The Oilfield articles in this section are courtesy of Brian Zinchuk and Pipeline Online. Pipeline Online is Saskatchewan’s Energy News, focusing not only on oil and gas, but the related industries that make use of the same people, companies, equipment and expertise.
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As part of SaskPower’s commitment to energy efficiency, the utility has launched the new Commercial Energy Optimization Program (CEOP)…
In recent months, there have been more rigs drilling for helium in southwest Saskatchewan than there have been drilling for oil.
The Government of Saskatchewan’s Crown petroleum and natural gas public offering, held on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, has raised $15,454,748 in revenue for the province…
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…
After more than four years of construction and at least $34 billion in costs, the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project is nearly complete.
North American Helium Inc. (NAH) on March 19 announced several updates supporting the continued growth of its business, including plans…
There was a poll put out on March 11 by Mainstreet Research suggesting the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre could nearly wipe the Liberals, NDP and Bloc…
When your company is named “Surge Energy” and you drill the top conventional well in Saskatchewan, the headline kind of writes itself.
Buying the operating interest in the Weyburn Unit appears to have worked out well for Whitecap.
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.
The Government of Saskatchewan's Crown petroleum and natural gas public offering, held on Tuesday, February 6, 2024, has brought in $10,042,112.71 for the province.
Wind power generation in Alberta has flatlined twice in as many days, and as weather patterns typically flow from west to east, Saskatchewan has seen similar conditions.
Up until now, Saskatchewan’s emerging lithium play has been strictly a junior affair. That changed in January, as one of Canada’s older mining firms, Denison Mines…
The last week in January has seen a notable uptick in drilling in Saskatchewan compared to December, with 44 drilling rigs active on Jan. 24.
Del Mondor of Weyburn is the 2024 Saskatchewan Oilman of the Year, while former premier Brad Wall and Myron M. Stadnyk will join him on stage as inductees to the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Hall of Fame.
It usually takes a few days for the drilling industry to wake up from the holiday break, and this year is no exception.
In 1999-2000, the Alliance Pipeline was built from Fort St. John to the outskirts of Chicago, cutting right across Saskatchewan along the way.
Well isn’t that just peachy? Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservative government teamed up with the federal Liberal government to put a bullet in the head of the province’s natural gas industry…
On Nov. 17, the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) and North West College announced a new, innovative plastic welding pilot program…
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…
Finding your way through the incredibly complex path of licensing and building nuclear reactors is not for the faint of heart.
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…
The whirlwind around the federal carbon tax, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paused for home heating oil for three years, but no other forms of home heating…
Members from all parties in the Saskatchewan Legislature unanimously approved a motion, brought forward by the NDP, to “scrap the carbon tax on everything for everyone.”
Late in the afternoon of Oct. 26, the staunch federal Liberal policy of climate change priorities conquers all just cracked.
Long before the “truckers convoy” protested COVID-19 pandemic measures in Ottawa, a series of convoys in and from Saskatchewan and Alberta paved the way, as it were.
The Government of Saskatchewan’s Crown petroleum and natural gas public offering, held on Tuesday, October 3, 2023, has raised $11,049,883 for the province.
Does it look like the end of December? No. But several oil companies working in Saskatchewan have shut down their drilling programs until the end of the year…