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Regina Refinery at 90 and Devine’s Upgraders, Part 1: The two heavy oil upgraders built by the Grant Devine government had a tough opening act, but became anchors for Saskatchewan’s current economy

  Editor’s note: In late June, Federated Co-operatives Limited will be celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Regina Refinery Complex. In September, 2022, Pipeline Online published a six-part series on the two Grant Devine-era heavy oil upgraders, and...

How a strong wind day led to coal exceeding natural gas power generation on June 8

… and how all this ties into increasing oil production while leading to nuclear   Editor’s note: I’ve been sitting on this story since April, waiting for the time to be right. There’s lot going on in SaskPower’s and Saskatchewan’s power futures, and how wind,...

Windless Wednesday in Alberta as output falls to 0.1 per cent, while Nova Scotia pitches powering a quarter of the country with wind

  In the same week Nova Scotia is proposing building enough wind power generation to handle 27 per cent of Canada’s electricity needs, Alberta saw next to now power come from its fleet of 45 wind farms throughout most of Wednesday, June 4. It was a windless...

Reaching for a Million, Part 4: Brian Zinchuk: A five point plan for Saskatchewan to hit a million barrels per day

CALGARY- During the October, 2024, provincial election campaign Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said he’d like to eventually see Saskatchewan reach one million barrels of oil production per day. That dramatically exceeds his own government’s stated goal of...

UPDATED: Tennessee Valley Authority submits construction permit application for SMR, the same design SaskPower is considering

  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ― In the space two weeks, two major announcements have been made regarding the deployment of the same small modular reactor (SMR) SaskPower is considering building near Estevan. On May 8, Ontario Power Generation gave the green light to build...

Reaching for a million (or 600,000?), Part 3: Low Productivity and Reactivation Oil Well Program announced

  REGINA – All oilwells decline in production to the point where, eventually, they produce next to nothing and their future is an eventual abandonment and reclamation. If they’re not a liability on the books, they soon will be. But what if you could breathe new...
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