Oil & Gas

In its second update to the 2021 Canadian Oilfield Services Activity Forecast, released Thursday, the Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC) has revised the number of wells drilled (rig released) across Canada for 2021 to 3,600 wells.

A new company in Estevan has proven to be popular with the oilpatch since it opened, thanks to the services it offers. Prairie Pride Fishing, owned by Mike Zohner and Josh Brown, opened on March 1.

Premier Scott Moe and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum have signed a memorandum of understanding to vaccinate essential workers who are transporting goods across the Canada-U.S. border.

Saskatchewan is now officially home to the largest helium purification facility in Canada. Located near Battle Creek in the province's southwest, the new $32 million facility, owned and operated by North American Helium Inc.

The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) has carefully considered the federal government’s 2021 budget and its implications for the RMs in the province.

The Government of Saskatchewan's first subsurface mineral Crown disposition public offering of the 2021-22 fiscal year was held on April 19, and raised $2,448,936.17 in revenue for the province.

With over half of farm safety incidents happening between April and June, SaskPower is reminding farmers to take the extra time to “Look up and live” while working around overhead power lines. It could prevent serious injury or death.

The Government of Saskatchewan's first subsurface mineral Crown disposition public offering of the 2021-22 fiscal year was held on April 19, and raised $2,448,936 in revenue for the province.

The seeding plans are made and the equipment is being prepared for the start of planting of the 2021 crops, and the final piece of the puzzle was the rain and wet snow which fell on the southeast region on April 11-13.

The premiers of Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Ontario and Alberta joined virtually to release a study by power utilities in three partner provinces and to formally welcome Alberta as a signatory to the small modular reactor (SMR) memorandum of underst