North Portal– Grant Olson grew up in North Battleford, where his father was the Massey dealer. Now he’s the operations superintendent for Steel Reef Infrastructure Corp. The company is currently expanding its new North Portal gas plant and will soon be building another gas plant near Alameda.
Olson left North Battleford in 1984 and went to Lloydminster. “That’s when I started in the oilfield. I was 21,” he said.
There he worked in oilfield maintenance for a few years.
“I started operating in 1989 in the Provost area. I spent five years on a crew truck.”
He operated from 1989 to 2003, including a stint with Renaissance in southwest Saskatchewan, then went to Calgary with Viking Energy. “I was the production foreman for southern Alberta, from Stettler to the U.S. border, Highway 2 to the Saskatchewan border.”
Like many others in the oilpatch, his career then took him to work for “a few companies.” He ended up at Galleon Energy for 8.5 years as production manager. “Most of our work was in the Grande Prairie area,” Olson said.
In September 2014 he left Galleon and in December he joined Steel Reef.
Strathmore, Alta., is where he hangs his hat, but Olson added, “Saskatchewan’s still home.”
