Pipeline News

Weyburn – Way out at the western edge of the southeast Saskatchewan oilfield, southwest of Lake Alma, is an industrial landfill known as GAP Disposal.

There is an increasingly common thread I’m hearing from oilfield service companies: we are seeing the start of a labour shortage. Talk to pretty much anyone in the service rig business, and you’ll hear it’s hard to find workers.

But a flame does go inside

Virden, Man. – Diversification has been an important strategy for Virden, Man.-based Safety Source and its sister company, Discovery Safety. Safety Source focuses on retail safety equipment sales and safety training.

Virden, Man. – In the back corner of Fontana’s Trucking north Virden yard, three men steadily processed tubing as it was inspected.

Overall energy minister for most of the last decade

It’s kind of a solar-powered flashlight, too

Virden, Man. – When you drive into Precise Well Servicing Inc.’s yard south of Virden, Man., you’d be forgiven if you thought it was a decent sized farm.

Virden, Man. – Thirty-three-year-old CD Oilwell Servicing Ltd., based in Virden, Man. is looking for workers, according to Adam Gonty, field supervisor.

On July 19, The Financial Post’s Claudia Cattaneo wrote a piece entitled “Saskatchewan advantage means oil activity surges while Alberta lags.” Maybe we missed something while on summer holidays.