Viking Pump Canada: 100 Years of Excellence

Viking Pump Canada has been serving customers across the Canadian provinces for over 100 years. First opened in 1924 as an additional manufacturing center for US-based Viking Pump, Viking Pump Canada has developed into an important source of positive displacement pump expertise.

Through the years, Viking Pump Canada has had different ownership - but was ultimately reacquired by Viking Pump in 1992. Now with a strong focus on high quality distribution and service, Viking Pump Canada is accelerating growth for the entire Viking Pump business.

Slowing Down Your Pump's Motor with a Variable Frequency Drive (VFD)

In a positive displacement pump, each rotation of the shaft and gears carries a fixed volume of liquid from the supply tank to the downstream piping. When paired with an AC induction motor, speed and flow are very consistent. But what if you want to CHANGE the flow? In this episode of the Pump Report, Chad discusses controlling your positive displacement pump's motor with a variable frequency drive - or VFD.

Learn more about Viking Pump's Latest Pipeline Injection Pump

Viking Pump's GB-425 Series™ is a robust and rebuildable external gear pump that is specifically designed for pipeline injection. 

Viking Pump is proud to bring you the new GB-425 Series™ pipeline injection pump. This robust, rebuildable external gear pump is specifically designed to handle the pressures, flow requirements, and abrasives that make crude oil pipeline injection one of the the most difficult applications.

Pipeline Injection Pumps from Viking Pump

Viking Pump has been leading the way in critical application pumps for over 110 years - and one of the most difficult - yet essential - applications is crude oil pipeline injection. We are proud to introduce the new GB-425 Series™.


In 2017, Viking Pump came on the pipeline injection scene with the GP-425 Series™ external gear pump - specifically designed for the rigorous pressures and flow rates required - and took the oil and gas industry by storm.

But we never stopped researching…

...never stopped designing…

...never stopped testing...

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7 Essential Tools for Pump Repair

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Like any job, you need the proper tools to do it well – and the same is true for repairing or servicing positive displacement gear pumps. Below are helpful hand tools that Viking's pump experts recommend having ready for… read more.

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7 Things You Want to Know about Flanged Ports, but are Too Afraid to Ask

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Flange standards used on Viking pumps have been in place for over a century so EVERYONE should be experts on this now…right? It turns out not so much. There are various standards and various design differences in each standard. AND the standards have evolved over the years, leading some to use obsolete terms which only compounds the confusion. The following should help clear up some of this confusion as well as give you a resource to help answer questions for others.

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PUMP CAVITATION: THE SYMPTOMS, CAUSE, DIAGNOSIS, AND CURE

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Customers don’t ask me to listen to quiet pumps. This is symptom #1 of a cavitating pump. The pump is loud. Descriptors like “growly”, “rumbling”, or “gravelly” are used to describe the atypically loud sound coming from the pump.

“Does it always sound like this?” I ask.

“No, it was fine in the fall, but it’s been loud all winter.”