Oilfield equipment blasting around Medicine Hat: skids, separators and lease gear

Medicine Hat has been gas country since before it was a city, and the lease equipment scattered across the county shows it. Skids, separators, tanks and piping that have sat out in prairie weather for years eventually need their coatings stripped and replaced.

Why lease equipment coatings fail

• UV and heat breaking down the film on the sunny side.
• Freeze-thaw working water under chips and edges.
• Standing moisture on skid bases, where snow melts and sits.
• Prep that was never right the first time — the most common cause of all, covered in when a coating fails, it is almost never the paint.

Blasting it where it sits

Pulling equipment to a shop means trucking and downtime. The rig is self-contained, so we work on the lease or the yard. Wet blasting keeps dust down where other equipment or crews are nearby. Containment and cleanup are part of the job — spent media collected and removed.

Surface preparation is not cleaning. It changes the surface so the next coating system holds.

Matching the standard

Your coating datasheet will call for a level of cleanliness and a surface profile. We match media and pressure to the steel and to that specification — see SP-6, SP-10 and the standards your coating is asking for. Rust inhibitor in the water holds the surface between blast and coat.

What we do regularly

• Tanks, skids, separators and lease equipment.
• Structural steel, stairways, grating and walkways.
• Service truck bodies and picker frames.
• Roll-off bins and waste containers.

The same work applies through Cypress County, the County of Forty Mile and up toward Brooks. Batching several pieces on one site or one route keeps mobilisation down.