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, meaning three months of no drilling, before planned resumption of drilling in the new year. This, despite oil...
It’s a hell of a lot easier to dig through dirt than Canadian Shield granite There’s been talk of an energy corridor running from Port McMurray to Fort Nelson on Hudson Bay. However, it all depends on Manitoba’s election on Tuesday, Oct. 3. Everyone knows...
REGINA – If your company wants in on Saskatchewan’s soon-to-be developing nuclear power generation industry, you should probably get in your truck early Wednesday morning and show up at the Regina Delta Hotel. That’s because the Saskatchewan Industrial & Mining...
Straighten out RM headaches, cut red tape and build out a CO2-EOR strategy As I noted on Sept. 28, there’s a substantial amount of concern in the oilpatch about the lack of activity despite high oil prices. As one person told me, “When oil was $40 a couple...
And how much of this lays at the Saskatchewan Party government’s feet? Oil prices are now US$94 a barrel, and yet oil industry activity levels in Saskatchewan are more like when it was US$40 a barrel. A lot of people in the industry I’ve spoken to in recent days...
