Weekend Watch: The maddening reality of oilfield units
It’s an entertaining watch, the deeper you get into it. I found out, for instance, why barrels are abbreviated “bbl.” I never would have guessed that was the reason.
Sask Gov’t seeks public feedback in Occupational Health and Safety regulations review
The Government of Saskatchewan is reviewing The Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, 2020 and is seeking feedback from stakeholders and the public, according to an Oct. 8 press release.
CEO of new Major Projects Office skirts MPs’ questions about tanker ban
The head of Canada’s new Major Projects Office and her staff sidestepped MPs’ questions Thursday about whether she has special powers to skirt the West Coast tanker ban.
B.C.’s Dix says it is ‘Canadian’ to disagree with Alberta Premier Smith over pipeline
VICTORIA — British Columbia’s Energy Minister Adrian Dix has dismissed the latest push by Alberta’s premier for an oil pipeline to the West Coast, saying the “definition of being Canadian isn’t to agree with everything Danielle Smith says.”
Alberta Premier in Ottawa to push for federal partnership on energy projects
OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is in Ottawa this week, following up on her now week-old pledge to help fund the development of a proposal for a new oil pipeline to Canada’s West Coast.
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Carney pitches Keystone XL restart in exchange for progress on aluminum, steel
Wait, wasn’t Keystone XL killed by Obama? Then a Montana Judge? Then Biden?
Lithium in SK, Part 39: Province defines lithium royalty structure, based on potash, not oil
One of the big questions around the development of a new lithium industry in Saskatchewan is just what will be the royalty structure? Will it be based on oil and gas extraction, or potash?
Pipeline Online Podcast, Ep. 19: Grant Greenslade on junior oil producers and southwest Sask
Grant Greenslade has spent many years in the junior producer space, first with a family oil business in southwest Saskatchewan and then through the first three Spartan companies. He's also a former councillor and mayor of Shaunavon, providing a southwest Sask...
Oil and gas driller Precision Drilling promotes Carey Ford to chief executive
Precision Drilling Corp. says chief financial officer Carey Ford has been promoted to president and chief executive of the company.
CIBC analysts applaud Alberta efforts to spur new pipeline, but doubt its success
Analysts at CIBC say they’re doubtful Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s plan to spur development of a West Coast bitumen pipeline will succeed.
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Western Canada Marine Response Corporation exercised off Vancouver Island last month
On this day, Hecate Sentinel is on its way to join other vessels from Sidney, as well as from Beecher Bay west of Victoria and Nanaimo for a daylong exercise to contain an imaginary oil spill.
Massive fire erupts at Chevron refinery just outside of Los Angeles
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — A fire broke out at a Chevron oil refinery just outside Los Angeles on Thursday night, sending towering flames into the air that were visible for miles.
Quebec LNG proposal not of ‘national interest’ at this point, says federal minister
Federal Energy Minister Tim Hodgson says it’s too early to say whether a liquefied natural gas facility pitched for Quebec meets the bar of being in the national interest.
Weekend Watch: The Age of Depopulation With Nicholas Eberstadt
What will the energy industry and landscape look like in a world where population decline is almost universal? Think about that as you watch this fascinating discussion about the reality no one is talking about – population decline.
Smith says Alberta will be proponent for Pacific pipeline, for now
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith really, really wants to build another oil pipeline to the northern BC coast. British Columbia Premier David Eby apparently really, really does not want that to happen. Meanwhile Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe previously said he thinks the most important pipeline project is that very same pipeline to the Pacific, not that any Saskatchewan oil would find its way into it, but such it would free up room in other pipelines for more Saskatchewan oil.
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Brian Zinchuk on Evan Bray Show: Imperial Oil layoffs, oil prices, drilling, multilaterals, mineral rights and more
On Oct. 1, Pipeline Online editor and owner Brian Zinchuk appeared on the CJME/CKOM Evan Bray Show for a monthly checkup on the energy industry. The conversation included Imperial Oil layoffs, oil prices, drilling, multilaterals, mineral rights, nuclear power generation, the recent Southeast Tech Hub ICED Rural 2025 conference in Estevan and upcoming SIMSA conference in Regina.
MEG Energy says Glass Lewis recommends shareholders back Cenovus offer
MEG Energy Corp. says a second major independent proxy advisory firm has recommended its shareholders back a takeover offer for the company by Cenovus Energy Inc.
Alberta ‘on notice’ Coastal B.C. nations opposed to pipeline proposal
The head of a group representing First Nations along British Columbia’s coast says they will not support a new pipeline proposed by Alberta and nothing can be done to change that.
Alberta re-enters pipeline arena, plans to propose new oil pipeline to B.C. coast
Premier Danielle Smith says Alberta is committing $14 million to a West Coast oil pipeline do-over that hinges on First Nations getting on board early and Ottawa reversing a tanker ban that would make such a project unworkable on the northern B.C. coast.
Cenovus receives MER approvals for new wells and upgrading work at four thermal properties in NW Sask
Cenovus is planning on taking two steps forward after one big step backward this year in northwest Saskatchewan, announcing plants to “improve and expand four existing thermal facilities in the region.” This comes after a blowout in May at its Rush Lake 2 facility put both Rush Lake 1 and 2 out of commission for the foreseeable future.
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Imperial job cuts come amid wider tech-enabled efficiency push in energy industry
Imperial Oil’s plans to cut 20 per cent of its workforce by the end of 2027 comes as part of a wider trend of industry job cuts as producers look to boost efficiencies amid lower oil prices and the availability of new technology.
Sask Highway Patrol adding six weigh scale officers at Estevan and Swift Current
Every trucker’s favourite part of the job just got some reinforcement at two key weigh stations in the oilpatch.
34 Drilling rigs at work in Saskatchewan on Monday
Late September has been warm, dry and windy in southern Saskatchewan – so there’s no excuse for not drilling because of rain. So what does the rig count look like?
Legal challenges claim B.C. natural gas pipeline hasn’t been ‘substantially started’
Petitions filed in B.C. Supreme Court last week allege the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission natural gas pipeline project has been given the green-light by the B.C. Environment Ministry to go ahead without requiring a new environmental assessment certificate, which was first granted in 2014.
The ‘next big thing’ is big multi-lateral wells – but the impact is devastating to many oilfield services
Editor’s note: My stomach has been tied up in knots for months as to whether I should write this story. In Saskatchewan, most of the oilfield jobs are in the oilfield services. And I’ve had more conversations than I can count as to “why things are slow.” It’s not just oil prices, which aren’t great. There is a major technological change that is happening that is impacting much of the industry. I finally decided people need to know what is actually going on in as fulsome way as possible.