About Colt Engineering
Creative People With Innovative Solutions Striving to be North America's "Engineering Contractor of Choice for Clients and Staff".
For over 34 years, Colt Engineering Corporation has excelled as a multi-discipline engineering contractor in the design of hydrocarbon process facilities in Canada and the USA. Colt specializes in the design of conventional oil and gas production / processing facilities and oil sands plants. Colt has extensive experience in the handling, treating and transportation of sour oil and gas production, as well as heavy oil and bitumen production. Colt has particularly strong capabilities in both desert and arctic climates.
In addition to detailed engineering design, Colt undertakes all aspects of project development including feasibility studies, process selection and optimization, project capital and operating cost estimates, procurement, expediting, shop inspection, project and construction management, field inspection, commissioning and start-up.
Colt is the largest Canadian engineering contractor focused exclusively on the hydrocarbon industry and executes over 2.0 billion dollars of projects annually. Colt has over 4600 staff in Canada, with offices in Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Sarnia, and Anchorage, Alaska.
On February 7, 2007 Colt announced it has been acquired by WorleyParsons, a global leader in engineering, procurement and construction. This merger of operations accelerates Colt's advancement into the top tier of global professional services firms and broadens the range industries into which Colt can offer service.
About Frank Nolte, Chief Process Engineer.
Frank was born and raised in the Morinville, Alberta area. Upon graduation with a B.Sc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta, Frank worked in natural gas processing for Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas in Calgary and in process engineering software development with DB Robinson & Associates in Edmonton, prior to joining Colt Engineering as a process design engineer in 1997.
At this time Frank is the Chief Process Engineer for Colt WorleyParsons Edmonton Division.
