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SaskEnergy, SaskPower expand Commercial Space and Water Heating Rebate
Interested in cutting your shop’s energy bills? SaskEnergy, in collaboration with SaskPower, is expanding its popular Commercial Space and Water Heating Rebate…
CAOEC disappointed in federal budget, calls it lost opportunity to support energy workers
The Canadian Association of Energy Contractors (CAOEC) said it is disappointed with the federal budget, referring to it as a lost opportunity…
Saskatchewan’s Top 10 oil producers in 2023
Saskatchewan’s Top 10 oil producing companies account for 84 per cent of all oil production in this province.
Lithium Bank sells Estevan area land to unnamed buyer
LithiumBank announced on April 1 that it sold its lands in the Estevan area for $15 million, minus the $8 million paid when the company put down a non-refundable deposit…
Are multi-laterals the next big thing in oil?
Revolutions like horizontal drilling have universally benefitted the industry to the point where next to no vertical wells are drilled anymore.
Crescent Point Energy to change name to Veren Inc.
The company that grew through the drill bit and over 30 acquisitions to at one point the largest oil producer in Saskatchewan is changing its name.
Surge surges to the top of Saskatchewan’s Top 10 conventional wells in January
When your company is named “Surge Energy” and you drill the top conventional well in Saskatchewan, the headline kind of writes itself.
Did you know oil and gas is Saskatchewan’s largest industry, as measured by GDP?
You’d be forgiven if you thought agriculture was Saskatchewan’s largest industry.
Brian Crossman: I’m trying, I really am
I am. I’m really, really trying. I had a bit of a rough year health-wise, which of course leads to over-thinking your place in the world.
No Valentines date for rig hand
Don’t expect a drilling rig hand to make it to a Valentines date, because that’s the time of year they can make the most money.
Just as Alberta has had minimal wind power, so, too has Saskatchewan
Wind power generation in Alberta has flatlined twice in as many days, and as weather patterns typically flow from west to east…
Lithium in SK: Primacy of rights, revisited
Saskatchewan is facing a curious and perhaps perplexing dilemma. In addition to oil and gas, it is now seeing development of helium and soon lithium production, too.
Shell signs offtake agreement to buy LNG from second BC project
One of the world’s supermajor petroleum production companies is already heavily involved with Canada’s first liquified natural gas (LNG) project…
Nova Scotia puts bullet in natural gas industry
Nova Scotia and federal government put final bullet in the head of still-twitching offshore gas play.
Sask Research Council and North West College team up
On Nov. 17, the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) and North West College announced a new, innovative plastic welding pilot program…
Only eight rigs drilling for oil in southeast Saskatchewan: drilling rig report
Drilling activity in Saskatchewan on Nov. 21 was notably lower in three regions, and up a bit in the fourth.
Post-construction field work complete for Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline project
The official record shows that construction of the Canadian portion of Enbridge’s Line 3 Replacement Program (L3RP) was completed more than four years ago…
SaskPower signs master services agreement with Ontario Power Generation for SMR development
Finding your way through the incredibly complex path of licensing and building nuclear reactors is not for the faint of heart.
Sask government takes action on home heating carbon tax
On Oct. 30, Premier Scott Moe said Saskatchewan residents wouldn’t pay the carbon tax on natural gas home heating if those using home heating oil…
Decent oil prices but many rigs not drilling
Even though the past year has seen relatively decent oil prices, as high as US$94 per barrel a few weeks ago, Saskatchewan has not seen a related increase in drilling activity.