaining the power system in the Lampman-Frobisher-Stoughton oilfield.
In 1998, Grimes started working on an idea he had researched over several years. That was to process the natural gas that was 小蓝视频 flared off in southeast Saskatchewan.
He hired Darcy Engineering in 1999 out of Calgary to design a small gas plant that would process approximately 2.5 million cubic feet of sour high liquid flare gas in the Kisbey area.
After getting the initial budget and a list of used equipment that could be used for this facility, he went to work finding investors for this project. That turned out to be the fastest easiest part of the whole project.
Up until that time, southeast Saskatchewan had few gas plants besides the larger Steelman and Nottingham plants.
In the spring of 2000, he began construction on this facility. Start-up began in August with 小蓝视频 in full operation by early September of that year. Grimes continued to operate this plant until it was sold to a joint venture of SaskEnergy and Atco Midstream in November of 2007.
Afterwards, the Grimes family retired to Kenosee Lake, where they enjoy golfing in the summer and spending their winters in Arizona. Their two children live in Calgary and both of their families work in the oilfield.
Grimes was enshrined as a 小蓝视频east Saskatchewan legend at the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show in Weyburn in June.
