Oil & Gas

The Saskatchewan Trucking Association (STA) continues to be a champion for the industry in Saskatchewan.

It hasn’t been easy, but Prairie Hotshot has had a pretty good three years in business. The company opened in August 2017 and recently celebrated its three-year anniversary.

Warm, dry weather has helped southeast area farmers to make progress in harvest operations, with 21 per cent of the crops in the bins in the Weyburn region, and 25 per cent of the crops in the Lake Alma-Radville-Minton area.

Enbridge’s newly constructed Line 3 replacement pipeline (L3RP) runs for 1,070 kilometres in Canada, from Hardisty, Alta., to the Manitoba-North Dakota border near Gretna.

With harvest underway, please be aware of slower moving farm machinery on provincial highways.

Weyburn resident Melissa Carson was surprised and shocked when she found out she was to receive $5,000 from Conexus Credit Union from their Kindness Capital Fund, in recognition of her project to feed truckers during the lockdown imposed during the C

Perfect hot, dry weather allowed most farmers to make a start to their harvesting in southeast Saskatchwean, with five per cent of crops combined, and six per cent of the crops swathed or ready to be straight-cut.

Bonanza Drilling Inc., a drilling rig company based out of Brooks, Alta., pleaded guilty to one count under The Occupational Health and Safety Regulations in Rosetown Provincial Court on Aug. 13.

Despite extremely sluggish drilling activity in Saskatchewan’s oilpatch, the Aug. 11 Crown land sale for petroleum and natural gas rights brought in $2.4 million.

(Photo by Bill Allen) Despite extremely sluggish drilling activity in Saskatchewan’s oilpatch, the Aug. 11 Crown land sale for petroleum and natural gas rights brought in $2.4 million.